FREE PLUMBING PRICE LIST TEMPLATE
Free plumbing price list template — and how to set every price on it
A plumbing price list in Word and PDF, filled in for a plumbing business: the service call, flat-rate jobs, hourly repairs, parts and permits, every line explained — and when to put the prices on your website.
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The short answer
A plumbing price list is the menu of what you charge: the service call, one line per flat-rate job, an hourly line for repairs, and the rule for parts, permits and after-hours calls. It needs your business details and license number, the date the prices took effect, your service area, how to book, the list itself — service, what's included, unit, price — and the fine print: the deposit on big jobs, the emergency rate, and tax.
Price the job, not the hour, wherever you can see the job in advance: “water heater replacement, 40–50 gallon tank — $450 labor” is a line a homeowner can budget from before they call. Keep the hourly line for leaks and repairs you can't size until the wall is open, and put a minimum on it.
The list is a guide; the quote is the price. Say so on the list — “every job is quoted in writing before we start” — and price the quote from the list, so two customers with the same water heater get the same number.
FREE TEMPLATE · WORD AND PDF
The plumbing price list template, filled in
Below is the template filled in for Blue Valve Plumbing, a fictional plumbing business — the same one whose work order our plumbing work order template draws, so you can see its lines priced straight off this list. The download is the same sheet with [bracketed] lines to replace — free, no email address, no sign-up.
Example · fictional business
Blue Valve Plumbing Kansas City, MO (816) 555-0142 · hello@bluevalve.example License # 000000 (example) | PRICE LIST |
Prices valid From September 1, 2026 Every job is quoted in writing before we start Minimum charge $89 per visit (the service call) | To book Call or text (816) 555-0142 hello@bluevalve.example Same day for leaks and no hot water — we call back within the hour |
| Service | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Service call / diagnostic We come out, find the fault and quote the fix. Taken off the job if you go ahead the same visit. | per visit | $89 |
| Water heater replacement — tank, 40–50 gallon Labor: drain, disconnect, install, test. Heater and fittings at cost plus markup, on the quote. | per job | $450 |
| Tankless water heater install — labor Mount, vent, connect water and gas, set up and test. Gas line upsizing and venting quoted on site. | per job | from $1,250 |
| Drain clearing Sink, tub or floor drain, cable machine. Main sewer line and camera inspection quoted on site. | per drain | $150–$250 |
| Faucet, toilet or garbage disposal install Customer-supplied or ours — the fixture is on its own line either way. | per fixture | $150–$275 |
| Leak and pipe repair Billed by the hour from arrival, one-hour minimum, confirmed before we start. | per hour | $120 |
| After-hours / emergency call-out Evenings, weekends and holidays — replaces the service call. Work at the usual rates. | per visit | $189 |
| City plumbing permit Water heaters, repipes and sewer work. We pull it; you pay what the city charges. | per job | at cost |
| Haul away the old fixture or heater Loaded, gone and recycled the same day. | per item | $45 |
| Parts and materials Heaters, valves, fittings, pipe — itemized on your quote and invoice. | per job | cost + 25% |
Deposit
On a repipe or a sewer line, a deposit books the date and covers the parts ordered ahead; most jobs are paid when the water's back on. Pay by card, check or bank transfer.
Sales tax
Sales tax, 7% on parts (example). Labor is not taxed.
Every figure on the example is an example, not a price guide — use your own rates; our guide to how much a plumber should charge has the 2026 US ranges. The Word file is a standard .docx you can edit in Word, Google Docs or any app that opens Word documents; the PDF prints as-is.
Your prices and your website, one place
Start your plumbing website — your price book lives beside it
Add your business name and your town, and Zarla builds your plumbing website from this one line. The same dashboard keeps a private price book — every service with its price and unit — and builds your quotes and invoices from it.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.
LINE BY LINE
What goes on a plumbing price list
Every line on the template, in order, and what to write on it.
| The line | What to put there |
|---|---|
| Your business details and license | Business name, phone, email, website — and your state or city plumbing license number, which most states require on your paperwork. The list gets forwarded and pinned to fridges; it has to say who you are. |
| The date, and the service area | When these prices took effect and how far you travel. The date is what lets you raise prices without an argument. |
| Prices valid, and the rule | How long the prices hold, the minimum charge, and the line that every job is quoted in writing before you start. |
| How to book | Phone, email, website — and how fast you answer a leak. For a plumber, response time is a selling line. |
| The service call | Your first line. What the visit includes, and whether it comes off the job if the customer goes ahead — the two things every caller asks. |
| Flat-rate jobs | One line per job you do every week — water heater, toilet, faucet, disposal, drain — with the labor price and what it includes. Parts go on their own line, so the flat rate stays flat. |
| Hourly repairs, with a minimum | For leaks and repairs you can't size until the wall is open. Say when it applies and the minimum; it's the line that keeps the flat rates honest. |
| Parts, permits and haul-away | Parts at cost plus your markup, permits at cost, haul-away as a fixed fee. Each on its own line so the quote can itemize them. |
| Deposit and after hours | What books a big job and when the balance is due; what an evening or weekend call-out costs and what it replaces. |
| Tax | Whether your prices include tax or add it, and on what. In the US, whether sales tax applies to your work — and whether it falls on the materials, the labor, both or neither — depends on your state, so keep materials and labor on separate lines and check your state's revenue department or your accountant. Outside the US: a GST-registered business in Australia or New Zealand and a VAT-registered business in the UK or EU show consumers prices that include the GST or VAT, and show the tax on the invoice the same way. Confirm the details with your accountant. |
STEP BY STEP
How to make a plumbing price list
An evening with the last twenty invoices and your supplier's price book.
List every job you've billed this year
Water heaters, toilets, faucets, drains, disposals, leaks — from the invoices, not from memory. Group the ones you do most; they're the flat-rate lines.
Work out your hourly cost
A year of costs — your wage, the van, insurance, tools, software, the license — divided by the hours you can bill (about 1,000 to 1,200 a year for a solo plumber). That's break-even; add your margin.
Turn the common jobs into flat rates
Time your last five water heaters. Hours × your rate, rounded to a number you'd say on the phone. Parts stay off the flat rate and on their own line.
Set the service call and the hourly line
The service call covers the drive and the diagnosis; the hourly line, with a minimum, covers what can't be sized in advance. Check both against the going rates in the pricing guide.
Add parts, permits, haul-away and after hours
Parts at cost plus a markup, permits at cost, haul-away as a fee, an emergency call-out that replaces the service call. Write what's included under every line.
Date it and save it where your quotes are
Put the date on it, review it every January and after a supplier increase, and keep the working copy in your quoting tool so every quote reads from the same numbers.
How to set the prices on a plumbing price list
Start from your costs, not the competition. Add up a year of running the business — wages including your own, the van, fuel, insurance, tools, the license, software, advertising — and divide by the hours you'll actually bill. A solo plumber bills far fewer than forty hours a week once quoting, driving and parts runs come out. That number plus your margin is the rate every flat price is built from. For what's normal in your area, how much a plumber should charge has the 2026 US ranges and a calculator.
Flat rates for the jobs you can see; hourly for the ones you can't. A water heater, a toilet or a faucet is the same job in every house — time five of them, average it, and the flat rate rewards you for being fast. A leak behind a wall isn't, so it goes on the hourly line with a minimum and “confirmed before we start” next to it.
Keep parts off the flat rate. The same job can carry a basic heater or one costing nearly three times as much, depending on what the customer chooses. Price labor flat, list parts at cost plus a markup, and the quote itemizes them — the customer sees where the money went, and the flat rate never has to change when the supplier's price does.
Make the service call do its job. It pays for the drive and the diagnosis, and it filters the customers who just want a free opinion. Saying it comes off the job if they go ahead the same visit turns it from a fee into a reason to say yes.
Permits and licensing on the list. In the US, most states license plumbers and many require the license number on your quotes and invoices, and a water heater replacement, a repipe or sewer work needs a permit and an inspection in most cities. Putting “permit at cost” on the list says you pull them — which is the line a careful homeowner is looking for. Check your state licensing board and your city's permit office.
Raise prices on a date, not in an argument. Date the list, review it every January and after a supplier increase, and send regulars the new list before it starts. Customers accept a dated rise; they argue with a surprise one.
Know your tax rules. In the US, whether sales tax applies to your work — and whether it falls on the materials, the labor, both or neither — depends on your state, so keep materials and labor on separate lines and check your state's revenue department or your accountant. Outside the US: a GST-registered business in Australia or New Zealand and a VAT-registered business in the UK or EU show consumers prices that include the GST or VAT, and show the tax on the invoice the same way. Confirm the details with your accountant.
Keep your working plumbing price list in Zarla's price book
A printed plumbing price list is for the customer. The one that runs your business is the private version — the price you actually charge for each service, the unit, and the note to yourself about why — and it belongs where your quotes are written, not in the glovebox.
If your plumbing website is on Zarla, the quoting tool keeps a price book in the same dashboard: every service you sell with one price, a range or a “from” price, per job, hour, square foot or your own unit, and a private one-line note. Zarla shows what you last charged for each service, lists the services on your website that don't have a price yet, and lets you add a line to a quote or an invoice straight from the book — so a quote takes two taps per line and the arithmetic is done for you. The book never appears on your website: your site shows what you do, the book holds what you charge, and the quote is where a customer sees the two meet. In the US, several trades can start their book from a typical price range in one of our published pricing guides, which you accept, edit or dismiss; Zarla never sets a price on its own.
Want to see the website first? Browse plumbing website templates or see how Zarla builds plumbing websites. Still setting up? Read how to start a plumbing business and write your plumbing business plan; for the going rates, see how much a plumber should charge; to fill the calendar, SEO for plumbers.
The whole paper trail for a plumbing job: the plumbing work order template → the plumbing estimate template, then how to write a quote → the plumbing work order → the plumbing invoice template → how to write a receipt. For any other trade, the free price list template has the same sheet with a painting job as the example.
Plumbing price lists: common questions
Your business details and license number; the date the prices took effect and your service area; how to book and how fast you respond; the service call; one line per flat-rate job with what the labor includes; an hourly line for repairs, with a minimum; parts at cost plus markup, permits at cost and haul-away as a fee; the emergency call-out; and the fine print — deposit, travel and tax. Add the line that every job is quoted in writing before you start.
Flat rates for the jobs you can see in advance — water heaters, toilets, faucets, drains — because customers can budget for them and a fast plumber earns more, not less. Hourly, with a minimum, for leaks and repairs you can't size until the wall is open. Most plumbing price lists carry both, and the quote says which lines are which.
It varies by area; the example list charges $89 and takes it off the job if the customer goes ahead the same visit. Our pricing guide has the 2026 US ranges for the service call, the hourly rate and the common flat-rate jobs — set yours from your own costs and check it against those.
The price list is your standard prices for every service, published once and valid until you change it. The quote is the price for one customer's job — this heater, this venting, this permit — worked out from the list, and it's the quote that sets the price for that job. Say on the list that every job is quoted in writing.
As a rule, not as a number: “parts and materials at cost plus 25%”, itemized on the quote. Heaters, fixtures and valves change price with the supplier and the customer's choice, so a fixed parts price on the list goes stale in a month.
The flat ones, yes — the service call, the water heater labor, the drain clearing — and “from” prices for the rest. A page with real units and ranges gets fewer calls, from people who've already decided you're in their budget; a page with no prices loses the ones who would have paid you. Keep the full working list, with your margins, private.
In the US there is no general rule that a service business must publish a price list, though some trades have their own — auto repair shops in some states must post their labor rate, and in many must give a written estimate before work starts. In Australia, consumer law says any price you show consumers must be the total price including GST; in the UK and EU, a price shown to consumers should include VAT. Check your local rules.
Say which, on the list. Businesses selling to homeowners usually show the price the customer pays; businesses selling to other businesses often show prices before tax. In the US, whether sales tax applies to your work — and whether it falls on the materials, the labor, both or neither — depends on your state, so keep materials and labor on separate lines and check your state's revenue department or your accountant. Outside the US: a GST-registered business in Australia or New Zealand and a VAT-registered business in the UK or EU show consumers prices that include the GST or VAT, and show the tax on the invoice the same way. Confirm the details with your accountant.
Yes. The plumbing price list template downloads free as a Word document and a PDF — no email address, no sign-up. Edit the Word file in Word, Google Docs or any app that opens Word documents, or print the PDF and fill it in by hand. There's no Excel version; if you'd rather work in a spreadsheet, the same three columns — service, unit, price — are all it needs.
A private one. If your plumbing website is on Zarla, the quoting tool keeps a price book in the same dashboard: every service with one price, a range or a “from” price and its unit, plus a private note to yourself. You add lines to quotes and invoices straight from it, and it never appears on your website. For a printed list to hand customers, use the template above.
Quote plumbing jobs from your own price book
Add your business name and your town, and Zarla builds your plumbing website from that one line — with a private price book, quotes, invoices and receipts in the same dashboard.
Already have a website? Bring it across →Zarla keeps your old page addresses where it can and redirects the ones that change, helping you keep the Google standing you've built.