Is this dryer vent job actually paying you? Free, no signup.
Count the full visit: setup, cleaning, photos, talking to the customer.
Dryer vent jobs die on the roof. A $130 base cleaning looks fine until an 18-foot run, a roof exit, and a bird nest quietly double the visit while the quote stays put, so this calculator prices the job from every adder. Start with your bar: the minimum dollars per hour you will work for (75), plus a $99 minimum job fee. Pick a preset: Standard (12 feet, 45 minutes), Long run (28 feet, 60 minutes), or Roof exit (18 feet, 75 minutes, roof toggle on), all editable starting points. The adders card holds a roof-exit toggle with its fee, a bird nest toggle with its fee and extra minutes and a bird guard install toggle showing installed price against your cost as an upsell profit line. Vent feet past 10 are billed at your per-foot rate. The getting-there card takes round-trip drive minutes and miles at your vehicle cost. Results show a line-item breakdown and the recommended quote: true cost at your bar, rounded up to $25, never below the minimum. The gut check grades the quote you would have given, and the week planner turns your goal into jobs. No signup; runs on your phone.
Example only, not typical pricing. Roof exit preset at a $75 bar: $130 base plus 8 feet past 10 at $3 per foot = $24, plus a $60 roof-exit fee, for $214 in revenue. Drive cost is 20 miles x 0.67 = $13.40. Committed time is 75 on site plus 30 drive = 105 minutes = 1.75 hours. True cost = 75 x 1.75 + 13.40 = $144.65, so the recommended quote is max(99, 144.65 rounded up to $25) = $150. The effective rate at $150 is (150 - 13.40) / 1.75 = $78.06 per hour, which clears the bar, so the verdict is PRICED FAIRLY. A $130 gut quote pays (130 - 13.40) / 1.75 = $66.63 per hour, fires WORKING TOO CHEAP, and leaves $20 on the table. A $1,500 week needs 1,500 / 136.60 = 10.98, rounded up to 11 jobs, which is 19.3 committed hours.
**Q** Why charge per foot past 10 feet?
Because length is labor. A 28-foot run takes meaningfully longer than a 12-foot one, and the per-foot fee is how the extra time gets priced instead of absorbed.
**Q** How do I price a roof exit?
Flip the roof-exit toggle and set the fee; the preset uses $60. It covers ladder work and harness time that a wall-exit job never needs.
**Q** Is the bird guard worth offering?
Yes, as an upsell. You are already on the roof with the vent open. The tool shows the installed price against your cost so the profit lands as its own line.
**Q** What counts as committed time?
On-site minutes, nest minutes, and drive minutes together. The tool says it plainly: count the full visit, including setup, cleaning, photos, and talking to the customer.
**Q** Why does the quote round to $25?
Round numbers get accepted faster than odd ones. The recommended quote rounds your true cost up, so you never quote $144.65 when $150 covers the same math.