New York, NY
PRESSURE WASHING / WINDOW CLEANING ESTIMATING.

## Pressure Washing Estimating in New York City New York City is not a typical pressure washing market. You are bidding on brownstones in Brooklyn, glass curtain-wall towers in Midtown, prewar limestone facades on the Upper West Side, and concrete sidewalks subject to NYC Administrative Code §16-123 (the sanitation code that mandates property owners keep 18 inches of sidewalk clear and clean). Each surface type carries a different price per square foot, a different risk profile, and a different conversation with the building super or property manager. If you are still building bids in a spreadsheet or quoting off the top of your head, you are leaving money on the table and burning time you do not have. ### What Makes NYC Different for Pressure Washing Companies **Surface diversity.** A single block in Park Slope might include brownstone stoop faces, painted brick, bluestone sidewalk pavers, and painted cast-iron railings. Your estimate needs line items that reflect each material, because the wrong PSI on a brownstone facade can cost you more than the job paid. Estimate.Pro lets you build a saved material cost workspace so your limestone, brick, and concrete rates are loaded before you arrive on site. **Water access and surcharges.** Many NYC jobs — especially high-rise window cleaning and facade work — require a water permit from DEP or coordination with building management for water tap access. That access cost belongs in your estimate, not in your margin. **Sidewalk shed and scaffolding context.** The city's Local Law 11 (FISP — Facade Inspection Safety Program) cycle drives a large share of facade cleaning work. Buildings on a FISP cycle often need cleaning before or after inspection. That is a specific, recurring demand segment you can price into template bids. **Window cleaning licensing.** New York State requires window cleaners working above the second floor to hold a Window Cleaner Certificate of Fitness (CoF F-89) issued by FDNY, in addition to general contractor registration. If you are doing high-rise work, those compliance costs and insurance riders are real line items. **Competition density.** New York City has one of the highest concentrations of pressure washing and window cleaning operators in the country. BAS (Building and Air Systems) contractors, janitorial firms, and standalone window cleaning companies all compete for the same commercial accounts. Your bid needs to look professional and arrive fast — a rough number texted two days later loses to a clean PDF sent the same afternoon. ### How Estimate.Pro Builds Your Bid You do a walkthrough — or you use the app's camera measurement tool to capture dimensions on-site. On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement gives you real square footage on facades and flat surfaces. Camera and photo measurements are marked as estimates so you always know what was verified in-person versus captured remotely. The app pulls that geometry into a scope-of-work automatically. You review the line items — surface type, linear footage of windows, square footage of sidewalk, number of stories — and the estimate is priced against your saved cost data. Median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid is 8 minutes. You send the estimate as a PDF or a live link. The client approves. On the Free tier, you pay 3% on payments processed through Stripe Connect. On Pro+ tiers, that platform fee drops to 0%. ### Pricing Tiers - **Free forever** — no credit card required, 3% payment processing fee - **Pro — $39/seat/month** — lower overhead per job, priority support - **Elite — $79/seat/month** — Stripe Connect invoicing exports, advanced workflow tools - **Crew — $399/month flat** — whole crew, unlimited seats, one fixed cost For a solo operator doing 15 to 20 jobs a month in the five boroughs, the Pro tier pays for itself on the first estimate you do not lose to a competitor who sent a cleaner bid faster. ### Built for 25 Trades, Including Yours Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Pressure washing and window cleaning share estimating logic with related trades — concrete cleaning, graffiti removal, soft-wash roofing — so if you do adjacent work, those scopes are already in the system. Start free. No credit card. Your first bid takes 8 minutes.