PressureWashingBossPro Blog — Commercial Accounts

One Rig on Houses, One on Commercial: Splitting Routes in Pressure Washing Software

Once a pressure washing company has a second rig, a natural split tends to happen. One rig handles residential work: house washes, roof soft washing, driveways, decks and fences, during normal daytime hours. The other handles commercial: drive-thrus, storefronts, dumpster pads and fleets in the early morning or after close, then HOA and apartment work during the day. The two sides run on different clocks, with different equipment setups and often different crew members.

Why the Split Works

Access, covered in Keys, Codes and Managers on Site: Access Notes for Commercial Pressure Washing, is one reason commercial work benefits from a dedicated crew. The crew that washes the same drive-thrus every month learns the spigots, the keys and the night managers.

Other reasons the split makes sense:

• Hours. A crew that starts at 3am cannot also do a full day of house washes.
• Setup. Commercial flatwork often calls for hot water and a big surface cleaner; residential leans on soft wash for siding and roofs.
• Predictability. Commercial routes repeat every month. Residential days change constantly.
• Skills. Some crew members are great with homeowners. Others prefer working alone in an empty lot at dawn.

Setting Up Rigs and Crews

In PressureWashingBossPro, employees each have a personal PIN and can be assigned to a rig. Set up Rig 1 for residential and Rig 2 for commercial, and assign the crew members who usually work each one. When the crew logs in to the crew app with the company login and their PIN, they see their own jobs in route order.

The assignment is not permanent. When the commercial crew member is out, someone from the residential side can cover. They log in with their own PIN, and the commercial route shows on their phone with every access note, so they are not guessing.

One Waiting List, Two Routes

Residential and commercial work share one Waiting List. Due house washes, yearly roof soft washes, monthly drive-thrus and quarterly HOA common areas all show on the same map, colored by status. That is useful: the office sees the whole company's due work in one place.

From there, the office assigns work to rigs. Commercial pins go to Rig 2 on the days it runs. Residential pins go to Rig 1. Tags on clients, like Commercial or Residential, make it easy to tell them apart at a glance. Recurring visits are covered in 30-Day and 90-Day Visits on the Waiting List: Recurring Commercial Pressure Washing.

The Dispatch Board by Rig

The Scheduled List shows jobs by day and can be filtered by rig. Filter to Rig 2 to build the commercial route; filter to Rig 1 for residential. Auto-route each rig Closest First or Furthest First from the shop, then adjust the order. For commercial work, that usually means putting the earliest-opening stores first. Save each filtered view so you can pull it up again next week in one click.

A typical day might look like:

• Rig 1, 8am: two house washes, a roof soft wash, a driveway.
• Rig 2, 3am: two gas stations, three drive-thrus, a row of storefronts before 7.
• Rig 2, 10am: an HOA pool deck and clubhouse walk.

When One Rig Has to Cover Both

Not every company has two rigs. A solo operator with one rig can still run both sides by splitting the week or the day: commercial before dawn, residential after. In that case, the dispatch board shows everything on one rig, and the route order matters even more. Do the commercial stops first, with a clear cutoff, then move into houses.

This is where the Waiting List helps most. Commercial visits that come due can wait a few days within their grace without problems, so the owner can batch them onto one or two early mornings a week instead of scattering them.

The time clock on the crew app helps a solo operator or small crew keep an honest picture of the hours too. Commercial mornings that start at 3am and roll into a full day of house washes add up fast. Seeing the hours recorded as they happen makes it easier to decide when the commercial side has grown enough to justify a second rig and a dedicated crew member, rather than guessing based on how tired everyone feels.

Keeping the Office View Clear

Crew GPS shows both rigs on the office map, so the owner can see at a glance where everyone is. As each crew taps Complete, the office sees jobs done, photos attached and invoices created for residential, or visits recorded for monthly commercial accounts.

Two rigs, two kinds of work, one system. To see how the commercial side works from bid to statement, visit the commercial pressure washing software overview.