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People want a price before they'll book, and they describe the pile as "a few things" or "maybe a truck." You already turn that into cubic yards and a fraction of your truck. This page does the translation, then puts a band around it. It never leaves the browser.
The example band is lopsided: 10 percent under the middle, 25 percent over. I set it up that way because a description is more likely to grow in the driveway than to shrink. If your photos are reliable, tighten the high side. Both percents are inputs.
Hauling is a business a lot of people stumble into and then price from the hip. If you want a scored shortlist instead, the free Boring Business Suggester is eight questions and three matches.
Example rates only. They are not a market price. Slice prices are what you charge for that much of one truck, not add-ons stacked on each other.
Divide the cubic yards by the truck size. Every complete truck is the full-load price, once per truck. What's left is a fraction of one truck, and that fraction lands in a single slice: up to an eighth, a quarter, a half, three quarters, or a full load. Cross a boundary and you pay the next slice, not the previous slice plus a topping.
That's why a quarter-load price does not have to be double an eighth. A lot of trucks aren't priced that way, because the drive and the dump barely change between a small pile and a slightly bigger one. The form lets your sheet be uneven. If your eighth price is higher than your quarter price, the math will still obey you, and the breakdown will look wrong because the sheet is wrong. Fix the sheet.
Stairs are per flight. Heavy items are a count. A long carry and a same-day call are flat, and off until you check them. None of those get multiplied by the truck fraction. A piano on a half load is still one piano.
The minimum raises a tiny ticket up to your smallest load and shows the bump as a line. It does not invent volume. If you only checked "same day" and left the yards at zero, you'll get the fee, then the minimum if the fee is smaller. That's a clue you forgot the pile, not a suggestion that same-day is a product by itself.
Dump fees are not a separate line here. Fold the dump into the truck prices, or split it out when you build your own page. The prompt below asks which way you bill. This demo keeps one number per slice so you can see the fraction without a second argument about the landfill.
Sell a range. A single number from a text message is how you eat a basement full of brick. Build the calculator so the fraction of the truck is visible. If the customer can't see "half a truck" in the breakdown, they can't tell you the pile is bigger than that.
Build a single-page junk removal quote calculator I can preview in the browser. Do not invent prices, truck sizes, or dump fees. My business: [junk removal, city] Who uses it: someone who wants a range before they book. They enter cubic yards, flights of stairs, a count of heavy items, and checkboxes for a long carry and a same-day request. Pricing rules. If a blank is empty, ask. Do not fill it. - One full truck holds [ ] cubic yards. - Price for one truck at this fullness (each is the price for that slice, not an add-on): up to 1/8 $[ ], up to 1/4 $[ ], up to 1/2 $[ ], up to 3/4 $[ ], full $[ ] - Each full truck in a bigger job uses the full price. The leftover yards are one slice of the next truck. - Stairs $[ ] per flight. Heavy items $[ ] each. Long carry $[ ]. Same day $[ ]. - Minimum $[ ] - Dump fee: [inside the truck prices / a separate line of $[ ]] - Range: [ ] percent under and [ ] percent over. I want the high side wider if the job was described, not measured. Show the range, the full trucks, the leftover slice in cubic yards, and every fee as its own line. Say the range is an estimate until we see the pile. Do not analyze photos. Phone-friendly. When you finish, list anything you assumed.
A photo intake can sit on top of this later. The arithmetic has to come first or the photo tool just guesses faster. The $27 course is 30 short emails for building that kind of page yourself, about 15 minutes a day.
The example band is uneven on purpose: 10 percent under, 25 percent over. A pile described over the phone tends to grow when you see it. Change either percent. They are not a market price and not a rule you have to keep.
You set how many cubic yards fit in one load. Each full truck uses the full-load price. The leftover is priced as one slice: up to 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, or a full truck. A slice price is the price for that much of a truck, not an amount added on top of a smaller slice.
No. It only does the arithmetic you type. A photo intake is a different tool. The range is still the part you want right before you automate anything else.
If the job isn't a pile, one of these is closer.