Birmingham, AL
KITCHEN REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Kitchen Remodel Estimating in Birmingham, AL Birmingham's housing stock tells a specific story. You're working in Crestwood bungalows from the 1940s, Mountain Brook colonials with galley kitchens that haven't been touched since 1987, and new construction out in Trussville and Gardendale. Each job type carries different demo scopes, different subfloor conditions, and different lead times from your Birmingham-area suppliers. That range makes accurate estimating harder than it sounds. A flat-rate template built for Phoenix or Charlotte doesn't account for the plaster-and-lath walls you'll find in Avondale, or the crawlspace moisture issues common in older Homewood properties that add blocking and subfloor work before you even touch a cabinet. Estimate.Pro is built for that variability. ### From Walkthrough to Bid in 8 Minutes You do a site visit. You open the app. You walk the space while AR measurement captures dimensions on supported devices — walls, windows, soffits, the peninsula that's coming out. For camera-only measurements, the app marks those as estimates so you know exactly where to double-check before you send. The AI scope-of-work engine reads your walkthrough notes and generates a line-item draft: demo, cabinet install, countertop fabrication, tile backsplash, plumbing rough-in, electrical circuits for new appliances, and finish work. You review it. You adjust unit costs to match what you actually pay at your local suppliers. You send. Median time from walkthrough start to sendable bid: 8 minutes. ### Material Costs Tied to What You Pay Locally Estimate.Pro includes a saved material cost workspace. You enter what you pay for semi-custom cabinet boxes from your Birmingham-area cabinet house, your countertop fabricator's current per-square-foot rate for quartz, and your tile supplier's current price on the backsplash SKUs you use most. Those numbers stay in your workspace and populate your next estimate automatically. When material prices shift — and they have shifted hard over the past few years — you update one line in your workspace and every future estimate reflects it. No rebuilding templates from scratch. ### Jefferson County Permit Scope Kitchen remodels in Birmingham often cross multiple permit types. A full gut-and-rebuild typically requires a building permit through the Jefferson County Building Department (or City of Birmingham Permits and Inspections if the property sits within city limits), plus separate electrical and plumbing permits when you're moving circuits or relocating the sink. Estimate.Pro lets you add permit fees as a line item with your own markup — so they appear on the client-facing estimate exactly as you want them to. If your job includes a range hood tied into a new circuit or a dedicated 240V circuit for a wall oven, you're under NEC 2020 as adopted by Alabama. That's a separate electrical permit. Build it into the estimate before the client sees the number, not after. ### Pricing Tiers That Match Where You Are If you're a solo kitchen remodeler running two or three jobs at a time, the Free tier costs nothing and requires no credit card. It handles the core walkthrough-to-estimate workflow. When you're ready to send invoices and get paid faster, Pro at $39 per seat per month adds full invoice exports. Elite at $79 per seat per month adds Stripe Connect so clients can pay directly through the estimate — at 0% platform fee on that tier. If you run a crew with multiple estimators, Crew is $399 per month flat regardless of seat count. ### What Birmingham Kitchen Remodelers Actually Use It For The contractors using Estimate.Pro in this market are running mid-range to upper-mid-range kitchen remodels — the $35,000 to $90,000 range where the client has a specific vision, supply chain delays are a real risk, and a vague estimate loses the job to whoever showed up with a cleaner number. The app handles: - Demo and disposal (dumpster days, haul-off) - Cabinet procurement and install (base, wall, tall) - Countertop templating and fabrication allowances - Tile work (backsplash, floor tile with ANSI A108 setting standards referenced in your notes) - Plumbing rough-in and finish (sink, dishwasher, ice maker line) - Electrical (dedicated circuits, under-cabinet lighting, recessed layout) - Drywall and paint - Appliance delivery coordination line items Every line is editable. Nothing is locked. You know your market better than any algorithm does — the app just gets you to a solid draft fast so you're spending time on client relationships, not spreadsheets. ### Start Free No credit card. No trial period that expires. Build your first Birmingham kitchen estimate today and see where the 8-minute number lands for your workflow.