Problem: Independent chimney sweeps need a defensible minimum quote and a safe same-day acceptance decision, but direct cost, labor, overhead allocation, service mix, travel, setup, cleanup, crew availability, and existing bookings are often evaluated separately.
Finished job: Completion occurs when the user enters the service mix, direct costs, labor rate and hours, overhead allocation, travel or setup time, cleanup time, available crew hours, and already-booked work, then receives a numeric price floor, feasible additional-job count, day-utilization percentage, limiting bottleneck, and overload warning before accepting or declining another job.
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Planned Mix Price Floor—Calculates and rounds each service type's buffered per-job cost floor upward, then totals the entered mix. Verify current costs, scope, access, and site conditions before quoting; this is not a guaranteed margin.Feasible Additional Jobs at Planned Mix—Returns the whole-job capacity estimate using the average crew-hours of the entered service mix after booked work and the reserve. Confirm the actual job sequence, route, staffing, and individual durations before booking.Day Utilization—Shows booked and planned crew-hours as a percentage of available crew-hours. The capacity reserve is excluded from utilization but included in the overload test.Capacity Bottleneck Code—Decodes the largest time component as 1 for service, 2 for travel/setup, and 4 for cleanup; summed values 3, 5, 6, or 7 indicate ties. Codes 9 through 15 mean the reserve-adjusted plan exceeds available crew-hours, so capacity_overload takes precedence.
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Chimney Sweep Pricing Operations System
The free tool completes and exports one full case. The optional one-time USD 19 system supports multiple, repeated, and future cases with retained history and saved customer, job, quote, schedule, assumption, and acceptance records.
Customer and chimney-site registry for contact details, service locations, access notes, chimney characteristics, and verified scope assumptions.
Reusable simple-sweep and multi-service pricing-and-duration preset library with side-by-side scenario comparison.
Quote and daily-capacity workspace showing price floors, crew-hour demand, utilization, bottlenecks, reserves, and overload warnings.
Job pipeline and evidence log tracking quote-to-booked-to-completed status, schedule changes, assumptions, acceptance decisions, and company branding.