Atlanta, GA
KITCHEN REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Atlanta kitchen remodelers spend too much time on bids they don't win The metro spans Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee counties. Each has its own permitting desk, fee schedule, and inspection timeline. A kitchen gut-and-rebuild in Buckhead carries different hard costs than the same scope in Decatur or Marietta. Your estimate has to reflect that — or you're either leaving money on the table or losing bids to someone who ran tighter numbers. Estimate.Pro gives you a field-ready scope-of-work and priced estimate in a median of 8 minutes from the end of your walkthrough. --- ## What makes kitchen estimating different in Atlanta **Labor rates move fast in a top-10 market.** Atlanta's construction labor market is one of the most active in the Southeast. Carpenter and tile-setter wages have climbed steadily alongside the metro's population growth. If your cost data is six months stale, your margin is thinner than your spreadsheet shows. Estimate.Pro lets you maintain a saved material and labor cost workspace so your numbers stay current to your last job, not last year's national average. **Permitting is county-by-county.** A kitchen remodel that touches electrical, plumbing, or structural work requires a permit in every jurisdiction in the Atlanta metro. The City of Atlanta (within Fulton County) charges a base building permit fee plus a per-thousand valuation fee. Cobb County and Gwinnett County run separate fee schedules. Inspections for electrical rough-in, plumbing rough-in, and final are standard requirements. If you're pulling permits across multiple counties in a week, those fees add up fast and need to be in the estimate before you send it. **Scope creep starts at demo.** Atlanta's housing stock is heavily weighted toward 1970s–1990s construction in established neighborhoods like Virginia-Highland, East Atlanta, and the suburbs of Sandy Springs. Behind cabinet soffits and original tile, you'll find knob-and-tube remnants, galvanized drain lines, and unlevel subfloors. Your estimate needs allowance line items for discovery conditions. The AI scope builder in Estimate.Pro prompts you to flag these during the walkthrough so the client sees them as conditional scope — not a change order that blindsides them at week three. **Client expectations are high-end.** The Atlanta luxury renovation market is active. Clients in Brookhaven and Alpharetta are comparing your bid against design-build firms with full-time estimators. A PDF with itemized scope, material allowances, and payment schedule looks different from a one-page number. Estimate.Pro produces a client-ready document from the same data you captured on-site. --- ## How Estimate.Pro works for kitchen remodelers 1. **Walk the kitchen.** Use AR measurement on supported devices to capture cabinet runs, island dimensions, and ceiling height. On older phones or from photos, measurements are marked as estimates — you stay honest with the client from the start. 2. **Build scope with AI.** The AI scope builder reads your measurements and notes, then drafts line items across demo, rough-in, cabinets, countertops, tile, appliances, and punch-out. You edit, not write from scratch. 3. **Price against your costs.** Your saved cost workspace holds the lumber, tile, cabinet, and labor rates you actually pay in this market. National averages don't run your business — your numbers do. 4. **Send the bid.** Export a clean client-facing estimate in PDF or link format. Pro plan is $39/seat/month. Elite at $79/seat/month adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee and full invoice exports. Free tier is available with no credit card required. --- ## Built for the full scope of a kitchen remodel Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. For a kitchen, that means you can run electrical scope, plumbing scope, and tile scope through the same platform — useful if you're a general contractor self-performing multiple trades or if you need to cross-check subs' numbers against your own line items. Relevant calculators and scope tools inside the app: - Cabinet linear footage and layout - Countertop square footage (with cutout deductions for sink and cooktop) - Tile field and backsplash takeoff - Rough-in plumbing fixture count - Electrical circuit count for kitchen circuits (aligned with NEC requirements for small appliance branch circuits and dedicated appliance circuits) - Ventilation and exhaust CFM allowance --- ## Start before your next Atlanta walkthrough The free tier costs nothing and requires no credit card. Set up your cost workspace with Atlanta-area labor and material rates, run one estimate, and compare it against your current process. Eight minutes is the median. Most contractors find their first real estimate takes under fifteen.