Carpenter Bee Treatment Pricing Calculator: Gallery Holes and Fascia Runs
Price a carpenter bee visit from your own numbers: per gallery hole treated and plugged, per foot of fascia, a height tier, trip charge, minimum, follow-up and wood repair.
How this is calculated
A carpenter bee visit is two jobs billed together, so the quote adds two units. The gallery holes are a count, because each one is opened, treated and plugged on its own. The fascia, rake board, rail and soffit run is a length, because a residual band goes along a face whether or not there is a hole in it. The access factor then multiplies those two lines only.
holes = holeCount × holeRate
band = runLength × ratePerFoot
uplift = (holes + band) × (accessFactor − 1)
treatment = holes + band + uplift
materials = (supplies + liftHire) × (1 + markup)
repair = repairLength × repairRate + repairMaterials (only when ticked)
visit = max(trip + treatment + materials + repair, jobMinimum)
quote = visit + followUpVisits × followUpPrice
tax = quote × taxRate
paidHours = (onSite + drive) × crew + followUps × (followUpHours + drive) × crew
cost = paidHours × costRate + supplies + liftHire + repairMaterials
margin = (quote − cost) ÷ quote
route = floor(accounts × uptake) × quote No price presets anywhere. Every currency box starts empty.
The only pre-filled numbers are the access factors, and they sit in an
editable box: 1.00 at ground level or off a step ladder,
1.15 on an extension ladder at a single-story eave,
1.35 on a tall extension ladder at a second story or gable, and
1.60 when a lift or scaffold is needed. Those are scoping
conventions, not market rates and not a published benchmark. They say the
same hole costs you more time the higher you have to go, which is a claim
about your own day. Overwrite them with the ratio your own timed jobs show.
Why the uplift is its own line. Buried inside a per-hole rate, an access premium looks like a higher price for the same work and the customer argues with it. Shown as a separate line against a named tier, it is what it actually is: the extra reach time. The uplift never touches the trip charge, the materials, the repair or the callback price, because none of those get longer when the eave does.
Callbacks are priced as drives, not as minutes. Tick the follow-up and every promised visit adds a full round trip to the cost side, not just the twenty minutes at the wall. That is why a same-season promise given away free can quietly turn a healthy quote into a thin one, and the tool says so on the face of the result.
The metric toggle converts both halves of a length line. Switch to metres and the run and the per-unit rate convert together, so the money is unchanged. The exact factor is 1 m = 3.280839895 ft, from the definition of the inch as 25.4 mm.
This page prices; it does not dose. Nothing here names a product, a rate, a dust volume, a drill depth or a plug method, because none of those are pricing questions and getting them from a calculator would be the wrong place to get them. Work quantities out in the insecticide dust quantity calculator and the borate wood treatment calculator against the label in front of you, then bring the cost back here.
Everything runs in your browser. No account, no email gate, nothing stored or sent.
What this prices, and what it deliberately does not
A carpenter bee call is not a nest removal. A wasp job is one nest, priced by access and by the risk of getting to it, and when the nest is gone the job is over. Carpenter bee work is a spring route add-on: a number of gallery entrances opened, treated and plugged, a length of fascia, rake board, deck rail and soffit carrying a residual band, a ladder decision that drives most of the time on site, and usually a promise to come back if they return. This page builds the quote from those units and then runs the two checks a flat “bee job” price hides: what the whole promise returns per paid crew-hour, and what it works out at per gallery hole once the callbacks are counted.
If what you are looking at is one nest rather than a season of boring, the wasp nest removal pricing calculator is the right tool. It prices a single nest by access and height; this one prices a face and a count.
Every money field starts empty on purpose
Search for carpenter bee treatment prices and the results are homeowner cost pages. Follow their citations and they resolve to each other, not to a regulator, a trade body or a published operator survey. Under this site’s cite-or-omit rule that means the numbers are deliberately not carried over here: none of them are seeded into a box, and nothing on this page is presented as a going rate.
What the tool gives you instead is the shape of the quote, with every currency field blank until you fill it. The only pre-filled numbers anywhere are the four access factors, and all of them sit in an editable box: they are a scoping starting point that says the same hole costs you more time the higher you have to go, not a benchmark. Overwrite them after your first few timed jobs.
Holes are a count, the face is a length
The two units are not interchangeable, and the quotes that lose money are usually the ones that picked only one of them. Twenty entrance holes on a low deck rail is twenty separate pieces of work and almost no banding. A long two-story rake board with four holes in it is almost all banding and very little drilling. Bill the first by the foot and you have given away the holes; bill the second by the hole and you have given away the face. Enter both and the tool adds them, then applies the access factor to those two lines only.
Height is a line, not a hidden rate
An access premium buried inside a per-hole rate looks to the customer like a higher price for identical work, and they argue with it. Shown as its own line against a named tier, it is what it actually is: the extra reach time. Pick your tier, keep or overwrite the factor, and the uplift appears on the quote where it can be explained. The trip charge stays out of it, because the drive is the same length whichever eave you are working on.
The callback is the line most quotes give away
A same-season promise is a strong close and a real cost. Every return visit is another round trip, and the tool counts it as one on the cost side whether or not you charge for it. That is what makes the per-paid-crew-hour number honest, and it is usually the figure that explains why a busy spring felt thinner than it looked.
This page prices; it does not dose
Nothing here names a product, a rate, a dust volume, a drill depth or a plug method, because none of those are pricing questions. Supplies appear as a single cost line: what this visit consumed. Work the quantities out in the insecticide dust quantity calculator and, where you are treating bare or unfinished wood rather than a gallery, the borate wood treatment calculator, against the label in front of you, then bring the cost back here. The product label is the authority over both of those, and over this page.
From a spring add-on to something that renews
The route roll-up at the bottom multiplies one quote by the accounts you expect to take it, which is how the add-on is usually sold: offered each spring to a book you already drive past. If you would rather stop reselling it every year and fold the work into an agreement instead, the recurring plan comparator is where a renewing plan is priced and compared against one-off work.
Everything runs in your browser: no account, no email gate, nothing stored or sent. Estimate only, not a binding quote.