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This calculator vs. tracking it in a spreadsheet
A contractor pricing a hood-and-exhaust stop usually ends up with a spreadsheet: a canopy line, a duct-length line, a fan line, a grease-load multiplier, and a new row whenever the job needs something it did not have last time. Every formula is ordinary arithmetic. Keeping it correct as the scope changes under you is the part that gets skipped when a restaurant needs a number today.
What each approach actually does
A spreadsheet can reproduce every line this calculator prices — canopy and filter labor, horizontal and vertical duct length, the fan, a grease-load multiplier, an access multiplier, after-hours labor, travel, chemicals, disposal, overhead, and target margin. Building it means writing a formula for each of those and remembering which ones to zero out or add back in when the next job has a longer vertical run or rooftop access this one did not.
This calculator keeps canopy, filters, duct, fan, grease load, and access on one screen, already wired to the job you are pricing. Changing the duct length or flagging rooftop access recomputes the hood-only price against the full-system price and the annual contract immediately — a field you have already hand-edited is left alone, but nothing else silently keeps yesterday's number from the last stop. A shareable bid link and a printable customer proposal with a deposit split and a price-held date are each one click, not a second document to build.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| Does changing the duct length, grease load, or access price correctly the moment I change it? | This calculator's live totals — no formula to remember to add. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this stop? | This calculator's walk-away price. |
| My job has a wrinkle this calculator doesn't model (a second system, a makeup-air unit). | A spreadsheet you build yourself — it can represent any line item you can describe. |
| I need to hand the restaurant a proposal with a deposit split and a price-held date. | This calculator's printable proposal, generated from the same figures — no second document. |
| I want to send this exact bid to my crew or a partner. | This calculator's shareable bid link — a spreadsheet has to be saved and sent as a file. |
| Is my data uploaded anywhere? | No. Everything runs in your browser; your figures stay on this device. |
This page names no specific product — it compares against the generic method of tracking a bid in a spreadsheet.
Common questions
Can a spreadsheet price a hood-cleaning job instead?
Yes. Every line this calculator prices — canopy and filter labor, horizontal and vertical duct length, the fan, a grease-load multiplier, an access multiplier, after-hours labor, travel, chemicals, disposal, overhead, and target margin — is ordinary arithmetic you can put in a spreadsheet. Building it means setting up formulas for each of those and remembering to update every one of them whenever the scope changes, on a system where canopy square footage alone does not predict the cost.
What does a spreadsheet not do that this calculator does?
Show the hood-only price against the full-system price the moment you change the duct length or grease load, so a long vertical run with rooftop access is priced correctly rather than after you remember to add a row for it. It also turns the same numbers into a printable customer proposal with a deposit split and a price-held date, and a shareable bid link that reopens the exact bid for you or your crew, neither of which a formula cell produces on its own.
Is a spreadsheet ever the better choice?
Yes, when the job has a wrinkle this calculator does not model — a second exhaust system, a makeup-air unit, or a rate structure this tool's fields cannot represent. A spreadsheet you build yourself can represent any line item you can describe. This calculator trades that flexibility for a form that already has the right fields for one hood-and-exhaust system, wired together so switching scope does not mean rebuilding the sheet.
Is my data uploaded anywhere?
No account and no network requests — the calculator runs entirely in your browser. A share link encodes only the inputs you choose into the address bar and is never sent to us; your business and contact details for the printed proposal are saved locally on this device.
Open the Kitchen Hood Cleaning Bid Calculator to price your own job, or read the exhaust-system pricing walkthrough.