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Roof Soft Washing Jobs: Measuring, Quoting and Scheduling Roofs

Roof soft washing is a different animal from a house wash. The surface is bigger than it looks from the street, the pitch decides how the crew works, the runoff lands on everything below it, and the result is the most visible change a washing company can make to a house. Black streaks gone from a roof are noticed from the end of the block. That makes roofs worth doing well and worth tracking well.

Roofs as Their Own Job Detail

The fields that describe every job are covered in House Wash Job Details: Square Feet, Stories, Siding and Method on Every Job. Roofs use the same fields, but they mean slightly different things.

In PressureWashingBossPro, Roof Soft Wash is its own surface. A job can be just the roof, or the roof plus a house wash, or the roof plus the house plus the driveway. Each surface on the job is listed, so the crew sees “Roof Soft Wash, House Wash · 2,400 sq ft · 1-story · Soft Wash” and knows the roof is part of the visit before they unroll a hose.

The stories field matters even more on a roof. A low-slope 1-story roof and a steep 2-story roof are different days, and the office should know which one it is before booking.

Measuring Roofs From the Office

Driving out to measure every roof costs time you could spend washing. The property map in PressureWashingBossPro can measure square feet from the satellite view, so you can trace the roof outline and get its area without a ladder. Keep in mind that a satellite trace shows the roof's footprint from above. A steep roof has more surface than its footprint, so many owners add an allowance for pitch when they price. That allowance is your call, based on your own experience.

Estimates can price off a property's measurements, so once the roof is measured, quoting it again next year uses the same number.

Quoting a Roof

Build the estimate from your service list. A roof soft wash line item, priced the way you price roofs, plus anything else the customer wants. Common combinations include:

• Roof soft wash on its own
• Roof soft wash plus house wash, so the runoff streaks on the siding get washed the same day
• Roof plus gutter brightening on the gutter faces

Put the job details on the estimate: the roof's square feet, stories, the surface and the soft wash method. Add access notes the crew will need, such as which side has the best ladder spot, where the spigot is, and which plants below the eaves need pre-wetting and covering. When the customer approves online, all of it carries onto the scheduled job.

An estimate template for a roof and house combo saves time if you quote it often. The bundling side is covered in The House and Driveway Package: Bundling the Two Jobs Homeowners Ask For Together.

Practical Notes for the Crew

Roof soft washing advice should stay general, because roofing materials vary and manufacturers publish their own cleaning guidance. A few habits most operators share:

• Check the roofing manufacturer's guidance before the first wash on a roof type you have not done.
• Pre-wet the plants and lawn below the drip line and keep them wet.
• Soft wash, never high pressure, on shingles.
• Note anything unusual about the roof in the job notes so next time's crew knows.

Those notes stay with the address. Next time the roof comes up, the crew sees what this crew wrote.

Scheduling Roofs

Roofs take longer and depend more on weather than a house wash. On the Scheduled List, many owners give a roof the first slot of the day on a rig that has no tight stops after it. Auto-route sorts the day Closest First or Furthest First from the shop, and you can move the roof to the top by hand.

Roofs also fit the seasons well. Plenty of operators save roof work for fall, when the spring house wash rush is over and the customer is thinking about the house before winter. If the roof is on a recurring plan with a long gap between visits, it comes due on its own on the Waiting List.

Photos Sell the Next Roof

Before-and-after photos of a roof are some of the best marketing a washing company can have. The crew takes them in the crew app, and they stay with the job. Taken from the same spot across the street, the difference speaks for itself, and the neighbors who saw the rig in the driveway are already curious.

For everything else on the residential side, from flatwork to yearly plans, visit the PressureWashingBossPro house washing software page.