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Service Pricing Builder
Compute the price floor below which a job costs you money, then build your price book above it. This tool works only from numbers you enter: it will not tell you what your market charges, because we refuse to invent that. Your numbers stay in your browser; nothing is uploaded or saved by us.
Step 1: your cost structure
Overhead per job
$0
every job carries this share of your fixed costs
Cost floor, standard sweep
$0
below this line, the visit loses money
Step 2: your price book
Set honest door-to-door hours for each service line, and a target margin over cost. The suggested price is your floor times your margin; round it to something you can say out loud.
Sweep + Level 1 inspection
the bread-and-butter visit
Your floor
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Suggested (floor + margin)
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Level 2 inspection (with scan)
real estate transfers, post-event checks
Your floor
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Suggested (floor + margin)
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Dryer vent cleaning (add-on)
often quoted as an add-on while on site
Your floor
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Suggested (floor + margin)
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Cap / chase cover install (labor only)
part cost gets added separately on the estimate
Your floor
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Suggested (floor + margin)
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Fill in step 1 (fixed costs, jobs per month, labor rate) and the floors will compute.
Three honest pricing rules
- Price the drive, not just the chimney: distant jobs need either radius pricing or batching by zip code.
- Charge for inspections. Free inspections create pressure to find billable problems; a paid inspection lets the honest answer be that everything looks fine.
- This tool computes your floor, not your market. Learn local rates by quoting and listening, then hold your price with report quality, not discounts.
Turn the floor into a season.
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