Free pressure washing invoice generator
Bill by surface and square foot rather than by the hour, with soft wash chemistry, water recovery and recurring visits priced the way they actually cost.
Build your pressure washing invoice
Prefilled with a house wash and driveway job. Replace the surfaces and footage, then download.
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What is a pressure washing invoice?
A pressure washing invoice should be organised by surface, because that is how the work is priced and how the customer sees the property. House siding, driveway, walkways, patio, deck, roof and fence are separate jobs sharing a trailer, and each has its own rate per square foot.
Hourly billing punishes efficiency in this trade. A crew with a surface cleaner and a good pump finishes a driveway in half the time of a crew with a wand, and hourly pricing pays the slower one more. Quote and invoice by measured area at a per-square-foot rate, and note the area on the document.
Soft washing is chemistry, not pressure, and it should be billed that way. Roof and siding treatments use sodium hypochlorite, surfactants and often a post-treatment rinse; the material cost and the applicator time are real. A separate soft wash line also makes clear that the roof was not blasted with 3,000 PSI, which is what the customer's shingle warranty cares about.
What to include
Everything below is already in the generator above — this is what each part is for.
Property and surfaces cleaned
The address and each surface treated, with its measured square footage.
Method used per surface
Pressure washing, surface cleaning or soft wash, so warranty questions answer themselves.
Chemicals and treatments
Detergents, sodium hypochlorite mixes, rust or oil treatments and post-rinse, as their own line.
Water source and recovery
Whether water was supplied from the site or hauled, and any wash-water recovery or containment.
Recurring plan and visit number
For route customers, the plan, this visit's number and the next scheduled date.
Access and prep charges
Ladders, lifts, moving furniture, plant protection or roof access surcharges.
Three steps to a finished PDF
Enter the property and surfaces
Address, and each surface with the square footage you measured.
Price by surface and method
Per-square-foot rates by surface, then soft wash chemistry, access and recovery.
Download and send
Download the PDF and send it with before-and-after photos while the crew is still on site.
Square-foot pricing, chemistry and recurring revenue
Measure and price by area
Set a rate per square foot for each surface type — concrete flatwork, pavers, siding, roof, deck — and hold to it. Measuring takes two minutes with a wheel or a satellite image and turns every quote into arithmetic instead of a guess. Put the area on the invoice so the customer can see the rate applied.
Charge for chemistry separately
- Roof soft wash uses significant volumes of hypochlorite and surfactant; bill the mix, not just the time.
- Rust, battery acid and oil stains need specific treatments and often a second visit.
- Note the method per surface — it is your defence when a shingle or paint warranty is raised.
Handle water, power and runoff on the invoice
If the site had no spigot and you hauled water, that is a line. If the job required wash-water containment or vacuum recovery — common for commercial lots, restaurants and anywhere near a storm drain — bill it. Municipal stormwater rules increasingly make recovery mandatory on commercial work, and the invoice is where you show it was done.
Convert one-off jobs into routes
The economics of this trade improve enormously with recurring work: quarterly commercial flatwork, annual house washes, monthly restaurant pads. Price a plan, invoice per visit against it with the visit number and the next date, and bill commercial routes monthly rather than per stop. A route customer who receives one clean monthly invoice renews without thinking about it.
Three mistakes that delay payment
Billing by the hour
It pays for slow equipment and makes efficient crews earn less. Price by measured area.
One line for the whole property
Surfaces have different rates and different methods. Separated, the total explains itself.
No photos
This is a visual trade. Before-and-after photos attached to the invoice end most payment arguments before they start.