Overview
Plumbing is the trade where the emergency call pays for the week and the quoted job eats it back. You price a water heater swap off what you charged in March, forget that copper moved, and find out at the supply house.
Most flat rate books hand you somebody else's rate baked into every line. This one does not have a rate of its own. It uses yours, and when yours moves, all 320 prices move with it.
Fill in the calculator with your real overhead, your vehicles, your wages and your billable hours. It works out what an hour on the job actually costs you. From that one number all 320 plumbing prices build themselves. Put your insurance up in January and every price in the book moves with it.
How it runs
Three steps, and you only do the first one once.
- Fill in the calculator. Overhead, vehicles, wages, billable hours. About twenty minutes, and you are done with it.
- Pick a service. Job Entry lists all 320. Choose one and the three prices fill themselves in.
- Hand over the proposal. Good, Better and Best on one page with a line to sign.
What's inside
One Excel workbook, eight tabs:
- Start Here, a menu that jumps you to any tab
- Job Entry, pick a service and the prices fill themselves in
- Presentation, the three-option proposal your customer reads and signs
- Job Log, one line per quote so you can see what you sent and what closed
- Flat Rate Book, 320 services across 23 categories, three tiers each
- Cost Breakdown, your hours, material and profit on every line
- Software Export, all 320 services formatted for Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and Jobber
- Calculator, your break-even rate and the premium you bill over it
Sample line items
These are the prices the file ships calibrated at. Yours will differ the moment you put your own numbers in, which is the whole point of it.
- Water heater replacement, 50 gallon gas: $2,390
- Main shutoff valve replacement: $680
- Toilet replacement, standard: $640
- Kitchen faucet replacement, customer supplied: $290
Also included
Three more files in the same download, all sold separately in the shop:
- Contractor Customer Manager, leads, quotes, follow-ups and reviews across a thousand customer rows. $49.99 on its own.
- Job Profitability Tracker, what each job actually made against what you charged. $49.99 on its own.
- IPC Plumbing Code Quick Reference, IPC code reference, sixteen tabs covering venting, fixture units, pipe sizing and the rest. $19.99 on its own.
Bought separately those three plus the price book come to $288.95.
How this differs from the price book
The Plumbing Flat Rate Price Book at $99 is the book on its own. It ships with a calibrated rate in it and a settings sheet you can change.
The System is the book with the rate removed and a full break-even calculator wired in behind it, plus the proposal, the job log and the export. The book has a rate. The System has yours. If you already own the book and you know your numbers, the book is fine. If you have never worked out what an hour costs you, start here.
Who it's for
Residential and light commercial plumbers running service, repair and replacement work. Drain work, water heaters, fixtures, repipes.
Who it isn't for
New construction rough-in bid off a print is a different estimate and this book is not built for it. Large commercial work the same.
Why buy this one
- One rate, one place. No book with its own numbers sitting next to a calculator that does not talk to it.
- One purchase. No per-technician licensing, no renewal, no losing access if you stop paying.
- Nothing between you and the formula. It is a spreadsheet. Every price shows its work and you can change any part of it.
- Quote from anywhere. Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, LibreOffice. Works on a tablet in a basement with no signal.
- Direct support. Message through Etsy and the person who built it answers.