QuoteCops

How it works

From a few photos to a number you can use.

About ten minutes, most of it spent taking photographs.

01

We direct the photo shoot

Left alone, most people take three blurry close-ups of the crack and nothing else — which is not enough to price anything. So the app tells you what to shoot for your kind of job: the whole room from the doorway, the damage straight on from a few feet back, the close-up, the floor where it meets the wall, anything else that looks wrong.

Each shot is checked as you take it — too dark, too blurry, too close, take it again — and a visible checklist fills in so you know when you have enough.

This is the highest-leverage screen in the product. Every number downstream is derived from these photographs, so a bad set produces a confidently wrong estimate. Catching it here costs nothing.

02

You say what you want done

One or two sentences, in your own words. “Tile is cracked in the shower and the wall behind it feels soft. Want it fixed properly.” No dimensions, no material specifications — if you knew those, you would not need us.

Then your ZIP code. That is the only location we ask for, and the only one we keep. It is what sets local material prices, trade labor rates, tax treatment and permit rules.

03

We show you what we understood — before any price

We state the job back in plain language, list what we had to assume, and list what a photograph simply cannot determine. Only then do we show a number.

If we got it wrong, correct it and the estimate re-prices immediately. No re-shooting, no starting again.

Sometimes the useful thing is the disagreement. If you wrote “replace some cracked tile” and the photos show a failing shower pan, that gap is the most valuable thing we can tell you.

04

You get the itemized number

Materials line by line with quantities. Labor as hours per trade at rates for your metro area. Disposal and prep. Permits. Tax. And the contractor's overhead and profit shown as its own line — because you should know it is there and roughly what it is.

What you get

An estimate you can take into the room.

Underneath the number: what moves it. Finding rot, finding mold, discovering the tile is discontinued — each with its own likely cost. You walk in knowing not just the price but the shape of the risk.

Then the questions worth asking: will you open the wall before quoting a final price? Is waterproofing membrane included? What happens if you find rot — will you tell me before doing the work?

Shower tile surroundSAMPLE

Seattle, WA 98108 · 14 Sep 2026

$2,500–3,800

Typical

Job

Remove cracked tile and damaged backing from a 3×5 ft section of shower surround. Replace backer board, re-waterproof, re-tile, grout and seal.

  • The plumbing and the valve stay put.
  • Standard ceramic tile, not stone.
  • No permit — a like-for-like repair.
Fix it

What could change it

  • Rot in the framing1 in 4+$800–2,000
  • Mold needing work1 in 8+$500–1,500
  • Tile discontinued1 in 5+$1,200–3,000

Where the money goes

LaborTile setter · 14–20 hrs$1,550–2,650measured
Contractor overhead & profit~$380–580~ estimated
Materials5 items~$380~ estimated
  • Cement backer board, 3×5 ft2 sheets~$34
  • Waterproofing membrane1 roll~$68
  • Ceramic wall tile48 sq ft~$142
  • Thinset mortar + grout—~$86
  • Sealant, trim, fasteners—~$50
Disposal, protection, prepHaul-away and floor protection~$150~ estimated
Sales taxWA state rate, on materials$40measured
Total$2,500–3,800

Sources

LaborBLS wage data, Seattle metro
MaterialsPrice indices, Sep 2026
How we work this out

An estimate, not a quote.

Know before you ask.

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No phone number, because we never ask for one. No contractor has ever paid us anything.