New York, NY
HARDSCAPING / PAVERS ESTIMATING.

## Hardscape Estimating in New York Is Not Like Anywhere Else You are not bidding in the suburbs. You are working in a city where a 400-square-foot brownstone patio counts as a major project, where DOT encroachment permits exist before your first paver is set, and where labor runs $85–$110 per hour for experienced hardscape crews. Every bid you send has to be tight. Estimate.Pro is built for hardscape contractors who work in dense, permitting-heavy metros. You walk the site, capture measurements with AR or photos, and the app builds a scoped estimate — flagging materials, base prep, drainage allowances, and labor — in a median of 8 minutes from walkthrough to sendable bid. ## What Makes New York Hardscape Bidding Different **Site access is a cost line, not a footnote.** Deliveries to Manhattan, Brooklyn, or the Bronx often require scheduling, flaggers, or sidewalk shed coordination with the NYC Department of Buildings. If you are not building that into your unit costs, you are eating it on every job. Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace lets you store your actual landed cost per paver, per ton of stone dust, per yard of crusher run — your New York prices, not national averages. **Permits are specific.** NYC Buildings Department requires a permit for most constructed surfaces that affect drainage or are attached to a structure. A bluestone terrace on a Park Slope townhouse is not the same filing as a driveway apron in Staten Island. The app generates written scopes of work you can hand to a permit expediter or include directly in a DOB filing package. **ICPI standards apply here.** Whether you are setting concrete pavers on a residential terrace or natural stone on a commercial plaza, Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute base preparation specs are the baseline your engineer and your client's architect will reference. Estimate.Pro's hardscape workflows reference ICPI guidelines for base depth, compaction layers, and edge restraint runs — so your scope reads like it was written by someone who knows the trade. ## AR Measurement in Tight Spaces New York hardscape jobs often happen in spaces where pulling a tape is slow and laser distance meters bounce off glass. On supported devices, Estimate.Pro uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement to capture patio dimensions, step runs, and retaining wall faces directly from your phone camera. When you are working from photos — aerial shots, customer images, pre-job walkthroughs — those measurements are marked as estimates in the bid, so your client understands the basis. ## From Estimate to Invoice Without a Platform Fee If you are on the Pro plan at $39 per seat per month, you get full estimating workflows and Stripe Connect payments at a 3% platform fee. On Elite at $79 per seat per month, that fee drops to 0% — meaning you keep the full invoice amount on every paver job you close. Crew pricing runs $399 per month flat for teams that need multiple seats under one shop. There is also a Free forever tier — no credit card, no trial clock. You can build your first hardscape estimate today before you spend a dollar. ## Built for the 25 Trades That Work Alongside You Hardscape jobs in New York rarely stay contained. A brownstone backyard renovation involves hardscape, drainage, landscape lighting, and often structural work on the rear facade. Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades in a single platform, so when a client asks you to coordinate the whole project, you can build sub-scopes for each trade without switching tools. ## Start With Your Next New York Bid If your current process is a spreadsheet, a legal pad, or waiting until you are back at the truck to write anything down, you are leaving money on the table — not because of inefficiency in the abstract, but because slow bids in New York get beaten by faster ones. A competitor who sends a detailed, ICPI-referenced, permit-ready estimate the same afternoon as the walkthrough is going to win jobs you could have had. Estimate.Pro gets you to that same-day bid without adding office hours to your week.