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Up Front Price Or Time and Material?

Just about every Cobb county plumber, Paulding county plumber, and Cherokee county plumber, is using flat rate or upfront pricing now. We do too. It really is the fairest way to price a plumbing job. You know how much it’s going to cost up front – no surprises. Some say, “What’s wrong with pricing a plumbing job using time and material?” The main problem is it’s not consistent.  You may get a slow plumber one day.  He may be good, but if he’s slow he’s gonna cost you a lot more for the same plumbing job a faster plumber would. Another thing is, you never know how much it’s going to cost until the job is finished when the plumber hands you the bill.  With an up front price, you know how much it’s going to cost before the job begins and it doesn’t matter whether you get slow Joe or Speedy Pete.

Most companies purchase a pre-fab system complete with pricing manuals that have hundreds of plumbing tasks that cover just about anything that could possibly happen. That’s good too.

Here’s the problem. All the pricing books I have seen treat each task as if it’s an independent job. What does that mean? It means if you want the plumber to perform several things, the overhead costs of getting that plumber to your door are included in each task. So if you get the plumber to do 3 things, you may pay him 2 times to get to your door after he’s already there! That’s two times more than his costs.

Plumb Smart saves you that extra cost. Our custom pricing manual has reduced costs for “ad on” plumbing repairs or service items beyond the first or greatest task. Therefore when you combine several tasks into one job, you save lots of money.

Another benefit is that sometimes the price in the book just ‘aint right.  The book price is based on an average.  So if the job goes great and we get finished fast, we aren’t going to charge you the book price.  We always present the book price as the maximum cost, so you know that’s the absolute most you will pay.  Many times your costs will actually be lower.

Our philosophy is to keep your plumbing rates as low as possible and the best way to do this is to combine several plumbing services and perform them at the same time.

More often than not a customer calls to schedule plumbing service for something that takes less than an hour to correct. Guess what? We had to take the call – a real plumber answers the phone – mobilize a truck and crew, get them safely to your home, perform the task, process the invoice (which employs someone you don’t see back at our office, and get that truck and crew lined up for the next job.

That being explained, a “30 minute job at you house” often requires more than an hour of cumulative work. Therefore, just about every single task has at least an hour built into the cost. The first hour may seem expensive, but it is covering costs the customer never sees.

However, we reduce our prices dramatically if we do more than one plumbing task. We’re already there for the second, third or forth plumbing task so the cost of deployment is entirely eliminated for each additional plumbing task.

Endless Combination Packages

Just A Few Examples of Savings!

• Save $200 when you install a new water heater and a circulating pump.
• Save $174 when you have 3 toilet tanks completely rebuilt.
• Save $150 when you have us replace 3 toilets instead of just one.
• Save $174 when we install 3 lavatory faucets instead of one.

We are in your area and can be at most plumbing jobs the same day you call, whether you need a Marietta plumber, Kennesaw plumber, Acworth plumber, Smyrna plumber, Vinings plumber, Powder Springs plumber, Woodstock plumber or Roswell plumber.  Call us right now at 404-427-0302 to solve your plumbing problem.