New York, NY
BATH REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Bath Remodel Estimating in New York Is Its Own Animal A gut bathroom in a Brooklyn brownstone is not the same job as a bath remodel in a Murray Hill co-op or a Bronx prewar walkup. Demo alone varies by floor, building age, and whether the super will let you use the freight elevator. Material lead times shift weekly in a market this dense. And every job touches at least two trades—tile, plumbing rough-in, electrical for GFCIs—which means your estimate has to be airtight before the GC or condo board even looks at it. Estimate.Pro is built for that reality. ## What the 8-Minute Estimate Actually Looks Like You walk the bathroom. You open the app. The AR measurement tool—running ONNX-assisted live detection on supported devices—captures wall dimensions, floor area, and ceiling height. Camera or photo measurements are flagged as estimates so you know exactly where to double-check before you send. From there, the AI scope-of-work generator reads the space and builds a line-item list: demo, waterproofing membrane, cement board, tile setting, grout, fixture rough-in, GFCI circuits per NEC 406.9, exhaust fan, trim. You adjust quantities, apply your saved material costs from your workspace, and the bid is ready. Median time from walkthrough to sendable bid: 8 minutes. No spreadsheet. No back-office call. You send from the job site while the homeowner is still standing there. ## Why New York Pricing Has to Be Local Material costs you find in a national database are wrong for New York. Union labor rates in the five boroughs run significantly higher than national averages. Tile setters working under the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Local 7 command rates that reflect the cost of operating in this market. Licensed master plumbers in NYC are required for any work that touches the drain-waste-vent system, and their time is priced accordingly. Estimate.Pro gives you a saved material cost workspace where you store your actual supplier prices from your local vendor—whether that's a tile distributor in the Garment District or a plumbing supply house in Long Island City. Your costs, not a national average that will get your bid laughed off a job. ## Permits and the NYC DOB Bath remodels in New York City trigger Department of Buildings filings more often than contractors expect. Any work involving plumbing alterations—relocating a drain, adding a wet wall—requires a licensed plumber to file with the NYC DOB and pull an Alt-2 or Alt-3 permit depending on scope. Electrical work requires a licensed master electrician filing. GFCI protection for all receptacles within 6 feet of a sink is mandatory under the NYC Electrical Code, which adopts NEC with local amendments. Buildings in historic districts—and New York has a lot of them—add Landmarks Preservation Commission review if the work affects the exterior or certain interior elements. Co-op and condo buildings layer their own alteration agreement process on top of the DOB filing. Your estimate needs to account for permit fees, filing time, and the licensed trade professionals those filings require. Estimate.Pro's scope generator includes permit line items so that cost doesn't disappear into your margin. ## Pre-War and High-Rise Conditions Pre-war buildings in Manhattan and the outer boroughs present specific field conditions: cast-iron drain stacks, galvanized supply lines, plaster walls over metal lath, and floor joists that run in unexpected directions. High-rise buildings add access restrictions—work hours capped by the building, material deliveries limited to specific windows, elevator reservations required. All of that is billable time. Your estimate should reflect it. When you build your scope in Estimate.Pro, you add those conditions as line items—building access fees, after-hours surcharges, specialty demo for plaster—and they stay in your template for the next job in the same building type. ## Payments and Invoicing on New York Jobs New York bath remodels at mid-range run $15,000 to $40,000 or more depending on finishes and building conditions. Progress billing is standard. Estimate.Pro's Pro+ and Elite tiers include Stripe Connect with a $0 platform fee on payments—you keep what you earn. Elite adds invoice exports compatible with your accountant's workflow. The Free tier costs nothing, requires no credit card, and lets you build and send estimates to see if the tool fits before you commit to a paid plan. ## Built for 25 Trades, Configured for Bath Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. The bath remodel workflow is specific: it knows the difference between a tile shower and a tub surround, between a vanity swap and a full plumbing relocation. You are not adapting a generic construction estimating tool to fit your trade. The scope templates, the calculator logic, and the line-item library are built for the work you actually do. If you are bidding bath remodels in New York and your estimate process takes longer than the client conversation, something is wrong. Fix that.