Chicago, IL
BATH REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Bath Remodel Estimating in Chicago Moves Fast — Your Bids Should Too Chicago's remodeling market is dense and competitive. You're bidding against other licensed bath remodelers across 77 neighborhoods, from Wicker Park gut-rehabs to Lincoln Park condo refreshes to South Side two-flat renovations. Homeowners here get multiple quotes. If your bid takes three days to land, it often doesn't land at all. Estimate.Pro puts a sendable bid in your hands in 8 minutes — median time from walkthrough to client-ready scope. --- ## What Makes Bath Estimating Different in Chicago **Old housing stock changes your material assumptions.** Chicago's median home age skews well over 60 years. Behind that tile, you're likely to find cast-iron drain lines, galvanized supply piping, or knob-and-tube wiring that has to come out before a tile setter touches anything. Your estimate needs line items for discovery and remediation work before you can price the finish scope. Estimate.Pro's bath remodel workflow lets you build conditional line items for unknown conditions — so the client understands what they're authorizing and you're not eating surprise costs. **Chicago permits have specific requirements.** The City of Chicago requires a building permit for bath remodels that involve structural changes, drain relocation, or electrical work beyond simple fixture replacement. Work must comply with the Chicago Building Code (CBC), which adopts and amends the International Building Code with local amendments. Plumbing work in Chicago falls under the Illinois State Plumbing Code and requires a licensed plumber — not just a handyman. When you build a scope in Estimate.Pro, you can tag permit-required line items so the client sees exactly what triggers city review. **Labor rates here are not national averages.** Union density in Chicago's trades is real. Tile setters, licensed plumbers, and electricians in Cook County carry higher prevailing wage expectations than rural Illinois or national cost-data averages suggest. If you're pricing a Chicago bath off generic software defaults, you're either eating margin or padding so aggressively you lose bids. Estimate.Pro uses a saved material cost workspace you control — you enter your actual supplier quotes and subcontractor rates, so every estimate reflects what you actually pay in the Chicago market. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Bath Remodelers **Walkthrough → AR Measurement → Scope → Price → Send** On a supported device, Estimate.Pro's ONNX-assisted live AR measurement captures floor area, wall square footage, and fixture counts while you're still standing in the bathroom. On other devices, camera and photo measurements are captured and marked as estimates. Either way, you leave the bathroom with the numbers — not a legal pad full of scribbles to decode back at the truck. The AI scope-of-work generator builds a line-item list from what you captured: demo, substrate prep, waterproofing membrane, tile installation, grout, fixture rough-in, finish plumbing, electrical (if applicable), accessories, and cleanup. You review, adjust, and approve. The estimate prices out against your saved cost workspace. Total time: 8 minutes for the median bath remodel bid. --- ## Pricing That Makes Sense for Solo Remodelers and Crews - **Free forever** — no credit card, no expiration, real bids - **Pro at $39/seat/month** — full estimating workflow, Stripe Connect at 3% platform fee - **Elite at $79/seat/month** — Stripe Connect at 0% platform fee, invoice exports - **Crew at $399/month flat** — covers your whole team, one bill If you're running volume, the 0% platform fee on Elite pays for itself fast. A bath remodel averaging $18,000 and ten jobs a month is $5,400/year in platform fees at 3%. Elite closes that gap in the first month. --- ## Built for the Chicago Market You're bidding in a city where a vintage Pilsen bathroom tile job and a River North high-rise gut-rehab are both called "bath remodels" — and they price nothing alike. Estimate.Pro gives you a workflow specific to the bath trade, with room for the local variables Chicago actually throws at you: old pipe conditions, inspector timelines, union sub rates, and condo association approval paperwork that adds three weeks to your start date. Your next bid shouldn't take longer than your next coffee run. Start free. No credit card.