Orlando, FL
NEW ADDITIONS ESTIMATING.

## Addition Estimating in Orlando Moves Fast — Your Bids Have to Keep Up Orlando's residential market has been running hot for years. New residents, aging subdivisions in Windermere, Dr. Phillips, and Lake Nona, and a steady pipeline of growing families all translate into demand for additions — master suites, in-law units, screen enclosures converted to conditioned space, and second-story bump-outs. That demand means competition. Other addition contractors in the metro are quoting the same jobs you want. The contractor who gets the scope right and delivers a clean number first usually wins the work. Estimate.Pro is built to get you from jobsite walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That's not a marketing number — it's the median across the platform. --- ## What Makes Addition Estimating Different in Orlando **Florida Building Code 2023 drives your scope.** Every addition in Orange County must comply with FBC 2023, including Chapter 5 for structural loads, wind speed requirements for the Orlando area (design wind speed 140 mph per ASCE 7-22 for most residential zones), and energy compliance under FBC Energy — Residential. Miss a line item for hurricane strapping, impact-rated windows, or blower-door testing and your margin disappears on change orders. Estimate.Pro's scope-of-work generator prompts for FBC-specific line items — wind bracing, tie-downs, continuous load path requirements — so they're in your bid before you submit, not after the inspector flags them. **Orange County permitting adds real cost and time.** A residential addition permit through Orange County Building Division carries plan review fees, permit fees calculated per square foot, and — for additions over a threshold square footage — mandatory energy calculations. Subcontractor pulls for MEP work (mechanical, electrical, plumbing) are separate permits. Factoring those fees into a client-facing estimate is tedious when you're doing it from memory. Estimate.Pro keeps a saved material and cost workspace so your standard permit fee line items are already loaded when you start a new bid. **Labor rates here are not the statewide average.** Orlando's construction labor market has tightened since 2021. Framing crews, tile setters, and finish carpenters all command rates above the Florida median. If you're pricing additions using outdated figures, you're either eating overruns or pricing yourself out of jobs you could've won. Your Estimate.Pro workspace stores your actual subcontractor rates, not a generic regional number. **Lot constraints vary wildly by subdivision.** HOA setback rules in communities like Baldwin Park or Celebration add scope that subdivision-naive contractors miss — site surveys, HOA architectural review submissions, and sometimes structural peer review. The AR measurement tool in Estimate.Pro lets you capture existing footprint dimensions on a walkthrough, flagging them as estimates when camera-only measurement is used, so you're not scaling off a PDF all night. --- ## Calculators and Workflows Built for Addition Contractors **Scope-of-work AI.** Walk the job, note existing conditions, and let Estimate.Pro generate a structured scope covering demo, foundation work, framing, sheathing, roofing tie-in, insulation (per FBC Energy), windows and doors, MEP rough-ins, and finishes. You edit — you don't start from a blank sheet. **AR measurement.** On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement captures room dimensions during the walkthrough. Camera and photo measurements are clearly marked as estimates in the output, which means your client sees an honest number, not a fabricated precision. **Material cost workspace.** Store your lumber, concrete, drywall, and subcontractor rates. When material costs shift — and in Orlando's market they do — you update one place and every future bid reflects current numbers. **Stripe Connect invoicing (Pro+ and Elite).** When the bid turns into a signed contract, send a deposit invoice without leaving the platform. Elite tier carries a 0% platform fee on payments processed through Stripe Connect. Pro tier carries 3% on processed volume. Free tier is available at $0, no credit card required, to see whether the workflow fits before you commit. **Crew pricing.** If you run multiple estimators or project managers, the Crew plan at $399/month flat covers the full team. Solo operators and small shops run on Pro at $39/seat/month or Elite at $79/seat/month. --- ## What Orlando Addition Contractors Ask Before Switching Addition contractors in this market ask whether the software handles the complexity of tie-in work — where a new structure meets an existing one and the scope of unknowns is real. Estimate.Pro builds contingency line items into the scope template so you're not absorbing surprises that should've been a line in the contract. They also ask about permit coordination. The software doesn't file permits for you, but it produces a scope and cost breakdown organized by trade division — which is exactly the format Orange County plan reviewers and MEP subcontractors need to quote from. Start free. No credit card. Build your first Orlando addition bid and see what 8 minutes actually looks like.