St. Louis, MO
KITCHEN REMODEL ESTIMATING.

## Kitchen Remodel Estimating in St. Louis St. Louis sits at a market crossroads. You're bidding kitchens in century-old brick two-flats in Soulard, post-war ranches in Webster Groves, and new construction in Chesterfield — sometimes in the same week. Each job type carries different structural conditions, different client expectations, and different cost profiles. A flat estimating template built for Phoenix or Charlotte does not serve you here. Estimate.Pro is built for the 25 trades that actually do this work. Kitchen remodeling is one of them. --- ## What Makes St. Louis Kitchen Bids Different **Older housing stock demands line-item discipline.** The St. Louis metro has a high concentration of pre-1960 homes. That means knob-and-tube wiring discoveries mid-demo, plaster-and-lath instead of drywall, and lead paint abatement requirements under the Missouri DHSS lead abatement rules. Every one of those is a change order waiting to happen if your original bid does not account for contingency labor and materials at the unit level. **Permit fees in St. Louis City vs. St. Louis County are not the same.** The City of St. Louis is an independent municipality, entirely separate from St. Louis County. That split means two different building departments, two different permit fee schedules, and two different inspection timelines. If you pull a permit in the city for a $40,000 kitchen remodel, you are working under St. Louis City Building Division — not the county. Your bid needs to reflect the correct jurisdiction from the first draft. **Labor costs run tighter margins than coastal markets.** St. Louis kitchen remodelers compete in a mid-tier labor market. The spread between what high-end clients will pay and what material costs demand is narrower than in Chicago or Denver. Mis-pricing a cabinet installation or tile square footage by 10% on a $35,000 job in Kirkwood can eliminate your margin entirely. Precision at the line-item level is not optional. --- ## How Estimate.Pro Works for Your Kitchen Jobs **Walk the job. Get a bid in 8 minutes.** The median time from walkthrough to a sendable bid on Estimate.Pro is 8 minutes. You walk the kitchen, use the AR measurement tool on supported devices to capture dimensions, and the app builds a scoped estimate. Camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates where exact AR detection is not available — so your client always knows what is confirmed vs. preliminary. **AI scope-of-work generation, specific to kitchens.** The AI reads your measurements and produces a scope-of-work covering demo, rough-in, cabinet installation, countertop fabrication, backsplash tile, appliance hookup, and finish work. You edit what does not apply. You do not start from a blank page. **Your saved material cost workspace.** St. Louis material pricing from your preferred suppliers stays in your workspace. Cabinet pricing from your local dealer, tile costs from your go-to distributor, countertop slab pricing — all of it lives in the platform. When costs change, you update once and every future estimate reflects it. **Flat Crew pricing for shops with multiple estimators.** If you run a crew of remodelers who all need to bid, the Crew plan is $399/month flat — no per-seat math as you add users. Pro is $39/seat/month. Elite is $79/seat/month and adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee and invoice export workflows. **Free tier available.** No credit card required to start. You can build and send a real kitchen estimate before you pay anything. --- ## Codes and Standards That Apply to St. Louis Kitchen Remodels Missouri has adopted the International Residential Code (IRC) with state amendments. St. Louis City enforces its own local amendments on top of that. Key items for kitchen scopes: - **Electrical:** Kitchen circuits must meet NEC requirements for dedicated 20-amp small appliance circuits and GFCI protection at all kitchen receptacles. If you're touching the panel, know which jurisdiction's inspection process applies. - **Plumbing:** Missouri follows the International Plumbing Code. Drain, waste, and vent work on a kitchen remodel requires a licensed plumber in Missouri if the scope involves moving or adding DWV lines. - **Ventilation:** Range hood venting to exterior is required under IRC M1503 for most kitchen remodels that disturb the existing ventilation path. Duct routing in older St. Louis homes often requires a separate line item. Building your estimate around these code requirements — rather than patching them in as change orders — is how you protect your margin on every job. --- ## Start Estimating Estimate.Pro is free to start. Walk your next St. Louis kitchen job, let the platform scope it, and send the bid before you leave the driveway. If the 8-minute target does not hold up on your first estimate, you have lost nothing.