Solo duct cleaners: per-vent quotes that cover the truck, the drive, and the extras. Free, no signup.
All defaults below are editable starting points, not market rates.
15 min sanitize and 20 min dryer labor are priced into your true cost either way. Enter the fee you charge; 0 means you give it away.
Flat per-vent duct quotes die when the rig setup, the free add-ons, the truck-mount fuel, and the drive stay invisible. Start with Your bar: your target hourly rate, profit margin percent, minimum trip fee, and daily take-home goal. In The job card, pick a preset: Ranch, 2-story, or Condo. Each fills vents, returns, trunks, and quoted dollars per vent, all editable. Set minutes per vent, per return, and per trunk; the tool bakes in twenty minutes of rig connection and teardown on every job. In The leaks card, enter sanitize and dryer vent fees you charge; leave them at zero and the tool prices the giveaway labor anyway. Set drive minutes, miles, vehicle cost per mile, and truck-mount fuel plus wear per job. The breakdown shows vent labor, drive labor, free add-on labor, vehicle, chemicals, rig wear, true cost, and quoted revenue. The big number is the recommended dollars per vent: true cost plus margin, rounded to five dollars, never below your minimum. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING JOB. The gut check prices your old per-vent number, and the day planner counts jobs to your goal. Free, no signup, runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. A ranch preset at the defaults: $75 bar, 20 percent margin, 12 vents, 2 returns, 2 trunks, 6 minutes per vent, 10 per return, 20 per trunk, 40 drive minutes, 30 miles at $0.67 per mile, $18 rig fuel and wear. Vent labor is $190.00 for 152 minutes including setup, drive labor is $50.00, the vehicle is $20.10, and rig wear is $18.00, giving a true cost of $278.10. The recommended price is $30 per vent, $360 for the job, earning $119.34 per hour against a $75 bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $25 per vent gut quote earns $81.84 per hour and leaves $60 on the table against the recommendation. In the day planner, a $400 goal takes about 2.8 jobs and 9.6 hours.
Why does rig setup and teardown need its own line?
Twenty minutes of connecting and tearing down the truck-mount rig is real labor on every job. Spread over 12 vents it is nearly two minutes per vent before you touch a grille.
What happens when sanitize and dryer fees are zero?
The tool prices the giveaway anyway. Free add-on labor shows as its own breakdown line so you can see exactly what the upsell costs you when the customer never pays for it.
How does the recommended per-vent number work?
True cost plus your margin, rounded up to the next five dollars, never below your minimum trip fee. The rounded total divides back to the per-vent number on the screen.
Why does the verdict talk about coupon pricing?
The bait-and-switch coupon jobs in the trade underprice real rig work on purpose. The under-$25 per vent warning flags when your quote is drifting into bait-price territory.
Is this pricing advice or market data?
Neither. It is an arithmetic check on your own numbers. Defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.