Miami, FL
IRRIGATION / SPRINKLER ESTIMATING.

## Irrigation Estimating in Miami Is Not Like the Rest of Florida Miami-Dade County operates under stricter water-use rules than most of the state. The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) enforces year-round irrigation schedules — two days per week for most residential parcels — and any new or modified system requires a permit through Miami-Dade's Building Department before the first head goes in the ground. That permit process adds time and paperwork that contractors elsewhere don't deal with at the same volume or frequency. The soil profile compounds the challenge. Much of Miami sits on porous oolitic limestone and sandy fill. Water moves through it fast. That changes head spacing, precipitation rate calculations, and how you spec pressure-compensating emitters for drip zones. If you're bidding from a template built for Georgia clay, your margins are going to bleed. Estimate.Pro lets you build material cost workspaces that match your actual supplier pricing — whether you're pulling from SiteOne on NW 107th, Ewing in Doral, or a local wholesale account. You adjust once, and every estimate you build reflects your real numbers, not national averages. ## The 8-Minute Bid Target The median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid on Estimate.Pro is 8 minutes. For an irrigation contractor in Miami running back-to-back residential quotes in Coral Gables, Kendall, or Hialeah, that matters. You walk the property, take measurements through the AR tool on supported devices, and the app builds your scope of work. You review, adjust for site-specific conditions — a reclaimed water hookup on a Pinecrest estate, a rain sensor required under Florida Statute 373.62, a low-pressure well-fed system in unincorporated Miami-Dade — and you send. Camera and photo measurements are marked as estimates in the output, so your client knows what was field-verified and what was approximated. No false precision. ## What the App Builds for You For irrigation work, Estimate.Pro generates scope-of-work line items covering: - Zone layout and head count by type (rotors, fixed spray, drip, bubblers) - Controller and smart-timer spec, including Wi-Fi-enabled models compliant with SFWMD rebate programs - Backflow preventer selection sized to Miami-Dade plumbing code requirements - Main line and lateral sizing based on static pressure and flow rate inputs - Valve manifold and wire runs - Rain/freeze sensor line items (freeze sensors matter less in Miami than in North Florida, but rain sensors are legally required on all new installations under Florida law) - Startup, flush, and zone-by-zone coverage test You can save your preferred materials — specific Hunter, Rain Bird, or Toro heads you stock, your standard 1" Febco backflow preventer, your go-to 24-station controller — and the app prices against your saved workspace every time. ## Pricing That Fits a One-Crew Operation or a Multi-Truck Shop Estimate.Pro runs on a free forever tier — no credit card, no trial countdown. If you want Stripe Connect invoicing and export workflows, that's Elite at $79 per seat per month. The Pro tier is $39 per seat per month. For shops running multiple crews, the Crew plan is $399 per month flat regardless of seat count. Stripe Connect platform fees are 3% on Free and 0% on Pro and above. When a Miami property manager pays your invoice online, you keep what you earned. ## Miami-Dade Permitting Reality Miami-Dade Building Department requires a licensed irrigation contractor (or licensed plumbing/general contractor with irrigation work in scope) to pull permits for new irrigation systems. The contractor of record must hold a Miami-Dade Certificate of Competency or a state-issued Certified Plumbing Contractor license that covers irrigation. Underground work in right-of-way may require separate FDOT or Miami-Dade Public Works coordination depending on the property. Building your scope-of-work in Estimate.Pro before the permit application means you walk into the counter — or upload to the ePlan portal — with a detailed line-item document, not a handwritten notes page. That reduces back-and-forth with the plan reviewer. ## Reclaimed Water Zones Are a Real Line Item Here A significant portion of Miami-Dade's newer residential and commercial developments are plumbed for reclaimed water from Miami-Dade Water and Sewer's reuse system. Reclaimed connections require purple pipe, purple heads, and specific signage under FAC 62-610. That's a cost-line that doesn't exist on a generic national estimating template. In Estimate.Pro, you add it to your material workspace once and it appears in every applicable bid automatically. If you're quoting irrigation in Miami, you already know this work. The software should know it too.