Detroit, MI
BATH REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Bath Remodel Estimating in Detroit Moves Fast — Your Bid Has to Move Faster Detroit's housing stock is among the oldest in the Midwest. The city's median home age puts a lot of your work inside pre-1960 bathrooms: cast-iron tubs that need demo labor priced separately, galvanized supply lines that reveal themselves mid-job, and tile set in mud-bed mortar that adds hours to a simple tub surround swap. If your estimate doesn't account for that upfront, you eat it on the back end. Estimate.Pro is built for exactly this kind of job. Walk the bathroom, capture measurements with your phone's camera, and the app builds a scope-of-work draft while you're still on site. Median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid is 8 minutes. ## What Detroit Bath Remodelers Are Actually Bidding Against Wayne County permit fees run $75–$150 for a standard bath remodel permit depending on project valuation, and Detroit's Department of Buildings, Safety Engineering and Environmental Department (BSEED) requires a licensed residential builder or specialty contractor to pull permits on any work that touches plumbing or electrical. If you're a specialty sub doing the tile and fixtures while the GC pulls the permit, you still need your scope documented cleanly — because the GC's markup depends on your number being tight. Labor rates in the Detroit metro for skilled tile setters and finish carpenters run $55–$75 per hour depending on union affiliation and whether you're working inside the city proper or in Oakland or Macomb counties. Estimate.Pro lets you save a material cost workspace with your local supplier pricing — Ferguson, Ramco, or whoever you buy from — so you're not rebuilding your cost sheet from scratch every bid. ## Older Homes Mean More Line Items A Detroit bath remodel scope commonly includes: - **Asbestos abatement allowance** — floor tile mastic in homes built before 1978 frequently tests positive. You need a line item, not a verbal disclaimer. - **Subfloor replacement** — decades of slow leaks around wax rings and supply shut-offs mean rotted subfloor is the rule, not the exception. - **Galvanized pipe upgrade** — Detroit Water and Sewerage Department pressure can expose pinhole failures the moment you touch old galvanized supply lines. - **Exhaust fan rough-in** — Michigan Residential Code R303.3 requires mechanical ventilation in bathrooms without operable windows. Many older Detroit homes have neither. Estimate.Pro's bath remodel scope template surfaces all of these as optional line items during the walkthrough. You check what applies, enter quantities, and the AI-generated scope-of-work writes the customer-facing description automatically. ## AR Measurement on Supported Devices For tile and flooring calculations, accurate square footage is the difference between a profitable job and giving away material. On supported devices, Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to read the room as you walk it. On older phones, camera and photo measurements are clearly marked as estimates — you know exactly what's confirmed and what needs a tape check. ## Pricing That Fits a Small Crew Estimate.Pro runs on a free forever tier — no credit card, no trial clock. When your volume justifies it, Pro is $39 per seat per month and drops the Stripe Connect platform fee to 0% (the Free tier runs 3%). Elite at $79 per seat adds invoice exports and full Stripe Connect workflows. If you're running a crew of estimators, Crew tier is $399 flat per month for the whole team. There's no per-bid fee. Bid as many Detroit bathrooms as you can find. ## Built for the Detroit Market Detroit's renovation market has real momentum. The city's population stabilization and continued investment in neighborhoods like Sherwood Forest, University District, and the Morningside corridor means homeowners are putting money into houses they plan to stay in. A clean, professional estimate — one that shows you've accounted for the quirks of an 80-year-old bathroom — closes more of those jobs than a ballpark number on a legal pad. Estimate.Pro gives you a bid that looks like you've been doing this for 30 years, even if you're still building your reputation in the market. Start free. No card required.