Orlando, FL
IRRIGATION / SPRINKLER ESTIMATING.

## Irrigation Estimating in Orlando Moves Fast Orlando's construction pace is relentless. New residential subdivisions push west toward Horizon West and south toward St. Cloud every quarter. Commercial buildouts along the I-4 corridor add landscaped medians, retention pond buffers, and HOA-mandated turf zones that all require permitted irrigation systems. If you're quoting three jobs a week and building each estimate by hand, you're leaving money on the table — or worse, you're underpricing and eating the loss. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That's not a marketing number. It's the median time our irrigation contractors actually hit. ## What Makes Orlando Irrigation Bids Different **Water management rules add scope.** The St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) mandates micro-irrigation or low-volume heads for certain landscape zones, rain sensor shutoff devices on all new systems, and landscape irrigation permits through Orange County Building Division. Forgetting a rain sensor in your scope isn't just a code miss — it's a callback and a reinspection fee. Estimate.Pro lets you build those line items into your saved material workspace so they appear automatically on every residential quote. **Sandy soil and Florida's Flatwoods soil types change head spacing.** The low permeability of Myakka fine sand — the state soil of Florida and common across Orange County — affects precipitation rate calculations and run times. Your zone layouts account for this. Your estimate should too. When you specify rotary heads vs. fixed spray vs. drip at different spacings, Estimate.Pro captures each head type as a discrete line item with your saved cost data. **Reclaimed water zones require separate materials.** Orange County Utilities runs one of the largest reclaimed water systems in the country. Many commercial and newer residential sites in Orlando connect irrigation to the purple-pipe reclaimed system. That means dual backflow preventers, purple-coded valve boxes, and FDEP-compliant cross-connection controls — all different SKUs and labor rates than a potable-feed install. Build one reclaimed-water template, save it, and pull it every time. **Summer storm season compresses your installation window.** June through September brings daily afternoon thunderstorms averaging over 50 inches of annual rainfall concentrated in those months. Crews lose afternoon hours. Trenching in saturated ground costs more time. Your estimates need to reflect realistic production rates for Central Florida summer conditions, not dry-season averages. ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Irrigation Contractors Start with a site walkthrough. Use the AR measurement tool on supported devices to capture zone boundaries and head locations. Camera or photo measurements are marked as estimates so you know exactly where to verify in the field. The AI scope-of-work engine reads your walkthrough notes and generates a structured line-item list: zones, heads by type, valves, controller, wire runs, backflow preventer, rain sensor, and trenching. You review it, adjust quantities, and apply your saved material costs from your Orlando supplier pricing. Labor rates, markup, and tax are set once in your workspace and applied automatically. When the bid is ready, you send it directly from the app. On the Free tier, there's no platform fee on payments processed through Stripe Connect — that's 3% on Free and 0% on Pro+ plans. Elite users get full invoice exports and advanced workflow controls. ## Pricing That Fits a Small Crew - **Free forever** — no credit card, no time limit, core estimating included - **Pro** — $39 per seat per month, saved cost workspace, faster workflows - **Elite** — $79 per seat per month, Stripe Connect at 0% fee, invoice exports - **Crew** — $399 per month flat for unlimited seats, built for growing operations If you're a solo irrigation contractor doing residential installs in Windermere or Winter Garden, the Free tier handles your volume. If you're running multiple crews on commercial HOA contracts in Lake Nona, Crew pricing gives you the seats without the per-head cost. ## Built for 25 Trades, Dialed for Irrigation Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Irrigation has its own workflow — zone-based takeoff, head-count pricing, controller and valve line items, and trenching by linear foot. The calculators reflect how irrigation contractors actually build estimates, not how a generic spreadsheet assumes you do. Orlando's growth isn't slowing. The contractors who bid fast and bid accurately are the ones picking up the new HOA contracts and the commercial landscape expansions. Start your first estimate free.