The video explains why homeowners need a detailed budget for bathroom remodels and demonstrates how HomeZada’s AI budgeting tool streamlines the process. The presenter walks through creating a new bathroom remodel project in HomeZada, entering dimensions (e.g., 7 × 14 ft), selecting a product quality band (moderate or high‑end), and invoking the AI. The AI automatically generates an itemized material list, calculates quantities, assigns unit rates, and produces a line‑by‑line cost estimate (about $10,300 for moderate, over $17,000 for high‑end). The presenter shows how users can edit, add, or delete items through a conversational AI interface, re‑budget for different scenarios, and then save the estimates with built‑in assumptions. The video concludes by encouraging viewers to visit homesada.com to try the tool for managing bathroom remodel projects.
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Bathroom remodel projects are one of the most common home remodel projects, but most homeowners have no idea how much it's going to cost them, nor do they know how to budget for it. Let's look at how advanced AI makes this very easy for homeowners. First, let's quick reminder over why you need a budget. One, you really need one to determine what— how much investment you want to make into your house. Two, how are you going to pay for the project, whether it's coming up with cash or credit or getting a home equity loan. Maybe the most important part is you really want to have the detailed scope so that you can evaluate bids and make sure you're on the same page with your contractor as it relates to scope that you want. And all of these things means you're much more likely to not overspend and go over budget. Now AI is going to take your list of items, the dimensions of the product— project, the types of products that you want, and a decision of whether you're going to DIY or hire a contractor to do determine a very great detailed budget for you. So now let's go look at how HomeZada does this. It's a digital home management platform that does lots of different things for your home. We're going to focus in on the projects piece. Click on New Project, and here comes up a page with 50 common home improvement project templates. So you can do this for any project, but we're here focused on the bathroom, so we're going to hit Create Project. And now on the left-hand side, you can see you can put give yourself a high estimate. It's almost like creating an estimate, but you're sort of picking what band level of types of products that you want. Here you can even enter in the dimensions of your bathroom, and let's say you think it's a 7 by 14 bathroom, and now you can hit Create Project, and the first magic happens here, which is you can see that this itemized list has automatically identified all the typical items that you're going to need for your bathroom remodel project. Now you can notice that the budget is currently zero, but if I go to the upper right-hand corner and click the AI tool, now I'm going to engage AI, and the AI tool is basically taking that entire material list. It knows that my estimate of the dimensions are 7 by 14, and it's calculating the quantity over every single piece of material. It knows that I picked moderate-level pricing, and it's creating a unit rate for every single one of those items, and it's coming out with a very detailed material list And a line item by line item budget for every item on your kitchen— or sorry, on your bathroom remodel. Now, just think about how long it would take you to do this if you were to A, walk into a home improvement store, or even B, using, you know, a search engine to basically search for all these different products and basically try to build your own spreadsheet. HomeZada has done all this for you in literally probably about less than a minute. And you have now have a detailed budget for your entire kitchen or bathroom remodel, line item by line item, calculated quantities, unit price, and basically it says about $10,300. But the AI tool allows you to have a conversation. Re-budget based on high-end products, right? You want to see what it would cost you if you decided to go with higher end. Product selections. The Zada AI tool is going to again take every single one of those items that's in that material list that you can obviously edit. You could have deleted items before, you can add items, you can even ask the AI tool to add and delete items as well, because you can basically have this ongoing discussion because the AI tool realizes what it's conversed with you before. And now again, it's creating a complete budget for you for all the materials on your bathroom remodel. So let it, Let's give it a second here for it to finish out. So now you can see the Zada AI tool has budgeted your bathroom remodel at over $17,000 just by making that change of basically selecting high-end products. So you can see the unit rates for a lot of the fixtures and the building materials is significantly higher than we had when we had our moderate price project. And now let's say you want to go with this. You can go over here to the lower right Click that Save button, and it's going to take all those quantities, all the unit rates, all those individual costs, and even come up with assumptions for you. And now if you scroll down to the bottom and hit the Save button, you've now basically saved your estimates that were in that previous spreadsheet. And you did all this in literally a few minutes, and you've got multiple budgets for different scenarios. And now you've got a great starting point for you to actually manage your bathroom remodel moving forward. So in conclusion, if you want to learn more about how to use AI to manage your remodel projects, specifically, specifically your bathroom remodels, just go to homesada.com where you can learn more and you can even sign up for our application and try it to manage your bathroom remodel project. Thank you.
