Price the job in front of you, not the easy one. Free, no signup.
Leave an add-on at zero if it is not on this job. The charge is what the customer pays; the minutes get priced into your time.
Every default here is a starting point, not a market claim. Set them to your real times and your real rate.
A flat price treats every dryer vent like the easy one: a short, straight run out a ground-level wall. Real jobs are not like that. A 25-foot run with three bends that exits through the roof takes twice the time, and the drive there and back is time you are not cleaning anything. This calculator prices the job in front of you. Pick where the vent exits, enter the length and bends, set the clog condition, add any extras like a bird guard or a hose replacement, then enter your own target hourly rate and drive time. It returns the quote that actually hits your rate, and it shows what your usual flat price really pays you per hour on a job like this one.
Every default is an editable starting point, not a claim about what the market charges. Time a few of your own jobs, replace the minutes-per-foot and minutes-per-bend numbers with your real ones, and the quotes get sharper fast. The tool runs entirely on your phone with no signup, and your numbers never leave the device.
Example only, using the defaults loaded above. A 25-foot vent, 3 bends, roof exit, standard clog, a $95 target hourly rate, 30 minutes of driving and 18 round-trip miles at $0.70 a mile. The cleaning math comes to about 90 minutes on site, about 120 minutes door to door. The calculator quotes $205 for the job, which works out to roughly $103 an hour once travel is covered. At a $129 flat price, the same job pays about $65 an hour, roughly $76 short of where the quote should be. Five jobs like that in a day is $1,025 quoted, or $645 at the flat price.
Because it takes longer. A roof exit means ladder work, clearing the cap from above, and more setup and teardown than walking up to a wall vent at ground level. The time difference is real, commonly half an hour or more, and a quote that ignores it quietly cuts your hourly rate.
A higher flat price fixes the hard jobs and overprices the easy ones, which are the jobs that book fastest and get you referrals. Pricing by length, bends, and exit location keeps the easy jobs sharp and the hard jobs worth doing.
Time your next five jobs from dryer pulled out to dryer pushed back, divide by the vent length, and average them. Do the same for bends. Your own numbers will beat any default, including the ones in this tool.
Yes. An hour of driving between two jobs is an hour you cannot bill anywhere else. If the quote does not cover it, your day rate drops even when every job price looks fine on its own.
They are slower work: compacted lint and nesting material take more passes and more cleanup. The heavy setting multiplies the cleaning time so the quote reflects it instead of absorbing it.