St. Louis, MO
BATH REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Bath Remodel Estimating in St. Louis Moves Fast — Your Bids Should Too St. Louis has one of the most active residential remodel markets in the Midwest. Older housing stock — much of it built between 1900 and 1960 — means bath remodels here rarely go by the book. You're pulling cast-iron tubs, dealing with knob-and-tube in older South City bungalows, and rerouting drain lines that were never where the drawings said they were. A flat-rate template from a generic estimating tool doesn't cut it. Estimate.Pro is built around how bath remodelers actually work in the field. You do a walkthrough, the app captures your scope, and you have a priced, sendable estimate in 8 minutes. ### What Makes St. Louis Bath Remodels Different St. Louis City and St. Louis County operate under separate permit jurisdictions. A job in Kirkwood follows St. Louis County rules. A job in Tower Grove follows the City of St. Louis Building Division. The permit fee structure, inspection sequence, and licensed contractor requirements differ between the two. If you're bidding across both jurisdictions — which most active bath remodelers are — you need an estimating workflow that lets you adjust for that without rebuilding your template from scratch. Missouri requires a licensed plumber for drain, waste, and vent work. Electrical work in a bathroom — GFCI protection, exhaust fan circuits — falls under the Missouri State Board of Electricians licensing requirements. On a full gut bath remodel, you're coordinating two licensed subs before your tile and fixture work even starts. Your estimate needs to account for those sub costs accurately, not as a lump-sum guess. Labor rates in the St. Louis metro sit below national averages, but material costs have tracked national trends since 2021. That gap matters when you're competing on price. Knowing your actual labor cost per hour for a tile setter versus a plumber — not a national benchmark — is the difference between a margin-positive job and a breakeven. ### How Estimate.Pro Handles This **AR Measurement on the Jobsite** On supported devices, Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR to measure your bath space during the walkthrough. Wall square footage, floor area, niche dimensions — captured in the field, not reconstructed from memory back at the truck. Camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates so you know what needs verification before you send. **Saved Material Cost Workspace** You store your actual material costs — the prices you pay at your St. Louis supplier, not published retail. When tile prices move, you update one line. Every estimate that uses that material updates automatically. **25 Trades, One Platform** Bath remodels routinely touch plumbing, electrical, tile, carpentry, and painting. Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. You can build a single estimate that covers every scope line without switching tools or copying numbers between spreadsheets. **AI Scope-of-Work Generation** After your walkthrough, the app generates a scope-of-work document from your inputs. Line items are specific: "Remove and dispose of existing 60" alcove tub" rather than "demo work." That specificity protects you when a client disputes what was included. **Stripe Connect for Payment Collection** Estimate.Pro's Elite tier integrates Stripe Connect for deposit collection and invoicing directly from the platform. Pro+ tiers carry a 0% platform fee on payments. The Free tier is 3%. No monthly fee on the Free tier — no credit card required to start. ### Pricing - **Free**: No credit card. No expiration. Core estimating features, 3% Stripe fee on payments. - **Pro**: $39/seat/month. Full estimating, saved cost workspace, all 25 trades. - **Elite**: $79/seat/month. Stripe Connect, invoice exports, 0% platform fee. - **Crew**: $399/month flat for teams. Unlimited seats. ### Start With One Estimate The Free tier costs nothing and requires no credit card. Run one bath remodel estimate on your next St. Louis job. Compare the time it takes against your current process. Eight minutes is the median. You'll know after the first walkthrough whether it fits how you work.