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Plumbing Contractors · Pacific Northwest
Plumbing work is constant. Managing the business behind it shouldn't have to be.
You've built a multi-crew plumbing operation on reputation and hard work. The back office never quite kept up. Change orders go unbilled, material costs show up late, and the scheduling chaos lands on you every time there's an emergency.
Why this trade is different
Three kinds of work, one schedule, different economics.
Plumbing Operations
Plumbing businesses are defined by unpredictability. Emergency calls, material cost fluctuations, and large commercial jobs with complex documentation requirements make plumbing one of the hardest trades to systematize. Most plumbing owners are exceptional at the work and at building client relationships. Running the back office behind a multi-crew plumbing operation is a fundamentally different skill set, and it's where the margin quietly disappears.
What we fix
The gaps that cost you more every month you leave them unfixed.
Change orders get approved verbally and disappear from billing.
A tech gets the go-ahead on-site, notes it somewhere, and it doesn't make it to the invoice. Over a month of jobs, that's not a rounding error. It's a real margin gap with no system in place to close it.
Emergency calls disrupt every planned job on the board.
You can't turn down an emergency. But every time you take one, another job gets rescheduled, a crew gets redeployed, and you absorb the coordination cost. Without a system built for it, that cost is invisible and ongoing every week.
Material costs blow past the estimate on complex jobs.
Multi-phase plumbing jobs move fast and materials change. Without a system tracking actuals against estimates by job in real time, you find out you lost money after the job closes and the crew has already moved on.
Commercial work requires documentation your operation isn't set up to provide.
General contractors require certified payroll, subcontractor documentation packages, and change order trails on commercial work. If you're not set up to produce them cleanly, you're losing the bids that would grow your company fastest.
Services
Everything we build for plumbing contractors.
We don't pick one lane. We find where the friction is and start with what's costing you most.
Field Service ManagementServiceTitan Setup & SupportHousecall Pro Setup & SupportTechnology Stack AuditQuickBooks IntegrationOperations ManagementDispatch & Scheduling SystemsJob CostingSOP DevelopmentChange Order Systems
Also serving
Other trades we work with.
HVAC Contractors
Service and install competing for the same dispatcher, and a July that stress tests everything at once.
Electrical Contractors
Permit and inspection tracking, plus prevailing wage documentation on public work.
Roofing Contractors
Weather driven scheduling and change orders that go unbilled more often than in any other trade.
Where we work
Plumbing Contractors operations across the Northwest.
All work is remote, so location never changes what we can do. These pages cover the market specifics for each city.
Portland, ORSalem, OREugene, ORBend, ORMedford, ORHillsboro, ORGresham, ORCorvallis, ORAlbany, ORGrants Pass, ORRoseburg, ORKlamath Falls, OR
Seattle, WASpokane, WATacoma, WAVancouver, WABellevue, WAKennewick, WAYakima, WABellingham, WAOlympia, WAEverett, WA
Questions
What owners ask us first.
Do you work with residential and commercial plumbing contractors?
Yes. The documentation requirements differ significantly but we work with both. Commercial plumbing specifically requires certified payroll, subcontractor documentation, and change order systems that most residential plumbing operations have never needed to build.
Can you help fix our change order process?
That's one of the highest-ROI fixes we make in plumbing businesses. We build a change order workflow that goes from field approval to invoice without anything falling through. It's usually not a people problem. It's the absence of a system.
What does job costing for plumbing actually involve?
It means knowing your margin by job type, by crew, and by phase, in real time, not at the end of the year. We build the reporting infrastructure that gives you that clarity without requiring manual data entry after every job.
We have a dispatcher. Do you replace that role?
No. We build the systems and documentation around the roles you already have. If you have a dispatcher, we make sure they have a system to work from. If the dispatch function is falling on you, we help you build the structure to move it off your plate.
Do you require long-term contracts?
No. Month to month. You stay because the work is delivering.
What cities do you serve?
We work with plumbing contractors throughout Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, including Portland, Salem, Eugene, Bend, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Boise, and surrounding markets.
How quickly can we get the change order system running?
That's typically one of the first things we build because it has immediate financial impact. In most cases it's operational within the first few weeks of the system build phase.
Do you work with Housecall Pro or are you ServiceTitan focused?
Both. We work in whatever FSM platform your business is already using. We're not here to force a migration. We configure and optimize what you have, and if a migration is warranted, we run it properly.
Let's find out where your plumbing operation is leaking profit.
The audit is free, takes thirty minutes, and we'll show you exactly what's broken and what it's costing you. No pitch. No commitment.
Book 30 MinutesNo long-term contract. No commitment. No homework after the call.