The Only Licensed General Contractor in America Who Will Price Your Remodel From a Video

Key takeaways
– Contractor pricing is a black box: three contractors give you three numbers, and you have no way to know which one is honest.
– Online estimator sites price from national database averages. An average of everywhere is accurate nowhere.
– The Scan Estimate is different: record your room, say what you want done, text it in — and a licensed general contractor prices the job from a real price book, line by line. It’s free right now.

The Problem Nobody Talks About

Get three quotes on the same bathroom and you’ll get three numbers that aren’t even close to each other. One contractor is at $9,000. One is at $16,000. One won’t give you a number at all until he’s standing in your kitchen with a contract.

None of them will show you the math. That’s not an accident. Contractor pricing has always been a black box, because the box protects the guy holding it. If you don’t know what the job should cost, you can’t tell a fair price from a padded one — and everybody in this business knows it.

So homeowners do the only thing they can: they Google it. And that’s where the second problem starts.

Why the Online Estimators Get It Wrong

The big cost-estimator websites don’t price your job. They price an average of thousands of jobs, reported from all over the country, at every quality level, and they serve you the middle of it.

A bathroom in Ohio is not a bathroom in Boca Raton. Labor costs different. Florida code is different. Materials, permits, inspections, hurricane requirements — all different. An estimator that treats them the same isn’t giving you a price. It’s giving you a trivia answer.

Worse, those databases don’t know what anything costs this year, on your street. They know what people reported, blended and smoothed until the number means almost nothing. Contractors use those sites too — and laugh at them.

We built the alternative. You can see exactly how it works on our Scan Estimate page.

How the Scan Estimate Works

You take out your phone and walk the room. Thirty seconds of video beats thirty photos. While you record, you say what you want: “New shower, keep the layout, tile floor, double vanity.” Then you text the video to (561) 462-9293.

We watch it. We listen to it. And we price it — the way a contractor actually prices a job, from the inside out:

• Materials, itemized: the tile, the vanity, the fixtures, the glass.
• Labor, itemized: demo, plumbing, waterproofing, setting, finishing.
• Demolition and waste, itemized: the part most quotes quietly bury.

You get it back as a written, line-by-line estimate of what the job should cost. Not a range so wide it’s useless. Not a teaser number designed to get a salesman through your door. A number with the math showing.

Twenty-Five Years Behind Every Number

Here’s what makes this different from every estimator on the internet: the prices don’t come from a database. They come from our own price book — what materials actually cost us, what licensed labor actually runs in South Florida, calibrated against real jobs rolling through our shop every week.

Onel Construction LLC is a licensed general contractor, CGC1511492. The experience behind this tool is twenty-five years of licensed Florida contracting — thousands of kitchens, bathrooms, roofs, and window packages priced, built, and stood behind. When the tool quotes your job, it quotes the way that experience quotes it. Nobody else in America is offering you that, because nobody else has put a working contractor’s price book in the public’s hands.

Why It’s Free

Fair question. If this is worth something, why give it away?

Because the estimate is the introduction, and we’d rather introduce ourselves with the truth than with an ad. If you’re in Palm Beach or Broward County, the scan is step one: a measure tech comes to your home free, confirms the scan in person, and you get a final written price that’s good for fourteen days. The number we write is the number you pay.

If you’re anywhere else in the country, the estimate is simply yours. Take it into your negotiation. If a local contractor’s quote lands near it, you’ve probably found an honest one. If his number is way above it, make him show you why — line by line, the same way we showed you ours.

Either way, you stop negotiating blind. That was always the point.

This Is What It Should Cost

Not the cheapest number. Not the padded number. The should-cost price — materials, labor, and waste, itemized by people who do this work for a living and sign their name to it.

Record the room. Say what you want. Text it to (561) 462-9293 and get your number. When you’re ready to talk about the work itself, start at onelconstruction.com — and if it’s a kitchen you’re planning, our kitchen remodeling team is the next conversation.

Financing is available on everything we do. Payments start at $120 a month on smaller jobs, and most projects land in the low $200s to $300s a month with approved credit. Rates run as low as 4.49% APR for qualified buyers. Ask at the free measure and we’ll lay the options out in writing, next to the estimate.

Insurance savings vary by carrier, policy, and home — figures shown are ‘up to’ amounts, not guarantees. Grant eligibility, amounts, and funding availability are determined by the program and may change. Financing subject to lender approval; rates and payments vary by credit profile. All financing examples assume approved credit through our financing partner.