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title: "Your room and task library · BlastoClean docs"
description: "The room types and cleaning tasks every BlastoClean quote is built from — seeded when you sign up, then shaped to how your own company cleans."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/your-room-and-task-library"
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# Your room and task library

Getting started · Web app · 2 min read · updated August 13, 2026

**Every quote is assembled from your library of room types and the tasks each one contains, with a time on every task — so shaping the library once is what makes every future quote fast and consistent.**

A quote in BlastoClean is not a blank document. It is assembled from a library
of **room types** and the **tasks** that belong to them, each task carrying the
number of minutes it takes. Get the library right and a quote becomes a matter
of ticking what applies; leave it as it arrives and you will spend the rest of
your life typing the same lines.

Your company starts with a seeded library — the common room types and the tasks
most cleaning companies do in them — so you can quote on day one and shape it
as you learn what you actually charge for.

## Room templates

![The room templates section of Settings, listing room types with the number of tasks in each](/images/docs/settings-library.webp)

A room template is a room type — Kitchen, Full Bathroom, Living Room, Garage;
Office, Conference Room and Restroom if your work is commercial — and the set
of tasks that comes with it. When somebody adds a Kitchen to a
quote, they get your kitchen tasks, already timed, ready to tick on and off.

Add the rooms your work actually involves. A company that cleans dental
practices needs a Treatment Room far more than a Nursery.

## Task templates

A task is one line of work with a duration: *Scrub and disinfect toilet, 8
minutes.* Two things make these worth being careful about:

- **The time is what the price is made of.** Labour on a quote is the sum of the
  ticked tasks' minutes, multiplied by your hourly rate. A task with an
  optimistic time under-charges every quote it appears in.
- **The description is what the customer reads.** Task descriptions appear on
  the quote the customer sees and on the printed work checklist the cleaner
  works from, so they are worth writing as sentences rather than shorthand.

A task can belong to several room types. Changing it in the library changes it
everywhere it is used **from then on** — quotes already written keep the times
they were written with, so tuning the library never silently reprices something
a customer has already agreed to.

## Sizes and conditions

Rooms are not all the same size and not all in the same state, so the library
does not try to hold a separate template for every combination. Instead, each
room on a quote carries a **size** and a **condition** multiplier — a large room
takes longer than a medium one, an extreme-condition room longer still. Those
multipliers are applied by the system rather than typed in, which is why a
mis-keyed number can never produce an absurd price.
[Pricing a quote](/docs/pricing-a-quote) covers how they combine.

## Letting the app tune the times for you

The app records how long visits actually take when they are marked complete, and
compares that with what was estimated. On a paid plan with AI assists switched
on, it will suggest bounded adjustments to your task times from that comparison
— which you accept or dismiss one at a time. Quotes you have already sent never
change; only the ones you send next get sharper. See
[AI assists](/docs/ai-assists).