Price RV details so the big rigs actually pay. Free, no signup. All defaults are editable starting points.
RV detailing quotes die on one flat per-foot number. A low per-foot wash-and-wax looks fine until the chalky gelcoat turns a hand wax into compound and polish work, and the roof, slide-outs, wheels, and drive to the RV park all go unbilled. Start with your bar (65), profit margin percent (20), minimum trip fee (150), and daily take-home goal (500). Pick a rig preset: Class B, Class C, Class A, or 5th wheel, each filling length and slide-out count as editable starting points. Choose the service level and the gelcoat condition: the oxidation select multiplies wax time from 1x for good paint to 2.5x for heavy oxidation, because chalk decides whether the quote pays. The add-ons card prices the roof wash, awnings, slide-outs, and wheel polishing as separate lines, never thrown in free. The getting-there card prices one-way drive doubled, round-trip miles, vehicle cost, setup minutes, and helper hours. Results show your time at your bar, materials, vehicle, add-on fees, true cost, the recommended quote rounded up to 25 dollars, dollars per foot, and your effective rate. The gut check grades your instinct quote; the day planner turns your goal into rigs. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Class A wash and wax at a $65 bar with 20 percent margin: 36 ft times 4 wash minutes equals 144 minutes, plus 36 times 10 times 1.6 oxidation equals 576 wax minutes. Add 40 slide-out, 45 roof, and 72 wheel minutes for 877 site minutes, or 14.62 hours. Add 60 round-trip drive plus 30 setup minutes for 16.12 own hours at $65, which is $1,047.58 of labor. Vehicle is 40 miles at $0.75 equals $30. Materials are $25. True cost is $1,047.58 plus $30 plus $25 equals $1,102.58. Add-on fees are $150 (roof, slides, wheels). Recommended quote is max(150, 1,102.58 x 1.20 plus 150) rounded up to $25 equals $1,475, or $40.97 per foot. Effective rate is (1,475 minus 1,102.58 plus 1,047.58) divided by 16.12 equals $88.11 per hour, which clears the bar, so the verdict is PRICED RIGHT. An $800 gut quote would pay $46.23 per hour and leave $675 on the table. The day planner shows 1.3 rigs and 21.6 hours for a $500 day, firing the over-10-hour warning: one big chalky rig already fills the day. Price the chalk, not the length.
Why does oxidation multiply wax time?
The gelcoat condition decides the real job. Good paint is 1x; heavy oxidation runs 2.5x and prices compound and polish time, not wax time. The select stops a chalky rig from being priced as a hand-wax job.
Why are add-ons separate line items?
Roof, slides, awnings, and wheels get thrown in free in a flat per-foot quote. Pricing each with its own fee and minutes keeps them from riding free on the footage.
What fires the drive leak note?
When drive time tops half the site time. The park is too far or the jobs are too scattered: cluster RV jobs in the same park or raise the minimum trip fee.
What does CLOSE, BUT LEAKING mean?
Your effective rate sits between 70 percent and 100 percent of your bar. Drive, setup, or unpaid add-on minutes are usually the leak.
When does the minimum trip fee decide the quote?
Small Class B wash-only jobs near home can cost less than $150 to run. The minimum holds the quote up so the trip is still worth taking.