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A pressure-washing technician in grey work clothes and safety glasses cleans a concrete walkway with a surface-cleaner disc, a clean stripe beside the wet grey slab, a reclaim mat and hose beside him and landscaped clubhouse grounds behind.

Wash the surfaces. Show the result.

Communities write pressure washing into their RFPs as a list of surfaces and how often. You price each surface, then file a photo when you arrive and another when you finish.

  • Walkways and curbs
  • Pool decks
  • Breezeways
  • Entry monuments

Surfaces are how a community writes the job.

Read the list before you drive out. Each surface is its own line, so you price it and report it on its own.

  • Walkways and curbs

    Sidewalks, curbs and the paths between buildings.

  • Pool decks

    Deck and coping, around furniture that has to move.

  • Breezeways and building faces

    By building, so each one can be done or skipped on its own.

  • Entry monuments and trash pads

    The small surfaces that are easy to forget in a bid.

A photo when you arrive, a photo when you finish.

Check in on arrival with a photo of the surface before you start, then file the completion with photos of each surface after. The community reads before and after on the visit, and a rained-out surface is named as not done instead of silently dropped.

  • Link the visit to the invoiceEach invoice line can point at the visit it bills.
  • Photos you still oweA visit filed without its photo is on a list until you add it.

Quarterly wash day

Maple Court HOA · four surfaces

Surfaces

Today’s visit
Pool deckFinish photo filed · 8:31 AMDone
Clubhouse walkwaysFinish photo filed · 9:50 AMDone
Breezeways, buildings 1 to 3Finish photo filed · 11:40 AMDone

Not finished

Say why in the report
Entry monumentStopped for rain · rescheduleOpen
Invoice for this visitLink the visit it billsDraft

From the list of surfaces to the wash day.

  1. Open an RFP near your yard

    Read the surfaces and the cycle. Opening an RFP costs nothing, and no proposal has to follow.

  2. Price each surface

    Put the method in your notes: surface cleaner, hot water, reclaim mat. Say whether you capture and haul away wastewater.

  3. Add photos of past work

    Proposal Studio takes photos of jobs you have done, so a board sees a clean pool deck before it sees your price.

  4. Plan the cycle

    Proposal Studio has a step for planning the visits, so a quarterly wash goes in with its dates.

What a community asks a pressure washing company for.

Pressure washing RFPs go out in the porter services category, so the porter documents are the ones you file.

  • General liability

    A current certificate. A community that wants workers’ compensation or commercial auto sets that on its own RFP.

  • Background check

    Screening for staff who work around residents and amenities.

  • W-9 and business license

    A person at VendoRFP reads both before the community names open to you.

What pressure washing owners ask first.

Can I bid on a wash without the daily cleaning?

Yes. Pressure washing is its own line in an RFP, so it is priced apart from the base price of any other work.

Where does water runoff go in the proposal?

In your notes. A community can write runoff rules into its RFP, and your notes state how you meet them.

How do I show a stained surface the way it was?

The arrival photo is the before. Take it before the wand comes out.

Find the wash work near your yard.

Create a free vendor account and read the pressure washing RFPs in your area.