PlumbingPro Franchise
Build and lead as the CEO a professional and lucrative plumbing company. PlumbingPro gives experienced executives and leaders the systems, recruiting, marketing, and operational support to build an essential-services business while creating a long-term appreciating and valuable asset.
$100,000
$147,500
6
2018
Lafayette, LA
Don Marks
About PlumbingPro
Plumbing is one of the services people and businesses simply can’t do without. PlumbingPro gives experienced business leaders the opportunity to own and grow a professional plumbing company without needing to be a plumber.
The PlumbingPro Executive Business Model is built around a simple idea: you lead the business while licensed plumbing professionals handle the technical work. Your focus is on hiring and developing the right people, managing the business, growing your customer base, and building a company that can operate beyond your personal involvement.
The plumbing market is large, growing, and highly fragmented. PlumbingPro operates in a market estimated at more than $100 billion, with strong demand for repairs, replacements, maintenance, and emergency services. Minimum exclusive territories are designed to serve markets of approximately 500,000+ people, giving franchise owners room to build a meaningful local business.
Customers need plumbing services in good economic times and bad. Leaking pipes, clogged drains, water heaters, sewer issues, and other plumbing problems can’t simply be put off. That creates a strong foundation for a business built around essential, year-round demand.
For executives, business owners, and investors, PlumbingPro offers a way to apply proven leadership and business skills to an essential service industry. You aren’t buying yourself a job as a plumber. You are building and leading a company with the potential to create an enviable income today and become a valuable asset you own when the time comes for you to meet your exit plan.
Franchise Unit Trends
6
5
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* in 2025
Franchise Fees
$147,500
6.0%
Gross Sales
1.0%
Gross Sales
Why Choose PlumbingPro?
Why Executives Choose PlumbingPro
Starting an independent plumbing company means figuring out everything yourself, from marketing and recruiting to technology, operations, vendors, and customer service. PlumbingPro gives you a proven business model and a national brand so you can spend more time leading the company and less time building the system.
Key advantages include:
- Executive Business Model: You run and scale the business and build the team. Licensed plumbing professionals handle the technical work, so you don’t need plumbing experience.
- Essential-Service Demand: Plumbing problems don’t wait for the economy to improve. Repairs, emergencies, replacements, maintenance, and commercial work create ongoing demand.
- Large, Fragmented Market: Plumbing is a major industry made up of thousands of local operators. A professional brand with strong systems can compete effectively in a market where many businesses lack the resources and structure of a national organization.
- Exclusive Territories: Minimum territories are designed around approximately 500,000+ people, giving owners the opportunity to build a substantial local customer base.
- Marketing and Technology: PlumbingPro provides tools and support for generating leads, managing customers, improving operations, and tracking business performance.
- Recruiting Support: Building the right team is critical. PlumbingPro helps owners find and hire qualified people for the roles needed to operate and grow the company.
- Vendor Relationships and Support: Franchise owners benefit from established relationships, business systems, training, coaching, and the experience of a larger organization.
The goal is to give experienced leaders what they need to build and scale a professional plumbing company without having to learn the trade or reinvent the business from the ground up.
Starting Costs & Investment Requirements
$406,738 - $425,337
$500,000
$100,000
Training & Support
You don’t need plumbing experience to own a PlumbingPro franchise. The training and support are designed to teach you how to run the business while licensed professionals handle the technical work.
Before opening, you receive training on the key areas of operating the business, including sales, marketing, financial management, recruiting, customer service, technology, and day-to-day operations. The goal is to give you a clear understanding of the business before you open your doors.
PlumbingPro also provides support with building your team and acquiring your state license. Finding qualified plumbing professionals is one of the most important parts of the business, and the franchise system provides recruiting guidance and resources to help you identify, interview, and hire the people you need.
Marketing support helps you build awareness and generate customers in your local market. You also have access to business systems and technology designed to help manage customers, leads, scheduling, financial information, and other important parts of the operation.
Once you are open, support doesn’t stop. Franchise owners receive ongoing coaching and guidance to help them understand their numbers, improve performance, solve problems, and identify opportunities for growth.
You also benefit from the experience of the broader PlumbingPro network. Instead of learning everything through trial and error if you started from scratch, you have access to a business model, training, tools, and people who can help you along the way.
The result is an opportunity for an experienced business leader to enter the plumbing industry without having to learn the tradefirst. You bring the leadership and business skills. PlumbingPro provides the training, systems, and support to help you put those skills to work.
History
PlumbingPro was built around a straightforward idea: create a professional plumbing business that combines an essential business that is recission-resistant with the business systems needed to deliver a better customer experience and build a stronger, more profitable company.
The plumbing industry has thousands of independent operators. Many understand how to work on plumbing systems but don’t have the marketing, recruiting, technology, customer-service, and management systems needed to grow beyond a small local operation. PlumbingPro was created to bring those business disciplines together under one brand.
The franchise model is designed to separate the technical side of plumbing from the business side. Franchise owners can focus on leading the company, while trained and licensed professionals perform the plumbing work. This opens the opportunity to experienced business leaders who have never worked in the plumbing industry.
As the brand has developed, PlumbingPro has continued to build out its systems for marketing, recruiting, operations, technology, customer service, financial management, and training. Franchise owners gain access to those systems instead of having to create everything from scratch.
The company operates in an essential service industry with year-round demand. Plumbing problems happen every day, and homeowners, property managers, and businesses need reliable professionals to solve them.
PlumbingPro's goal is to help business-minded owners build a professional organization that can grow, produce income, and create long-term value.
For an experienced leader, that means bringing your existing business skills to an industry where demand is strong and the opportunity to build a larger, professionally managed company is significant.
Ideal Candidate
PlumbingPro is a good fit for people who know how to lead, manage, hire, sell, solve problems, and grow a business. You don’t need to be a plumber. You need to know how to build a team and run a business with our support.
The strongest candidates are business builders who are comfortable taking responsibility for results. They know how to set goals, manage budgets, hold people accountable, develop employees, and make sound business decisions.
PlumbingPro may appeal to executives, corporate leaders, operations managers, sales leaders, finance professionals, consultants, military leaders, engineers, business owners, and investors who want to put their experience to work building something they own.
You should be comfortable leading people rather than doing the technical work yourself. Your role is to recruit the right employees, create a strong culture, manage performance, develop customers, and grow the business assisted by a strong operations and marketing team.
This opportunity can also appeal to professionals looking for greater independence, investors seeking an essential-service business, or experienced leaders planning their next chapter.
If you have spent your career creating value for someone else's company, PlumbingPro gives you the opportunity to build a valuable asset of your own.