Washington, DC
LANDSCAPING / LAWN CARE ESTIMATING.

## Landscaping Estimates in Washington, DC Move Fast — Your Bids Should Too DC's landscaping market is one of the most competitive on the East Coast. You're bidding against regional outfits, local owner-operators, and national property management contractors all chasing the same commercial corridors — Georgetown, Capitol Hill, Navy Yard, and the Northern Virginia spillover. A slow turnaround on a bid is a lost bid. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job walkthrough to a sendable bid in 8 minutes. That's not a marketing target — it's the median time contractors clock in the field. --- ### What Makes DC Landscaping Estimating Different **Permit overhead is real here.** DDOT right-of-way permits are required for any work touching public space, including tree boxes and sidewalk plantings. The DC Urban Forestry Division requires permits for removal or significant pruning of trees on public space, and violations carry steep fines. Your bid needs to account for permit costs before you send it — not after you've already committed to a number. **Stormwater requirements add scope to almost every project.** DC's MS4 permit requirements under the DC Stormwater Retention Credit program mean that commercial clients increasingly want bioretention, permeable pavement, or green roof elements incorporated into landscape work. Estimating a permeable paver patio? Estimate.Pro's hardscape calculator references ICPI installation specs so your unit counts, base depth, and edge restraint materials are built into the scope automatically. **The clay soil problem.** DC sits on heavy clay with a high water table in many neighborhoods. Proper drainage work — French drains, grading corrections, soil amendment — adds labor hours that out-of-region contractors routinely underbid. When you log your material workspace in Estimate.Pro, you can save your local amendment and drainage material costs so every new estimate pulls from numbers you've actually paid at the supplier. **Commercial vs. residential split.** The District has a dense commercial and federal property base. GSA-managed grounds, embassy contracts, and BID (Business Improvement District) maintenance agreements often require certified payroll or prevailing wage documentation. Log your labor tiers accurately from the start so your estimates reflect what you'll actually invoice. --- ### How Estimate.Pro Works for DC Landscapers **AR-assisted measurement.** Walk the property with your phone. On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement captures turf area, bed perimeters, and hardscape zones in real time. Camera and photo measurements are flagged as estimates, so you always know which numbers need field verification before you finalize. **Scope-of-work generation.** After your walkthrough, the AI produces a written scope — line items for turf maintenance, mulch beds, irrigation, hardscape, drainage, and planting — that you review and adjust. No starting from a blank template at 9 PM. **Saved material cost workspace.** DC-area suppliers — your SiteOne in Beltsville, your local stone yard — set their own pricing. Save your actual material costs in Estimate.Pro once, and every new bid pulls from those numbers instead of national averages that don't match your invoices. **Stripe Connect invoicing.** Pro+ users pay 0% platform fee on payments collected through Stripe Connect. Free tier is 3%. Either way, you can collect deposits, progress payments, and final invoices without a separate invoicing tool. --- ### Pricing Built for Sole Operators and Crews - **Free tier** — no credit card, no time limit. Start bidding today. - **Pro** — $39/seat/month. Full estimating with saved material workspace. - **Elite** — $79/seat/month. Adds Stripe Connect, invoice exports, and advanced workflows. - **Crew** — $399/month flat for unlimited seats. Right for multi-crew operations managing multiple DC-area contracts simultaneously. --- ### Get Your First Bid Out Today Create a free account, walk your next DC property, and send a bid before you drive back to the shop. No credit card. No setup fee. No platform fee on the free tier until you're ready to collect payments. Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades — so if your crew also handles irrigation repair, hardscape, or drainage installs, those estimates live in the same place.