Bed bug heat pros: per-job quotes that price the whole heat day. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.
Heat hours = setup, the 4 to 8 hour run, temp monitoring, and teardown. Market guides commonly report $1 to $3 per sq ft for heat, with $1,000+ minimums on small jobs.
Per-room heat quotes die when the prep, the generator fuel, the heater wear, and the free re-heats stay invisible. Start with Your numbers: your target rate, margin percent, minimum job fee, and monthly take-home goal. In The job, pick a preset: 1 room, 2 rooms, Full apt, or Whole home. Each fills rooms, treatable square feet, on-site heat hours, and a quoted price, all editable. Heat hours cover setup, the run, temp monitoring, and teardown. In The leaks, tick you do the prep and set prep hours, generator fuel and power per job, heater and fan wear per job, and the percent of jobs needing free re-heats. Set round-trip drive and miles, vehicle cost per mile, and tick the weekend or after-hours box to add its fee. The breakdown shows heat-day labor, vehicle, fuel, wear, warranty re-heat reserve, and true cost. The big number is the recommended quote: true cost plus margin, rounded to fifty dollars, never below your minimum, plus weekend fee. Verdicts are PRICED RIGHT, CLOSE BUT LEAKING, WORKING TOO CHEAP, or LOSING JOB. The gut check prices your old number, and job math counts jobs to your goal. Free, no signup, runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. A 1-room preset with the prep toggle on: $65 target rate, 20 percent margin, $750 minimum job fee, 350 treatable square feet, 6 heat hours, 2 prep hours, $25 generator fuel, $15 heater and fan wear, a 10 percent free re-heat rate, a 45-minute round-trip drive, and 30 miles at $0.67 per mile. Heat-day labor is $568.75 over 8.8 hours, the vehicle is $20.10, fuel and wear are $40.00, and the warranty re-heat reserve is $62.89, giving a true cost of $691.74. The recommended quote is $850, paying $2.43 per square foot and $83.09 per hour, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. A $600 gut price pays $54.52 per hour, sits $91.74 below true cost, and leaves $250 on the table. The job math says 32 jobs and 280.0 heat-day hours to a $5,000 goal, with the over-160-hour flag.
Why does the tool price prep separately?
Prep is operator hours at your target rate. Two hours here is $130.00 of the heat-day labor. Price it into the quote or make the customer do the prep.
What is the re-heat reserve?
Ten percent of jobs needing a free re-heat adds $62.89 to this quote, spread as a reserve over labor, vehicle, and equipment, so one warranty day does not erase several paid jobs.
Why do fuel and wear get their own lines?
The generator burns fuel and heaters and fans wear out on every job. Here that is $40.00 a job. The leak note fires when equipment cost is set to zero.
Why does the quote show dollars per square foot?
Market guides commonly report $1 to $3 per square foot for heat treatment. The tool shows this quote at $2.43 per square foot and flags any quoted price under $1 per square foot.
Is this business or financial advice?
No. Planning-only arithmetic on your own numbers. Treatment rules and licensing vary by state. Defaults are editable starting points, not market rates.