Orlando, FL
OTHER (DECKS, FLATWORK) ESTIMATING.

## Deck and Flatwork Estimating in Orlando Moves Fast — Your Bid Process Should Too Orlando's construction market doesn't slow down. The metro adds housing faster than most of the country, and homeowners here expect composite decks, screen enclosures, and concrete flatwork to be priced and permitted quickly. If you're still building estimates in a spreadsheet, you're losing jobs to contractors who send a professional bid before you've finished measuring. Estimate.Pro gets you from a job-site walkthrough to a sendable, itemized bid in a median of 8 minutes. --- ### What Makes Deck and Flatwork Estimating Different in Orlando **Soil and drainage.** Central Florida's sandy, high-water-table soils affect every flatwork pour. Concrete driveways and pool decks in Orange County often require compacted base material and fiber reinforcement specifications that have to be called out explicitly in your scope of work — or you eat the change order. Estimate.Pro's AI scope generator flags material upgrades based on the conditions you describe during your walkthrough notes. **Florida Building Code 2023 — decks attached to the structure.** Florida Building Code 2023 (FBC) Section R507 governs deck construction, including ledger attachment, joist sizing, and post-to-beam connections. Attached decks require a building permit in Orange County. Detached decks over 200 sq ft also trigger permit requirements. Your bid has to account for permit fees and inspection holdpoints. Estimate.Pro lets you embed permit cost line items and scope language referencing FBC R507 so the client sees exactly what the code requires. **Composite vs. pressure-treated lumber cost swings.** Material pricing in Central Florida shifts with lumber futures and the supply chain disruptions that hit this region hard during high-demand quarters. Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace lets you lock in your current supplier pricing for Trex, TimberTech, or ACQ-treated lumber and update it once when costs change — not on every single bid. **Pool deck and paver flatwork volume.** Orlando has one of the highest concentrations of residential pools in the country. Travertine, brick paver, and brushed concrete pool decks are high-ticket flatwork jobs. ICPI installation standards apply to interlocking concrete paver systems. When your scope-of-work references ICPI spec, it tells the homeowner you're not guessing at base depth and edge restraint. --- ### How Estimate.Pro Works for Orlando Deck Contractors **Walkthrough capture.** Walk the job with your phone. Use AR measurement on supported devices — powered by ONNX-assisted live AR — to capture deck footprint, step runs, and slab dimensions directly in the app. Camera and photo measurements are clearly marked as estimates so you never misrepresent accuracy on a complex grade. **AI scope of work.** After the walkthrough, the AI drafts a trade-specific scope: ledger attachment method, joist span, decking direction, concrete thickness, base prep, and edge treatment. You review and edit. The language is plain enough for a homeowner to understand and specific enough to hold up in a dispute. **Priced estimate in 8 minutes.** Labor, material, permit allowance, and margin — all in one document. Send it as a professional PDF from the field before you leave the driveway. **No platform fee on Pro+.** Estimate.Pro charges 0% platform fee on Pro and Elite plans when you collect payment through Stripe Connect. On the Free tier the fee is 3%. The Free tier requires no credit card to start. --- ### Plans Built for Small Crews - **Free:** Core estimating, unlimited jobs, no credit card required. - **Pro — $39/seat/mo:** Full AI scope generation, saved material cost workspace. - **Elite — $79/seat/mo:** Stripe Connect invoicing, invoice exports, advanced workflows. - **Crew — $399/mo flat:** Covers your whole crew, fixed cost, no per-seat math. A two-person deck crew running 15 jobs a month on the Crew plan pays roughly $27 per job for the platform. One recovered change order covers it. --- ### Orlando Deck and Flatwork Contractors Use Estimate.Pro Because - The scope-of-work output references the codes inspectors in Orange County actually check. - Material costs stay current in your workspace instead of getting stale in a spreadsheet tab. - Clients receive a professional document that competes with larger GCs, not a handwritten number on a business card. - The 8-minute bid target is a median across real jobs — not a marketing number pulled from ideal conditions. Start free. No credit card. Your first bid goes out today.