A written price, with the working shown
Send us the job. Get a job sheet back, not a number in a text message.
A postcode, the surface and a couple of photographs prices most exterior work. Back comes the areas, the method, what is in, what is out, and one figure with GST in it. That figure is the one on the invoice. It takes one business day and it commits you to nothing.
The written price request
Two ways to get a price, and both of them work now
Book a standard package online
House washes, gutters, decks and solar have published prices, so they can be booked straight from the diary. You give us the address, the property type and what needs doing. No deposit, and a person calls within one business day to confirm the date and read the job back to you.
Open the diaryCall us for anything that has to be quoted
Tile roofs, brickwork, graffiti, commercial sites and anything unusual are priced after a look or from photographs. Ring and we will tell you which one your job needs, and what it is likely to cost, before anybody comes out.
(02) 4715 6611Have these ready either way
- The job postcode.
- What the surface is: render, brick, weatherboard, concrete, pavers, timber, tile or Colorbond.
- Two or three photographs, one wide and one close.
- Anything that looks like fibro.
What to send
The postcode
It tells us the travel and whether the job sits inside our ordinary run.
What the surface is
Render, brick, weatherboard, concrete, pavers, timber, tile or Colorbond. The material decides the method and the method decides the price.
Two or three photographs
One wide enough to show the whole surface, and one close enough to show the worst of it. Photographs are how a price stops being a guess.
Anything that looks like fibro
A wall, an eave, a gutter, a fence or a roof sheet. If it might be, tell us and we will look before anything else happens.
The booking form takes your photographs as links, and on the phone we will tell you where to send them. If the surface is something we cannot price without standing on it, we say so and come and look.
Your written price, before you have asked for one
The whole document is below, blank. Every quote we send uses these fields, and the same sheet comes back with the invoice at the end.
The figure on the sheet is the figure on the invoice. If what we find on site is different from the photographs, you hear about it before any water runs, not afterwards on a bill.
- Site and surfaces
- each surface listed, measured, in square metres
- Contamination class
- dirt, mould and lichen, oil and grease, or gum
- Method
- soft wash or high pressure, hot or cold, per surface
- What is included
- the work, the passes, the make good
- Runoff control and disposal
- where the wash water is captured and where it goes
- Water, power and access
- the assumptions the price is built on
- What is excluded
- asbestos, unknown paint, damaged grout, pre existing stains
- Total including GST
- one figure, the figure on the invoice
- How long the price stands
- the validity period
- Weather terms
- what happens if the day is wrong for the job
If we cannot know it yet, it comes back as an estimate and it says so
Some things cannot be settled from a photograph: how deep an oil stain has gone into porous concrete, what is under a coating that is already failing, or where wash water can lawfully go on a site nobody has walked. Those come back as an estimate with the assumptions written beside them and a figure we will not pass without your written yes. Everything else comes back as a quote, and a quote holds.
Questions about a written price
What do I get back?
A job sheet. It lists the surfaces, the measured or assumed areas, the contamination, the method for each surface, what is included, what is excluded, where the wash water goes, one total including GST and how long the price stands.
How long does it take?
One business day. If the photographs answer the questions, the price comes back with them. If they do not, we tell you what else we need rather than sending a number with a hole in it.
Do I have to be there?
Not to get the price. For most exterior work you do not have to be there on the day either, as long as we can reach a tap and park close enough to run the hose.
Will the price change once you see it?
If the job is what you described, no. If it is different, we stop before any water runs, tell you what changed and what it costs, and you decide. Nothing appears on an invoice that you have not already agreed to in writing.
Is there a minimum?
Yes, $249 for an attended job. It is on the rate card with everything else, so you can see it before you send anything.
What happens to my photographs?
They are used to price the job and they go in the file with it. They are not published, they are not put on a gallery page, and nobody outside the job sees them.
Already know the job?
The fixed packages can be booked straight from the diary, with no deposit.