What goes on a plumbing quote
A plumbing quote works where the pipe run is already known — a bathroom you have surveyed, a like-for-like water heater swap, a reroute you have already opened up. Away from those, a fixed price on plumbing is a bet on what somebody did behind the plaster thirty years ago, and it is a bet the customer is asking you to take on your own.
- Exactly what is being fitted, by make and model, and who is supplying it
- The pipework included: how far, in what material, and whether it runs inside the walls
- Isolation and drain-down, and how long the water will be off
- Patching and repair — tile, drywall, flooring — in or out, said either way
- Commissioning and certification where the job needs it
- What voids the price: what you find when the floor comes up
- Both signatures, and how long the price stands
The sample line items and example prices this sheet opens with are on the plumbing invoice template — the same table, which is about the trade rather than about this paper, so it lives in one place rather than on all six. Working out the price itself? The markup calculator turns your cost and markup into the figure to put on the quote, and shows the margin it leaves.
What you get
A PDF, and a link your customer can open in any browser. Word and Excel versions are not available yet — if a spreadsheet is what you need, this is not yet the tool for it, and saying so is cheaper for both of us than you finding out after typing everything in.
Pick how it looks
Six looks, from a plain classic sheet through a bold top band to a shop ticket, and your initials go on automatically until you upload a logo. See all six.
How to send it
Most customers want the paper on their phone, so the quote goes out by WhatsApp, text or email, or as a link that needs no app and no account on their side. Or download the PDF to print it or keep it for your own records.
Questions
Can I give a fixed price without opening anything up?
On a like-for-like swap, usually. On anything involving a pipe run you cannot see, you are pricing somebody else’s work from decades ago. Either survey it first, or quote the visible part and estimate the rest — one document doing both without saying which is how fixed prices turn into losses.
Who should supply the fixtures?
Say on the quote, because it changes everything underneath. If the customer supplies, your price covers fitting only and the warranty on the unit is theirs. If you supply, you carry the markup and the replacement when it fails in a year. Both are fine; being vague about it is not.