Exterior cleans: passes, roofs, gutters and windows
An exterior clean is a job with no paint in it: washing walls, driveways, decks, roofs and fences, treating them for mould and moss, cleaning out gutters and fitting gutter guard, and cleaning windows. Choose Exterior clean in the "Start a project" wizard. Like every project type, it can't be changed once the project exists.
Measuring a clean
You measure a clean exactly as you measure the outside of a repaint: the same surface pills, the same keypad, the same check screen at the end. A clean only offers the surfaces that can be cleaned. Because the whole job is outside, a new clean opens straight on its first area, called Exterior, ready to pick surfaces: rename it, or add more areas, from the job screen.
The first row offers Walls, Roofs, Gutters, Fascia & Soffit, Driveway and Paths, then + Windows and + Solar panels. Everything else is under Other surfaces.
On the check screen the coats choice becomes Passes:
- 1, Clean only — one wash.
- 2, Clean + biocide — a wash, then a biocide treatment for mould, moss and lichen. Each pass runs at its own speed.
Under it, Wash says how the surface is washed: Pressure (the default) or Soft wash, for render, old roofs and anything fragile. Your proposal says which for each surface. It doesn't change the price: set the speed below if a soft wash takes you longer.
The speed control sets how fast you clean that surface. The time and the litres of biocide on screen are the figures the quote will charge.
Roofs and working at height
A roof starts with its Safety flag on, and the area's conditions open with Working at height ticked, so the quote and the crew's safe work plan cover how the roof is reached. If you're cleaning it from the ground with an extension pole, tap them off.
A safe work plan, ready when you win the job
When a clean is won, Surfacely makes its crew brief for you, once, with a Safe Work Plan already filled in for cleaning: the pressure washer, water near power, slippery surfaces, where the wash water goes and, when there's a biocide pass, the chemicals. Working at height, ladders and old-building hazards are worded for cleaning too, and an older building gets a reminder never to pressure wash suspect asbestos. Open it from the job to check it, add anything site-specific and send it to your crew to sign. A repaint with a washdown gets the washing hazards on its crew brief too.
Gutters, fascia and soffit
Washing a wall takes the gutter, fascia and soffit above it too, so a clean measures them as one surface, Gutters, Fascia & Soffit: measured like any other area: the width of the band (gutter face, fascia and soffit together) and the run of roofline. It also gets two switches on its check screen: Clean out and Fit gutter guard, both priced on the same run. Clean-out is time per m. Guard is fitting time plus the guard itself, which you buy per m: its cost goes into the quote's materials at your materials margin.
Windows and solar panels
Windows and solar panels are counted, not measured. Tap + Windows or + Solar panels beside your other surfaces and set how many; large windows, sliding doors, panes, skylights and glass panels are under Other surfaces. Each kind carries a time per window. Turn on Deep clean to add the inside, fly screens and tracks and sills in one go, and the window reads “deep clean” on the quote. The other extras (upper storey, a first clean, paint spots) add time with one tap.
Your rates
Every starting rate is yours to change in Settings → Pricing → Cleaning: the wash speed for each kind of surface, the biocide pass and how far a litre goes, gutter clean-out, guard fitting and its cost per metre, the minutes for each kind of window and each solar panel, and what a deep clean adds. A change reaches new and re-edited quotes; a quote already sent keeps the rates it was priced at. Biocide's cost per L lives with your other materials.
What your client sees
The quote, the proposal, the email and the job portal all say cleaning, never painting. There is no coats column and no colour line. Your terms carry a site-services clause: free use of an outdoor tap and power, where the runoff goes, closing windows, moving cars, outdoor furniture and soft furnishings, keeping children and pets clear, and that cleaning can reveal defects that were already there. It names your market's consumer law. When a surface has a biocide pass, a biocide treatment clause follows it: what the treatment kills, that a registered product is applied by trained crew in protective gear at the label's strength, that it is safe when used responsibly, and what the client should do (keep children and pets off until it's dry, and tell you about allergies, ponds, edible gardens or rainwater tanks). If you've written your own terms, the clauses are added at the end. Terms you haven't edited gain or lose the biocide clause as you add or remove the biocide pass; terms you've edited are left as you wrote them.
Why it matters: a wash priced as a guess is the job that loses money quietly. Measured surfaces and a time for every pass mean a clean prices the way a repaint does, from what is actually there.