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Plumbing, pipes that stay boring

It usually starts with a sound behind the wall you cannot place. The hard part is not the work — it is that every plumbing company sounds equally sure of itself, and you get one guess. We check licence and insurance before we introduce anyone, and we record the date we checked.

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Plumbing in short

Plumbing services cover everything that moves water into, around, and out of your home: fixture and faucet work, drain and sewer clearing, water heater installation, leak detection, repiping, and gas line work where the plumber is licensed for it. Most residential plumbers bill $80–$130 per hour in 2026, with a separate service call or diagnostic fee on top. Emergency and after-hours work is priced higher, averaging around $170 per hour.

Most residential plumbing work in 2026 falls into three price bands: small repairs at $80–$130 per hour plus a service fee, equipment replacements like a water heater at roughly $900–$5,500 installed, and infrastructure projects like a whole-home repipe at roughly $4,000–$15,000. Drain cleaning runs about $100–$275 for a simple fixture clog and $175–$600 to snake a main line.

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Why a pro gets to be on this list

Most sites sell your number to whoever pays the most for it. We check the plumbing companies we match you with, and we publish the date we checked so you can hold us to it.

Licence checked

We look up the licence with the issuing state or local authority and record the date we checked it.

Insurance confirmed

General liability and, where it applies, workers’ compensation — confirmed with the carrier, not taken on trust.

Reviews read, not counted

We read the recent negatives as well as the average, and we look at how the pro answered them.

Re-checked, not set and forgotten

A licence that lapses drops the pro out of matching. Every record carries the date it was last verified.

Read the full vetting method

No verified plumbing price ranges published yet.
We don’t publish a cost until we can show the data behind it. If you need a number today, the quote form gives you real prices from local companies.

Honest comparison

HomeMatchup vs. a lead site vs. doing it yourself

Three ways to get this work done. Here’s what each one actually gives you.

Getting plumbing work done — three routes compared
HomeMatchup Typical lead site DIY
How many companies call youA short, named shortlist you agreed toOften 4–5+ at once, sold to whoever buys the leadNone — the work is on you
Licence & insuranceChecked against the issuing authority, with a date on the recordUsually self-reported by the contractorYour own permits and liability
What it costs youFree — pros pay us, and only for a real matchFree, but your number is resoldMaterials plus your time
Price guidance before you talkPublished ranges with the data behind themRarely shown before you hand over detailsYou research it yourself
If it goes wrongYou have a named, verified company and a record of the checksHard to trace which site sold the leadNo recourse

Describes how HomeMatchup operates and the common lead-generation model. Not a claim about any named competitor.

Homeowners

What people say after they’ve hired

Zero reviews. On purpose.

We’d rather show you nothing than show you someone else’s reviews.

Plenty of sites fill this space with reviews scraped from elsewhere, or written for them. We don’t. The first plumbing review on this page will come from a homeowner we matched, after their work was finished and paid for.

  • Only from homeowners we actually matched
  • Only after the job is complete
  • Published unedited, including the bad ones
  1. 1You get matchedA few checked pros, free
  2. 2Work gets doneBy a licensed, insured company
  3. 3We ask youOnce, after completion
  4. 4It appears hereExactly as you wrote it
FAQ

Plumbing questions, answered

The questions homeowners ask us most about plumbing.

Residential rates generally run $80–$130 per hour in 2026, within a broader $45–$200 range depending on market and job type. Emergency work averages around $170 per hour.
Compare written scopes rather than totals, and check the price against published 2026 ranges for the same job. If a bid is far outside the range in either direction, ask what's different about it.
Licensing requirements are set by states and sometimes tightened locally, so the answer varies. Look up your state's plumbing or contractor licensing board and search any license number you're given before hiring.
Tank units typically last 8–12 years; tankless typically 15–20 years with routine descaling. Hard water shortens both.
Yes. Turn off all water use, read the meter, wait two hours without using water, and read it again. Movement means a leak. This is the EPA's recommended method and it costs nothing.
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The wrong plumbing hire costs more than the right one.

Plumbing failures compound. The leak is cheap; the floor, the joists and the mould behind them are not. Getting matched takes about a minute, costs nothing, and you can walk away from every quote you receive.

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