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Price a commercial bid from each zone's square footage and your rate. Most commercial flatwork runs $0.05–$0.20 per sq ft — measure the sidewalks, lots and pads from satellite, without a site visit.
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Price a Commercial Bid
Free, no sign-up. Enter the flatwork area and your rate. Commercial work trades a lower per-foot rate for volume, so the area is the number that has to be right.
Area
Property type
Your pricing
Commercial flatwork runs $0.05–$0.20 per sq ft: open parking $0.05–$0.10, sidewalks $0.08–$0.14, gum, grease and drive-thrus $0.12–$0.20. Price dumpster pads flat at $75–$150 each, and add a mobilization minimum if your bids carry one.
Estimated bid
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An estimate, not a quote — your costs, market, and the surface condition move the real number. Don't know the square footage? Measure it from satellite imagery and the area fills itself in.
Estimate commercial flatwork without driving out first
Commercial bids live and die on accurate square footage across a lot of separate surfaces — sidewalks, entry flatwork, pads, and drive lanes. Walking a strip mall or office park with a wheel to get those numbers can burn half a day before you've priced a single line.
With satellite measurement you trace each surface from your desk and the areas total automatically. You arrive at an itemized bid in an afternoon — the kind of fast, organized response that wins commercial accounts and the recurring revenue that comes with them.
Best surfaces to measure remotely
If it's flat and visible from above, you can trace it and price it.
Sidewalks & Walkways
Linear footage adds up fast across a property. Trace each run and let the area total itself.
Storefront Flatwork
Entry aprons, breezeways, and pad areas in front of retail and restaurant units.
Concrete Pads
Dumpster pads, equipment pads, and loading areas — heavy grime, easy to measure from above.
Pool Decks
Hotel, resort, and HOA amenity decks. The pool subtracts automatically for net deck area.
Patios
Restaurant and clubhouse patios, often with furniture footprints to exclude.
Paver Plazas & Areas
Courtyards and entry plazas — priced above flat concrete for the extra care they take.
Example commercial pressure washing quote
A small retail strip — sidewalks, storefront flatwork, and a dumpster pad, measured from satellite.
Sidewalks — 4,200 sq ft × $0.10
$420
Storefront flatwork — 1,800 sq ft × $0.10
$180
Dumpster pad — flat, heavy grime
$125
Mobilization
$95
Total bid
$820
Each surface was traced as a separate shape, so the bid itemizes cleanly — exactly what a property manager wants to see. The pad is priced flat, as pads usually are; every rate by property type is in the commercial pressure washing rates guide.
Why fast quoting matters for commercial jobs
Commercial work usually means competitive bids. Property managers send the same request to several contractors and compare what comes back. The bid that arrives first — itemized, professional, and clearly thought-through — sets the standard everyone else is measured against.
Removing the site-visit bottleneck lets you respond same-day and bid more properties per week. More bids out the door, faster turnaround, and a presentation that signals you run a tight operation — that's how flatwork contractors land recurring commercial accounts.
Measure a commercial property from satellite
Trace a real site, itemize the surfaces, and see how fast a commercial bid comes together. Card required, cancel anytime.
FAQ
Commercial estimating questions
Break the property into the zones you're cleaning — sidewalks, storefront frontage, drive lanes, the parking field — measure each from satellite imagery, and multiply each area by its rate. Price dumpster pads flat, then add mobilization and any after-hours premium. Most commercial flatwork runs $0.05–$0.20 per square foot: open parking areas $0.05–$0.10, shopping-center sidewalk $0.08–$0.14, gum, grease and drive-thrus $0.12–$0.20, and pads $75–$150 each. Divide the total by your crew hours before you send it: commercial work needs $125–$175 an hour.
Yes. High-resolution satellite imagery covers virtually every commercial property in the U.S. In SurfaceMeasure you search the address, trace each surface — sidewalks, parking islands, loading areas, concrete pads — and the square footage calculates automatically. For large sites, measure each surface as a separate shape so your bid breaks down by area.
Any flat surface visible from above: sidewalks and walkways, storefront and entry flatwork, concrete pads, dumpster pads, drive lanes, pool decks at hotels and HOAs, patios at restaurants, and paver plazas. If you can see the surface edge on the satellite image, you can trace and measure it.
Property managers and facility teams usually collect multiple bids, and the contractor who responds first and looks most organized often sets the bar. Measuring remotely lets you turn around an itemized, professional bid in a day instead of waiting on a site walk — which both wins work and signals that you run an efficient operation.
For flat outdoor surfaces it's typically within a few percent of an on-site measurement — more than accurate enough for bidding. For very large or complex sites, many contractors quote from satellite to win the bid, then confirm specifics during mobilization. It removes the measurement bottleneck without removing your final on-site check.
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