Remodeling Estimate Software: How Bolster can simplify your processes

TLDR

Producing remodeling estimates manually wastes time and limits growth. Bolster simplifies the entire estimating process by creating fast, accurate, and interactive quotes that help contractors win more jobs while protecting work-life balance.

Why estimating efficiency matters for remodelers

As builders, staying in business means winning new projects. To keep your crews busy and revenue flowing, you need to consistently produce construction quotes.

The average closing rate for home services construction quotes, excluding referrals or repeat work, typically sits between 20 percent and 30 percent. That means for every project you win, you likely lose two or three. When estimating takes too long, those lost opportunities quickly turn into wasted hours.

Outdated estimating methods make it hard to keep up. Long nights, weekends spent quoting, and endless spreadsheet revisions can drain your energy and stall business growth. Instead of moving the business forward, you end up stuck maintaining it.

Bolster changes that. With lightning-fast estimates and interactive proposals, you can quote in minutes and present offers that stand out from the competition.

Why make the switch to Bolster

Inefficient quoting processes create real business problems, even if they feel normal when you are buried in estimates.

Some of the most common challenges include:

• No work-life balance due to endless hours spent building quotes
• Lower win rates caused by slow response times
• Limited room for growth because there is no time left for strategy or business development

Bolster helps eliminate these bottlenecks by streamlining the entire estimating workflow.

With Bolster, you nail every estimate in minutes

Built by contractors for contractors, Bolster is designed to support the way real remodeling businesses operate. The platform produces accurate estimates faster than traditional estimating tools while delivering a polished and professional experience for your clients.

Here are some of the standout benefits.

It’s easy

Construction estimates do not have to be complicated. Bolster is built around your best practices, labor rates, and material pricing.

Customer success managers work with you to create customized estimating workflows for your most common remodeling jobs. Once set up, anyone on your team can enter measurements and generate a detailed estimate in minutes.

This makes onboarding new team members faster and ensures consistency across all quotes.

It’s fast

Traditional estimating often lives in spreadsheets, notebooks, or handwritten takeoffs. Even when done well, this process takes hours and requires office time to finalize.

Bolster replaces outdated tools with a clean, intuitive interface. By storing vendor pricing, subcontractor costs, and overhead data, the platform automatically generates accurate estimates in minutes.

Line items are linked directly to measurements in your templates, so updating dimensions instantly updates pricing. Enter the measurements once, and Bolster handles the rest.

It’s accurate

Bolster’s AutoCost feature provides live market pricing for over 25,000 construction items based on your location.

By combining your internal pricing with AutoCost data, Bolster reduces the risk of underpriced or outdated estimates. The platform also flags unusual measurements or pricing entries to catch errors before a quote is finalized.

This added layer of protection helps prevent costly mistakes, even when estimates are created quickly.

Estimates have never looked better

Most quotes evolve after the first version. Homeowners want to explore options, swap materials, and visualize different outcomes.

Bolster makes this easy. Instead of sending static PDFs, you deliver an interactive estimate where clients can upgrade materials, explore alternatives, and see price changes instantly.

This improves transparency, reduces budget surprises, and gives clients confidence in their decisions, all without creating extra work for your team.

Project scheduling is simple

Bolster includes one-click automated project scheduling that generates a complete timeline in seconds.

Schedules can be adjusted easily, and any changes automatically notify your team and subcontractors. This keeps everyone aligned and eliminates the need for constant follow-ups or manual communication.

Ready to shift gears

Manual estimating methods cost contractors time, energy, and growth opportunities. Bolster replaces those outdated workflows with a faster, smarter approach to estimating and project planning.

With accurate estimates, interactive proposals, and automated scheduling, Bolster helps you move faster, win more jobs, and regain control of your time.

If you are ready to transform how you estimate and manage remodeling projects, book a demo and see how Bolster can simplify your processes.