New York, NY
IRRIGATION / SPRINKLER ESTIMATING.

## Irrigation Estimating in New York Is Not Like Anywhere Else New York City sits on a patchwork of soil types — glacial outwash in Queens, heavy clay fill across much of Brooklyn, compacted urban subgrade in Manhattan. Before you price a single zone, you need to know what you're drilling into and how that affects head spacing, pipe sizing, and run times. A generic spreadsheet does not know the difference. Estimate.Pro does not make assumptions about your site. You walk the property, capture measurements with the AR tool on supported devices, and the app builds a scope of work that reflects what you actually found — not a template from a suburban job in another state. ## What Makes Sprinkler Bids Hard in the Five Boroughs **Right-of-way and DOT coordination.** Any time irrigation work crosses the public right-of-way — tapping a municipal water main, trenching under a sidewalk — you are dealing with New York City Department of Transportation permits on top of DEP filings. That paperwork adds cost. Your estimate needs a line item for it, or your margin disappears before you break ground. **Backflow preventer requirements.** New York City DEP requires a tested, approved backflow prevention assembly on every irrigation connection to the potable supply. The device itself, the annual test, and the certified tester are all billable items. Estimating software that does not surface these will leave money on the table. **Water pressure variability.** Static pressure in NYC street mains ranges from roughly 40 PSI in some residential Queens blocks to over 80 PSI in parts of the Bronx depending on elevation and main vintage. Dynamic pressure at the point of connection varies further. You need to size your pressure-reducing valve and zone manifolds accordingly — and price that labor correctly. **Seasonal shutdown and startup.** NYC winters require full winterization of every system. Compressed-air blowout service is a recurring revenue line that belongs in every multi-season maintenance contract you write. Build it into the original estimate as an optional add-on and close it at signing. ## How Estimate.Pro Handles This When you open a new irrigation job in Estimate.Pro, you get a structured walkthrough that asks the right questions in the right order: water source, static pressure at meter, soil classification, turf vs. drip zones, existing hardscape, and permit jurisdiction. The AI scope engine turns your answers into a draft line-item estimate — materials, labor, permit allowances, and backflow compliance — in a single pass. Median time from walkthrough start to a sendable bid: **8 minutes**. AR measurement on supported devices lets you pace off zones and pipe runs on-site and get dimensioned sketches marked as field-measured. Photos taken without AR support are flagged as estimates so you know exactly which numbers need verification before you finalize pricing. Your saved material cost workspace stores your supplier pricing — your Ewing or SiteOne account rates, not national averages. Every estimate pulls from your actual numbers. ## Pricing That Does Not Punish You for Growing - **Free tier:** core estimating, no credit card, no time limit. - **Pro at $39/seat/month:** full AR measurement, unlimited jobs. - **Elite at $79/seat/month:** Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee, invoice exports, advanced workflows. - **Crew at $399/month flat:** covers your whole crew, no per-seat math. Stripe Connect on the Free tier carries a 3% platform fee. Pro and above: $0. ## NYC Irrigation Contractors Who Should Use This If you are bidding residential lawn irrigation in Nassau County overflow work, commercial landscape contracts in Midtown, rooftop drip systems in Long Island City, or athletic field irrigation for Parks Department jobs, the estimating variables are different in each case. Estimate.Pro keeps those jobs separate, priced correctly, and ready to send before a competitor submits a number. Start free. No credit card. First bid in under ten minutes.