San Jose, CA
PRESSURE WASHING / WINDOW CLEANING ESTIMATING.

## Estimating Pressure Washing Jobs in San Jose San Jose sits at the edge of Silicon Valley, which means you're quoting a mix of commercial tech campuses, aging Willow Glen bungalows, and new-build tract housing in Berryessa and Evergreen. Each job type prices differently. A sprawling corporate courtyard in North San Jose needs different line items than a two-story stucco home in Almaden Valley with oxidation staining on the fascia. Estimate.Pro gives you a consistent process across all of them. Walk the property, let the AR measurement tool capture linear footage and surface area on supported devices, and get a sendable bid in 8 minutes. --- ## What Makes Pressure Washing Estimating Different Here **Water restrictions matter.** The Santa Clara Valley Water District enforces tiered conservation guidelines that can affect how you schedule jobs and what equipment you run. Clients in drought-restricted periods sometimes ask for low-flow or surface-cleaning-only methods. Your estimate needs to reflect the method, not just the footage. **Silicon Valley commercial accounts set a high bar.** Facilities managers at tech campuses expect line-item breakdowns, insurance certificates attached to the bid, and turnaround the same day. Showing up with a handwritten number on a torn notepad loses those contracts. Estimate.Pro produces a clean, itemized PDF you can send from the job site before you leave the parking lot. **Stucco is everywhere.** San Jose's housing stock skews heavily toward painted and unpainted stucco. Stucco pressure washing requires lower PSI settings and often a soft-wash chemical pre-treatment — that's a separate material cost line item from a standard concrete or brick surface. If you're not breaking it out, you're either undercharging or padding and losing bids to competitors who price it precisely. **Window cleaning add-ons close bigger tickets.** Bundling window cleaning with a post-construction or move-in pressure wash is common in San Jose's active real estate market. Estimate.Pro lets you add window cleaning line items — screen removal, track cleaning, hard water stain treatment — without building a second spreadsheet. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Your Crew 1. **Walkthrough capture.** Use AR measurement on a supported device to log surface dimensions live. On older phones or for quick drive-by bids, camera photos are flagged as estimates so the client knows the scope may adjust on-site. 2. **AI scope-of-work.** The app reads your measurements and generates a scope: surface type, square footage, recommended method (pressure wash vs. soft wash), chemical pre-treatment, window count if applicable. 3. **Priced estimate.** Your saved material cost workspace pulls in your chemical costs, equipment overhead, and labor rates. The estimate lands at your numbers, not a national average. 4. **Send it.** PDF or digital link, straight from the app. Clients can approve and pay via Stripe Connect if you're on the Elite tier — at $0 platform fee. --- ## Pricing That Fits a One-Truck or Multi-Crew Operation - **Free forever** — no credit card, no time limit. Enough to run real bids and see if the workflow fits. - **Pro at $39/seat/month** — full estimating, saved cost workspaces, 3% Stripe Connect fee on payments. - **Elite at $79/seat/month** — Stripe Connect at 0% platform fee, invoice exports, advanced workflows. - **Crew at $399/month flat** — covers your whole team, no per-seat math. A solo operator running 4-5 bids a week on the Free tier costs you nothing. A three-truck crew on Crew pricing is $133 per truck per month, and you close more contracts because your bids go out faster and look professional. --- ## Local Competition Is Real San Jose has a dense market for exterior cleaning services. You are competing against regional franchise operators, solo owner-operators who undercut on price, and larger commercial janitorial companies that bundle pressure washing into facility contracts. Speed and presentation win the middle market — homeowners and mid-size commercial accounts who want a contractor they can trust. An 8-minute bid turnaround is a real differentiator when the other guy takes three days to follow up. Estimate.Pro is built for the trades. No fluff, no dashboard bloat. You walk a job, you price it, you send it.