Carpet Cleaning Cost Calculator
Price a carpet cleaning by the room. Count the rooms, set your per-room rate, bump it for heavy soil or pet spots — get the price, a fair range, and your real profit after solution and fuel.
You priced the job. Now run it like a business.
That's the hard part done. SideWRK runs the rest from your phone: text the estimate, your customer taps approve, and the money hits — card or Apple Pay from their own phone, landing in your own Stripe account that day. It keeps a line on who still owes you, logs every material and cost so your real profit and your tax write-offs tally themselves, and stands up a free website with reviews that feeds you the next job. A free estimate today, or your whole operation in one app. Built for carpet cleaning and every trade.
The room rate is fine — the extras are the job
Per-room pricing works because it is fast and the customer gets it. Where carpet cleaners quietly lose money is everything around the rooms: the flight of stairs that took forty-five minutes, the pet spots that needed enzyme and a second pass, the "one quick hallway" nobody mentioned on the phone. Cap what counts as a room, price heavy soil like the slower job it is, and put stairs and pet treatment on the estimate as their own lines.
Questions
- How much should I charge per room for carpet cleaning?
- Most pros land between $25 and $75 per room, and a typical whole-home job runs about $120–$240 — the national average sits near $180. Your truck, machine, and setup cost the same whether you clean one room or six, so hold a job minimum (usually $100–$150) that makes the one-room call worth the drive.
- Should I price carpet cleaning per room or per square foot?
- Per room is faster to quote over the phone and easier for the customer to picture, so most residential cleaners lead with it — just cap what counts as a room (around 200–250 sq ft) so a great room does not ride in as one. For big open plans and commercial work, switch to square footage at roughly $0.25–$0.50 per square foot.
- What about stairs and pet odor?
- Bill them as their own lines. Stairs run $2–$5 per step because they are all hand work. Deodorizing adds $20–$40 per room, and real pet urine treatment — enzyme work, padding, subfloor — runs $40–$300 depending on how deep it goes. Quote those on top of the room rate, not inside it.
- Is this calculator free?
- Yes. It runs entirely in your browser, there is no sign-up, and nothing is stored anywhere but your own device.
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