Portland, OR
BATH REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Bath Remodel Estimating in Portland, OR Portland's bath remodel market runs on tight margins and a competitive bid pool. You're pricing against other licensed contractors who know the same subs, the same tile suppliers on SE Powell, and the same permit window at the Portland Bureau of Development Services. The difference between winning and losing a bid is often how fast and how accurately you put numbers on paper. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That's not a marketing target — it's the median across real contractors using the app. --- ### What Makes Bath Remodel Estimating Different in Portland **Permit costs add up fast.** Portland BDS charges a mechanical permit on top of the building permit for any bath work touching HVAC or gas lines, and a separate plumbing permit for drain and supply modifications. Estimators who miss these line items hand margin back to the city. The Estimate.Pro scope builder prompts you to flag permit-required work so nothing falls off the bid. **Oregon requires licensed tradespeople for sub-work.** Any plumbing or electrical in a bath remodel must be performed by Oregon CCB-licensed contractors. If you're a GC pulling those subs, your estimate needs to reflect their markup on top of your own. Estimate.Pro supports multi-trade scoping in a single job file — you can line-item the plumber's rough-in separately from tile, fixtures, and finish carpentry without rebuilding the estimate from scratch. **Material costs here are not national averages.** Pacific Northwest lumber and tile pricing tracks Pacific Coast supply chains, not Midwest or Southeast benchmarks. Estimate.Pro gives you a saved material cost workspace where you enter your actual supplier pricing — Floor & Decor on NE Columbia, Emery & Henry, or whoever you're buying from — and those numbers stay with your account. You're not estimating off stale national data. **Older housing stock means unknowns.** Portland's inner eastside and close-in westside neighborhoods are dense with pre-1960 homes. Walk into a bath remodel and you may find galvanized supply lines, no subfloor blocking, or knob-and-tube adjacent to the wet wall. The AI scope builder lets you flag scope contingencies and add allowance line items mid-walkthrough so the client sees a realistic number, not a lowball that blows up at demo. --- ### How the App Works on a Portland Bath Job 1. **Walkthrough** — Open Estimate.Pro on your phone. Walk the bathroom. Use AR measurement on supported devices to capture dimensions without a tape. Camera and photo measurements are clearly marked as estimates so you know what to verify before finalizing. 2. **AI Scope-of-Work** — The app reads your inputs and drafts a line-by-line scope: demo, waterproofing, CBU, tile, fixtures, plumbing rough-in flag, electrical GFCI note, paint, and any contingencies you flagged. You review and edit. Nothing ships without your sign-off. 3. **Price It** — Your saved material costs populate automatically. Labor rates are yours to set — input what you actually pay Portland tile setters and finish carpenters, not a national estimate. The system does the math. 4. **Send It** — Export a clean, client-ready PDF or push to invoice. Pro and Elite plans include Stripe Connect for in-app payment collection. The platform fee is 0% on Pro+ tiers — Stripe's processing rate is the only cost. --- ### Pricing That Fits a Small Portland Bath Remodel Operation - **Free** — No credit card. No time limit. Good for contractors who want to test the workflow before committing. - **Pro — $39/seat/month** — Full AI scope generation, saved material costs, unlimited bids. - **Elite — $79/seat/month** — Adds Stripe Connect invoice exports and advanced workflow tools. - **Crew — $399/month flat** — Covers your whole team, no per-seat counting. There is no setup fee and no contract. --- ### Built for 25 Trades, Including Bath If you also run kitchen remodels, tile work, or general residential remodeling, your other scopes live in the same platform. Twenty-five trades are supported. One login, one material cost library, one place to store your bids. Portland bath remodelers compete on speed and accuracy. Get the estimate out the door while the homeowner is still standing in their own bathroom.