A quote app for your cleaning business — extras priced before the gloves go on

How cleaning work goes unpaid

• The end-of-lease that was “left tidy”. You priced a standard bond clean off a phone description. On arrival: an oven that's never met a scraper, mould in the ensuite silicone, and a garage half full of junk that isn't yours to move — but somehow becomes your problem. Do it without repricing and you've worked hours for free; reprice verbally and the tenant “doesn't remember agreeing to that” when the invoice lands.
• Walkthrough add-ons. Windows inside and out. The carpets, actually, while you're here. The balcony. Walkthrough extras are easy sales and easy losses — each yes is real time and product, and a verbal price quoted at the front door is worth exactly the paper it's written on.
• Regulars who quietly expand the job. The fortnightly clean that started as three bedrooms and two baths now includes the home office, the second fridge and the skirting boards “when you get a chance”. Nobody renegotiated; the scope just grew. A year of that is hundreds of hours at the old price.

A bond clean, quoted from the walkthrough

The oven and the balcony are their own lines, not padding hidden in a lump sum — so when the tenant asks why it's not the $520 their mate paid, the answer is on the page. Your prices stay exactly as you said them. Prices come from the user and stay editable. Timmy structures the work and wording; it does not invent amounts. And if you find the mould after you've started, the same flow captures it: say what you found, attach a photo to the job note, and share the variation before you touch it.

Quoting cleans: condition is the scope

A cleaning quote that only lists rooms is a quote that assumes the best. The habit that protects cleaners is naming the assumed condition and pricing outside it: “standard bond clean assumes normal wear; heavy build-up in ovens, showers or walls quoted separately on inspection”. Timmy structures that from your rough spoken note, and it turns the awkward mid-job phone call into the process you told the customer about upfront. It also gives your regulars a gentle mechanism: when the scope grows, requote the recurring clean as a fresh document instead of absorbing it. How to write a professional trade quote covers the wider craft, and when an agent goes quiet on a quote, a drafted follow-up message beats letting it die.

What Timmy asks when a cleaning note is missing details

When an important detail is missing (a price, a customer, a scope item), Timmy asks rather than making it up. On cleaning notes, expect questions like:

• An extra with no price. “They want the carpets done too” becomes a scoped line with the amount open, and Timmy asks for your number — it won't guess your carpet rate.
• Which property? Three end-of-lease jobs for the same agent in one week is normal. Timmy confirms which job before a quote or variation lands anywhere.
• Fuzzy scope. “Clean the outdoor area” gets a question — balcony, patio, or the whole yard? Vague lines are how bond-clean disputes start.

Who it fits — and who it doesn't

TradieCue is built for solo tradies and small owner-operated trade businesses (roughly 1–5 people) in australia. For a solo cleaner or a small team doing bond cleans, one-off deep cleans and a book of regulars, it covers the money side of the paperwork: quotes from walkthrough notes, priced extras in writing, and polite payment follow-ups when an agent or tenant sits on an invoice. Be clear on what it isn't: it doesn't manage recurring schedules, rosters or bookings — no calendar, no route planning, no automatic fortnightly anything. The diary stays wherever it lives now; TradieCue handles the quoting, the extras and the record. Drafts aren't legal advice, nothing sends without your say-so, and it's iPhone only for now.

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