Baltimore, MD
KITCHEN REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Kitchen Remodel Estimating in Baltimore, MD Baltimore is rowhouse country. Most of your jobs are gut kitchens inside 100-year-old brick shells — narrow galley layouts, plaster walls hiding knob-and-tube, cast-iron drain stacks that haven't moved since Prohibition. Every variable that makes a kitchen remodel complicated is amplified here. You can't price a Baltimore kitchen the same way you'd price a suburb tract home. The scope changes the moment you open a wall. Your bid has to account for that before you ever pull a permit. ### What Makes Baltimore Kitchen Estimating Different **Rowhouse constraints drive scope creep.** Party walls, shared joists, and tight egress mean structural surprises are the rule, not the exception. A good estimate builds in contingency line items before the GC asks for them. **Baltimore City permit fees are flat-rate by valuation band.** A kitchen remodel valued between $10,000 and $50,000 currently runs in the $200–$400 range through Baltimore City's Department of Housing and Community Development. Work in Baltimore County falls under a separate fee schedule. Knowing which jurisdiction you're in before you bid saves a real conversation later. **Lead paint abatement adds cost.** Homes built before 1978 — which covers the majority of Baltimore's housing stock — require Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) lead paint disclosure and, on disturb-and-replace scopes, certified renovation work under RRP (EPA 40 CFR Part 745). Budget that into demo and prep labor on every older rowhouse job. **Labor runs tight in the metro.** Skilled finish carpenters and tile setters in the Baltimore-Towson metro are billing at $65–$95/hr depending on specialization. Cabinet installation crews with union affiliation through Carpenters Local 101 are at the higher end of that band. If you're subing out rough electrical or plumbing, expect licensed Baltimore City master license holders to run $85–$115/hr on kitchen circuits and fixture rough-ins. ### How Estimate.Pro Works for Kitchen Remodelers Open the app, walk the kitchen, and let the AR measurement tool capture your cabinet runs, island footprint, and ceiling height. On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement gives you dimensions you can trust. On older phones, camera and photo measurements are clearly marked as estimates — you'll know exactly where to verify with a tape. From there, the AI scope-of-work engine builds your line items: demo, rough-in, cabinet supply and installation, countertop fabrication, backsplash, appliance hookups, punch-list. You review, adjust for your Baltimore-specific material costs, and send. Median time from walkthrough to sendable bid is 8 minutes. Your saved material cost workspace holds your supplier pricing — whether you're buying cabinets from a local dealer on Pulaski Highway or pulling sheet goods from a regional lumber yard. No re-keying prices job to job. ### Pricing That Works for Smaller Crews If you're running one or two trucks, the Free tier costs nothing and requires no credit card. Pro is $39/seat/month. Elite is $79/seat/month and adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee — critical when you're collecting deposits on $40,000 kitchen jobs and don't want to hand 3% to a platform on every draw. Crew is $399/month flat for larger operations running multiple estimators across jobs. ### Built for 25 Trades, Tuned for Kitchens Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. Kitchen remodel sits alongside rough and finish carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and tile — the full stack of subs you're coordinating on any full kitchen scope. You can hand a sub a scoped line item export instead of a phone call. Baltimore kitchen remodelers deal with enough variables on-site. Your estimate shouldn't be one of them.