Plumbing estimate template
A plumbing estimate with repair, replace and upgrade side by side: the call, the labour, the fixtures and valves, and taking the old ones away, priced from your own rate.
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Plumbing · Estimate
What goes on a plumbing estimate
The tool above opens on a made-up plumbing estimate, so you can see the finished paper before you put in your own. Every name and price in the example is made up.
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Repair, replace or upgrade
Three options on one page, so the customer chooses instead of waiting for another quote.
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Fixtures by name
The faucet, valve or water heater named and sized, so the invoice and the warranty match what went in.
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What could change it
Damage behind the wall, old shut-offs that won't close, and permits, said before the work starts.
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Water heaters at the door
Where you work, a water heater sold at the customer's home can come with extra rules. The trades page has them side by side.
The papers of one plumbing job
Each one hands what it knows to the next: the rate prices the estimate, the estimate becomes the invoice, and the unit on the invoice goes on the warranty and into the plan. A plan's visit that finds work starts the next estimate.
- 1 Hourly rate
- 2 Estimate You're here
- 3 Invoice Next
- 4 Warranty certificate
- 5 Maintenance plan
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Every rule an estimate or a sale at the door has to follow, side by side by place: the trades page
How it works
- 1 Say what kind of work you do. The estimate starts with the usual lines for it, with no prices: you fill those in.
- 2 Price each line your way: type the price, or let your hourly rate or your markup on cost work it out. Your cost and wage stay on your side; customers never see them. Signed in, describe the job in your own words and the AI drafts the lines for you to price.
- 3 Want to offer a choice? Turn on good, better and best, tick which lines go in each, and mark the one you recommend.
- 4 Print the estimate for the customer, a job sheet with a shopping list for you, and a change form for when the job grows.
Free, with no account. Everything is worked out on this page: the job, the prices and the dates are never sent to us, put in a link or saved, and the customer isn't either unless you sign in and keep them in your customers. They're kept in your account for you only, never in a link, a log or an AI prompt. Remember keeps only your business details and your lines, on this device, and only while it's on.
Good to know
- What's Ontario's 10% rule?
- When a consumer contract includes an estimate, Ontario's Consumer Protection Act says you can't charge more than 10% above it unless the customer agrees to the extra or different work. The panel shows where that line sits for your estimate, and the “If the job changes” tab checks a new price against it and prints a change form for the customer to sign. The check is on the price before tax. Protecting consumer rights and safety
- What goes to the AI?
- Only when you're signed in and ask for a draft: the description you typed, the kind of work, and the words and units of the lines on your past estimates, so it can use your own wording. Anything that looks like a phone number, an email or a postal code is taken out first, and the page asks you to leave names and addresses out. Your prices, costs and customers never go: each drafted line is priced on this page, from your hourly rate or the last price you put on the same line. The AI only counts, and what it counts is a draft: check every line before you send it. LocoTap doesn't keep or log the description or the answer; we only count the ask, so the daily limit works.
- Estimate or quote?
- People use both words for the same thing. What matters is what the paper says: an estimate in Ontario carries the 10% line, so the printout says it's an estimate and, if you leave the promise on, says so in plain words.
- What should a written contract say?
- In Ontario a consumer contract over $50 for work done later has to be in writing. The checklist in the panel follows Ontario's guide for home renovation and roofing businesses: who you are, an itemized description, warranties, the total with taxes, start and finish dates, sub-trades, payment terms and cleanup. For other kinds of work it's a sound list too.
- Signed at the customer's home?
- Then they can cancel within 10 days after they get their written copy, and some products, like furnaces, air conditioners and water heaters, can only be sold at the home if the customer contacted you first (verify which products count). Ontario explains it in its rules for contracts in a consumer's home.
- Markup or margin?
- Markup is added on top of your cost; margin is the share of the price that's left after it. A 50% markup on $100 of materials makes $150, and that's a 33% margin, not 50%. The “Markup and margin” tab turns one into the other, so you can price to the margin you meant.
- Which tax goes on the estimate?
- If you're registered, GST or HST at your province's rate, with PST on top where it applies, usually on materials. Small suppliers under $30,000 a year in sales don't have to register (verify), and then charge no GST/HST. CRA's rates calculator has the rate for each province.
- How big a deposit?
- Ontario's renovation guide warns customers about large deposits. Many businesses ask for 10% or less, or enough to cover materials they have to order. For renovation work, the tool points out a deposit over 10% so you can decide.
- Is this legal advice?
- Guidance, not legal advice. It's based on Ontario's consumer rules and CRA's rates as checked in October 2026. Other provinces have their own consumer laws, and selling to a business is different again. Check anything you're unsure of with a lawyer or your province.
Where it fits in a trade
Pricing the job Know the rate that pays you, price the jobs you do again and again from one book, measure it up or price a home's cleaning by the room, hand the customer a written estimate with the rebates they may get, and have them sign the contract.
Its work comes from
- Hourly rate finder The rate you need to charge, once it's remembered Works now
- Crew labour rate A crew hour's rate and what it costs you, once it's remembered Works now
- Licence and clearance card Your licence numbers and cover, as a line under your name Works now
- Van stock list Which van has each part on the shopping list, and how many Works now
- Rebate finder The rebates the customer may get, as a line for the estimate's notes Works now
- House cleaning price calculator The cleaning quote, as the estimate's lines and what every visit covers Works now
- Flat-rate price book A task from the book, as a line at its price Works now
- Invoice maker The job, signed in, to open its estimate Works now
- Home profile A job done there to open, the place to start one at, or the repair and the replacement picked from the price book, as its tasks Works now
It hands its work on to
- Van stock list The parts on each job marked done, signed in, to take off the van they came from Works now
- Rebate finder The job, to check its rebates from the upgrades its estimate looks like Works now
- House cleaning price calculator The job, to price its cleaning by the room Works now
- Invoice maker The job, signed in (or a remembered estimate's lines), priced as quoted Works now
- Renovation contract The job, to write its contract from the estimate Works now
- Change order slip The job, to write a change against its estimate Works now
- Home profile The job's place, to see what's there and the way in Works now
- Equipment warranty certificate The job done, to write the warranty on what went in Works now
A hand-off only moves when you press it, and never through a link: signed in, the next tool reads your account's book; signed out, it waits in this browser until the next tool picks it up.
Pricing the job
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Hourly rate finder
Start from the pay you need to take home. Get the rate to charge, with income tax, both halves of CPP, costs and unpaid hours worked in, and a price for every service.
Save it: your rate and price list, checked each year
Crew labour rate
A wage isn't what an hour costs. Put in the crew, the working year and the vans, and see what a crew hour really costs and what to charge for it, for the crew and for each role.
Save it: your crew's rate, for the estimate builder
Flat-rate price book
Write down the jobs you do again and again, with the hours and the parts each takes. Every one is priced the same way: your rate, each part marked up by its price, rounded up. One price to say at the door, what an hour of each job earns, and a price list for the customer.
Save it: your price book, kept in step when your rate or parts go up
Rebate finder
The rebates a homeowner may get for a heat pump, insulation, windows or solar, worked out with a home energy assessment and without. See which way pays more, what each rebate hangs on, and the steps in the order that keeps it, with a handout for the homeowner.
Save it: your checks, with Today saying when a pre-approval or a claim is due
House cleaning price calculator
Count the rooms, say how often and the state of the home, and add the extras. Get the price a visit, the first deep clean's and every frequency side by side, from your own hour and your own pace, with who cleans what and a quote for the customer.
Save it: your numbers and quotes, for the estimate builder
Renovation contract
Turn the estimate they said yes to into the written contract: the price and taxes, what's paid when, the dates and the terms. Both sign on your phone, and signed at their home it prints with their rights and counts their 10 days to cancel.
Save it: each job's contract, signed and locked
Change order slip
Have the customer sign a change on your phone before the extra work starts: what it adds, the new price and the days, against the estimate and its 10% line.
Save it: each change, signed, on its job
Paint calculator
Enter each room once. See it unfolded in your colours, and get the litres, the cheapest mix of cans and a job sheet to print.
Save it: every job's rooms and colours, ready to quote again
Snow pricing calculator
Measure the driveway, walks or lot and see what one push costs you, then price it per push, per snowfall, by the hour or for the season. See which way pays in a light or heavy winter, plan the storm-night route, and print the quote.
Save it: your sizes, rates, costs, winter and route times
Snow removal contract
Write one place's winter down before the first snow: what's cleared, the snow that starts a visit, when it's done by and how it's paid. They sign on your phone, each payment is billed when it's due, and the visits it pays for are never billed twice.
Save it: each place's contract, signed, season after season