San Antonio, TX
IRRIGATION / SPRINKLER ESTIMATING.

## Irrigation Estimating in San Antonio Is Its Own Problem San Antonio sits on the Balcones Escarpment. One job you're trenching through expansive black clay in the South Side. The next you're cutting through caliche hardpan in Helotes or Boerne road. Material haul, trench depth, and bit wear vary block by block. A flat-rate template built for Houston clay or Dallas loam will under-price you before the first head is set. Then there's water. The Edwards Aquifer Authority (EAA) and San Antonio Water System (SAWS) both regulate irrigation installations here. SAWS requires a licensed irrigator — holding a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) irrigator license — on every commercial and residential system. Backflow prevention assemblies must be tested annually, and SAWS enforces Stage 1 through Stage 4 drought restrictions that directly affect how you schedule systems and what controllers you can spec. If you're bidding a Hunter or Rain Bird smart-controller upgrade, you need to know whether SAWS rebate eligibility changes the net cost your client sees. Bexar County pull fees and city of San Antonio development services permits add another layer. A new install on a commercial property can require separate plan review beyond the standard irrigation permit. Miss it on your bid and you're eating that cost. ## What Estimate.Pro Does for You You start with a jobsite walkthrough. On supported devices, the app uses ONNX-assisted live AR measurement so you can pace zones, flag head locations, and capture lateral footage without a separate takeoff tool. On older phones, camera-based measurements are marked as estimates — you'll see exactly which numbers need a field verify before you send. The AI scope-of-work builder reads your walkthrough data and drafts line items: zone count, head type and spacing, mainline and lateral footage, valve manifolds, backflow preventer, controller, wire runs, and sleeving under hardscape. You edit. The system prices against your saved material cost workspace — your actual supplier pricing from Ewing, SiteOne, or wherever you buy — not a national average that doesn't match what you paid last Tuesday. Median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid: 8 minutes. For TCEQ compliance language, license number fields, and the backflow preventer callout required on SAWS submittals, those are built into the irrigation scope template. You're not writing that from scratch on every job. ## Pricing That Fits a Solo Irrigator or a Crew The Free tier costs nothing, no credit card required. It gets you in the door and lets you build real bids. Pro is $39 per seat per month. Elite is $79 per seat per month and adds Stripe Connect invoicing (0% platform fee on Pro+), invoice exports, and the full workflow for collecting deposits and progress payments — useful when you're running a multi-phase commercial install across multiple Bexar County zones. If you're running multiple crews, Crew is $399 per month flat regardless of seat count. ## San Antonio Seasonality Irrigation demand in San Antonio clusters hard in two windows: March through May as residents activate dormant systems before the 100-degree stretch, and September through October for winterization and end-of-season repairs before the first freeze. That spring rush is when you're most likely to under-scope a job because you're moving fast. Having a repeatable 8-minute bid process matters most right there. Drought surcharges from SAWS and EAA restrictions also shift what you can install mid-summer. Knowing current restriction stages when you're writing a bid lets you note controller scheduling requirements upfront, which reduces callbacks. ## Built for 25 Trades Including Irrigation Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Irrigation is one of them, not an afterthought. The scope templates reference zone design logic, head precipitation rates, and the backflow and licensing language your SAWS submittal expects. You're not adapting a generic construction estimator — you're starting from a template that already knows what an irrigation bid in Texas needs to say.