{"id":2645,"date":"2026-10-17T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instabid.pro\/for-remodelers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:19:20","slug":"for-remodelers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/instabid.pro\/es\/for-remodelers\/","title":{"rendered":"InstaBid for Remodelers and General Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ibrich\">\n<section class=\"band\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<p class=\"lead\">InstaBid prices a kitchen, bath or addition as <strong>one multi-trade estimate<\/strong> from your own costs. Your markup goes on top, and we take none of it. It asks the questions a general contractor asks on the walk (is that wall load-bearing, is the layout moving, is the family living there), then hands you an itemized bid under your name. <strong>Whole-remodel estimates are in the Shop tier, $499 a month, every trade.<\/strong> Ten days free, no card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ctarow\"><a class=\"ibbtn\" href=\"https:\/\/instabid.pro\/es\/see-it-work\/\">See it work, no signup \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band alt\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>The questions that change the number<\/h2>\n<p>Any app can multiply square feet. The money in a remodel is in the answers to a handful of questions, and you know which ones because you&#8217;ve eaten them. These are the actual questions on InstaBid&#8217;s remodel form. Each one moves the estimate.<\/p>\n<h3>Kitchen<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quality level:<\/strong> builder grade, semi-custom, custom or luxury. Pick it once and everything downstream follows. Any single item can still be overridden, so luxury counters in a builder-grade kitchen is fine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layout:<\/strong> keep it, minor (move one or two walls or fixtures), or major.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Structural:<\/strong> none, non-load-bearing wall removal, or a load-bearing beam install.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Is the home occupied during the work?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cabinets by the foot:<\/strong> grade, base cabinet linear feet, wall cabinet linear feet, and pantry count. Then hardware tier and soft-close hinges and slides.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Island:<\/strong> yes or no, and how many feet. The island adds its own cabinets, its countertop and its own electrical. The electrical is the part people forget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Bath<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What kind of bath:<\/strong> powder room, hall, guest suite or primary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layout:<\/strong> keep it, the vanity moves, or a full reconfiguration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plomer\u00eda:<\/strong> fixtures stay on the existing lines, or supply and drain get moved.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Occupied during the work?<\/strong> Asked here too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Ampliaci\u00f3n<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What the room is:<\/strong> bedroom, office, family room, bath, primary suite, laundry or mudroom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Footprint and stories:<\/strong> one story or two.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Foundation:<\/strong> slab on grade, crawlspace, pier and beam, or a basement tie-in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sewer or septic:<\/strong> with a &#8220;not sure&#8221; answer, because sometimes the homeowner doesn&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roof:<\/strong> the material it has to match, and how it ties in (shed, gable or hip).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About luxury:<\/strong> when you pick luxury, those selections are priced as an <strong>allowance<\/strong>, not a specific product. That&#8217;s how you&#8217;d write it by hand, because nobody has picked the faucet yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>Your cost, not a local average<\/h2>\n<p>Most estimating software prices your job from somebody&#8217;s regional average. InstaBid starts from cost and lets your numbers win.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Your real cost, your markup.<\/strong> InstaBid outputs cost. What you charge on top is yours. There&#8217;s no platform markup and no percentage taken off the job.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ajustado por regi\u00f3n.<\/strong> State multipliers apply, so the same material doesn&#8217;t price the same in Oregon and Florida. Material prices run at your ZIP and re-price daily.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Your prices don&#8217;t drift.<\/strong> A price you&#8217;ve set is locked. That&#8217;s enforced in code, not policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band alt\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>Running subs and the job after the bid<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sub bids side by side, your markup hidden.<\/strong> Compare the electrician&#8217;s number against the other electrician&#8217;s, and the homeowner never sees what you&#8217;re adding. <em>(Crew tier and up.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Change orders, priced and signed.<\/strong> Open a wall and find something, and the change order is priced at your numbers. The homeowner approves or declines it with a signature, and an approved one rolls into the job total. The original bid stays frozen, so you can always show what changed. <em>(Every tier.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>A material list your supply house can work from.<\/strong> Every estimate comes out with the full material list, trade-grouped with quantities figured, ready to hand your supply house. On Shop, it prices at <strong>your own supplier account pricing<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reusable bid templates.<\/strong> Save a job as a skeleton and reuse the scope. The prices update to current cost. <em>(Crew tier and up.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>Which tier a remodeler actually needs<\/h2>\n<p>Straight answer, so you don&#8217;t find out after you sign up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Solo, $99 a month: one trade.<\/strong> Good if you do one thing, like drywall or flooring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crew, $249 a month: any three trades.<\/strong> Adds sub bids side by side, the client portal, bid templates and 3 seats.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shop, $499 a month: every trade, plus whole-remodel estimates for kitchen, bath and addition.<\/strong> Also includes InstaBid 411, InstaBid Live, your supplier account pricing, hands-on catalog onboarding and 5 seats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you sell whole kitchens, baths or additions as one job, you need Shop.<\/strong> Crew will price three trades of that kitchen. It won&#8217;t build the whole-remodel estimate. Every tier starts with ten days free, no card. We take zero percent of your job on any tier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band alt\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>From John<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"said\">\n<p>I was a general contractor for thirty years. I&#8217;ve bought the material, hung the drywall, eaten the change orders and run crews. I could walk a job and know the number in two minutes. What I couldn&#8217;t do was face the eight-hour write-up afterward.<\/p>\n<p>The number was never the hard part. The write-up was. I&#8217;d dodge it for days, and I lost more jobs to that than I ever lost to being outbid.<\/p>\n<p>InstaBid exists because I needed it and nobody would build it. I&#8217;m not a software guy who researched contractors. I&#8217;m the customer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>John also co-hosts <em>Around the House<\/em>, a home-improvement show on 200+ stations with 1M+ weekly reach. It&#8217;s thirty years of straight talk about building, pricing and running the business, and InstaBid talks the same way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>InstaBid Live, for remodelers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>InstaBid Live<\/strong> is in the Shop tier. It&#8217;s a video walk. Walk the kitchen on a video call from your phone. It looks at the room and asks what a GC would ask: are the outlets next to the sink, do the cabinets run to the ceiling. It counts the fixtures, prices the job, and shows a before-and-after render. Shop includes 40 Live walks and 60 renders a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"band alt\">\n<div class=\"in\">\n<h2>See it work before you sign up for anything<\/h2>\n<p>Click a job and get the number the way your customer would. No signup, no salesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ctarow\"><a class=\"ibbtn\" href=\"https:\/\/instabid.pro\/es\/see-it-work\/\">See it work \u2192<\/a> \u00b7 or <a href=\"https:\/\/instabid.pro\/es\/pricing\/\">compare the tiers \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InstaBid prices a kitchen, bath or addition as one multi-trade estimate from your own costs. 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