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Plumbing Estimating Software That Builds Quotes in Minutes

Talk through the job. Tibr turns it into a clear, itemised quote — labour, materials, fittings and exclusions handled, on your own rates.

Bathroom refit

Quote #1043 · 3-bed semi

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Strip out & dispose old suite£190

Bath, basin & WC · supply & fit£680

First & second fix pipework£460

Wall & floor tiling£620

Labour · 4 days£1,150

Total excl. VAT £3,100

Example only — Tibr builds quotes on your own rates, not ours.

Who it’s for

Plumbers and heating engineers pricing bathrooms, boilers and repipes
Gas engineers quoting boiler swaps, heating upgrades and servicing
Anyone quoting new-build, commercial or maintenance plumbing who needs a quote that stacks up

Why Tibr

Catch the fittings and bits of work you'd normally miss with prompts tuned to plumbing
Every quote comes out in the same clear structure — no more one-off spreadsheets
Scope, assumptions and exclusions spelled out, so there's no argument later
Clean, itemised PDF you can send — your data exports out whenever you want

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Where plumbing quotes leak time and margin

Most of a plumbing job is hidden — pipe runs behind walls, work under floors, the making good once it's all back together. It's easy to forget a fitting, guess a run that turns out twice as long, or price up a bathroom off a couple of scribbled lines. Then the quote takes all evening to write up neat, and by the time it lands the customer's already had two others. Every forgotten line and every late quote eats your margin, and sometimes the job.

Missed fittings and making good → work you have to swallow or argue over
Every quote written from scratch → hours of admin, quotes go out late
Hidden work guessed, not priced → the margin's gone before you start

Plumber working on pipework under a sink — The job's under the floor and behind the wall — the quote still has to catch it.

How Tibr works for plumbing work

Talk through the job. Describe the bathroom, the boiler swap or the repipe in plain words, or paste your notes from the site visit.
Tibr builds the quote. Strip-out, first fix, appliances and fittings, second fix, testing and making good — line items and labour, structured on your own rates.
Prompts catch the gaps. Isolation valves, access panels, boxing in, chasing walls, commissioning, waste and old-appliance removal, notification.
Assumptions & exclusions in writing. Plain wording that spells out what's in and what's not, so there's no argument once the water's back on.
Review, then send. Edit every line — prices, quantities and scope stay yours — then send a clean, itemised PDF.

How a plumbing quote comes together in Tibr

You've been asked to price a bathroom refit and a boiler move on a semi. You paste your notes and start talking — "rip out the old suite, new bath, toilet and basin, retile walls and floor, swap the old system boiler for a combi and move it to the utility, run new gas and condensate, first and second fix, tidy up and make good." Within seconds the quote is laid out section by section: strip-out, first fix pipework, gas and boiler, appliances and fittings, tiling, second fix, and making good.

Then the prompts start. Isolation valves on the new runs? Access panel for the shower valve? Boxing in the pipework? Chasing walls and making good after? Old boiler and suite taken away? Commissioning and a gas safety check? Any building notification for the boiler? You confirm or dismiss each one and the lines adjust — no more finding out mid-job that you never priced the muck-away or the making good because it was buried in your notes.

Because you did a similar refit last month, Tibr pulls that job's structure and pre-fills quantities you can adjust. You tweak the tiling area, add an option for an unvented cylinder instead of the combi, pull your usual assumptions and exclusions across, and send a clean, branded quote with each section itemised. Time taken: same evening, not three — and every line was yours to review before it went out.

Tibr vs. pricing a plumbing job by hand

The usual job starts by copying last bathroom's spreadsheet and hoping the items still apply. You re-type the same suite and fittings you typed last month. You forget the making good until you're standing in the room, and you leave the boxing in off the price because you were rushing to get it out. You spend the last hour of the evening formatting it to look tidy, then realise you never added the old-boiler removal. The quote goes out late, the number's light, or both — and you don't find out until you're stood in the customer's kitchen explaining an extra.

In Tibr, that same job starts from a reusable template off your last similar refit. The sections are already there. Your saved rates have your labour and material prices in, so you're pricing, not building a spreadsheet from scratch. Prompted checklists walk you through the bits that usually get missed — isolation, access, making good, commissioning, removal. Your assumptions and exclusions carry across. You review every line, then send a tidy, branded PDF. Same job, same evening — and you actually get to sit down.

Jobs plumbers price with Tibr

Bathroom & kitchen refits. The bread-and-butter job — strip-out, first fix, appliances, tiling and second fix, then all the making good. Every refit looks similar but the details differ. Tibr lets you start from a past refit and adjust section by section instead of writing the scope from scratch.

Boiler swaps & heating upgrades. Combi swaps, system-to-combi conversions, unvented cylinders, new rads and controls. The risk is the bits around the boiler — gas run, condensate, flue, filter, power flush, notification. Tibr prompts for each so they're priced explicitly, not forgotten.

Repipes & renovations. Older houses mean unknown conditions — lead or galvanised runs, undersized pipework, hidden joints. Most of the work is behind walls and under floors. Tibr flags allowances for lifting and reinstating, making good and the exploratory work that protects your margin when the boards come up.

Service, repair & maintenance. Smaller scope, faster turnaround. Tibr handles quick quotes with your saved rate cards so you can price a leak, a valve or a cylinder swap from the van without opening a laptop.

New-build & commercial. More systems, more repetition — hot and cold, waste, heating and gas across several floors or units. Tibr keeps each system in its own section and breaks the job down by floor, area or phase, so nothing gets buried in a single lump-sum line.

Typical scope covered

Tibr lays a plumbing quote out section by section so every part of the job gets priced, spelled out and checked for gaps. Instead of a flat spreadsheet where it all blurs together, each section has its own lines, allowances and exclusions.

Strip-out & disconnection
Hot & cold pipework
Soil, waste & drainage
Boiler, gas & condensate
Cylinders & storage
Radiators & controls
Underfloor heating
Bath, basin, toilet & shower
Taps, valves & fittings
Isolation & access panels
Chasing, boxing in & first fix
Tiling & second fix
Making good & reinstatement
Commissioning & testing
Waste, removal & final clean

Sole traders

Turn site notes into a tidy quote in minutes, from the van
Save and reuse your own rates so you're not starting from scratch
Win more work by getting a clear quote out first

Plumbing & heating firms

Every quote in the same clear structure, whoever writes it
Fewer missed items means fewer extras eating the margin
Clear scope and exclusions cut the arguments on site

Customers

A clear, itemised quote they can actually understand
Scope, assumptions and exclusions spelled out up front
Fewer surprises — so fewer arguments once the job starts

What you send, and what comes out

The quote comes out as a clean PDF, laid out section by section — each part showing line items, quantities, rates and subtotals, with your branding on the front. Assumptions, exclusions and any allowances are called out plainly, so the customer can see exactly what's included without having to guess.

Your rates stay saved and reusable — put your labour and material prices in once and they carry into every future quote. Update a price once and the new number flows through, so you're not copying figures off an old spreadsheet and hoping they're still right. Your data is yours: export it out whenever you need to.

You stay in control

Nothing reaches the customer until you've reviewed and edited it
Built on your own rates — Tibr never invents numbers or sets your margin
Your data is encrypted, and it's yours to export whenever you want

What plumbers get out of it

A quote that used to eat your evening goes out same-day. The time comes back from not rewriting the sections on every job, not re-typing the same suite and fittings, and not spending the last hour hunting for the exclusions you forgot to add. Section-by-section prompts mean fewer missed lines — and fewer awkward extras once the walls are open.

The quotes themselves change the conversation. Instead of a lump sum with a one-line scope, the customer gets a clear breakdown they can read line by line and compare against other plumbers. Not because you're the cheapest — because yours is the quote they can actually understand and trust.

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FAQs

How do I price up a plumbing job?

Work through it in stages — strip-out, first fix pipework, fittings and appliances, second fix, then testing and making good — and price each part off your own labour and material rates. The hard part isn't the sums, it's catching every fitting, isolation valve and bit of making good before the price goes out, especially on a repipe where half the work is hidden behind walls and under floors. Tibr structures the breakdown and prompts for the items that usually slip through.

What's the best estimating software for plumbers?

It depends where your bottleneck is. If you just need to log jobs and raise invoices, a job-management app does that. If your problem is turning a bathroom, a boiler swap or a repipe into a clear, itemised quote you can actually send — structured, priced on your rates, with scope and exclusions spelled out — that's where Tibr fits.

How do plumbers work out job costs?

Most plumbers build a price from their own labour rate, the cost of the appliances and fittings, and an allowance for the bits you can't see until you open it up. The risk is in the gaps — a fitting you forgot to count, a bit of making good you didn't price, or a hidden run of pipework that turns out to be twice as long as it looked. Tibr keeps the whole job in front of you so those gaps get caught before the quote goes out.

How accurate is AI for plumbing estimates?

AI won't replace your judgement on the numbers — the rates and the margin stay yours. What it's good at is structure: making sure every part of the job has a line, every section has its assumptions, and the usual allowances aren't skipped. Think of it as a checklist that has seen every job you've priced. Tibr flags the gaps before the price goes out, and you review and edit every line before it's sent.

Can Tibr handle a bathroom refit or a repipe?

Yes. A bathroom refit runs from strip-out and first fix through to tiling, appliances and second fix — Tibr keeps each part in its own section with line items, assumptions and exclusions so nothing gets lumped together and lost. A repipe is mostly about the hidden work, so Tibr prompts for the runs, the isolation, the making good and the reinstatement — the bits behind the walls that get forgotten and then eat your margin.

Will Tibr prompt for the bits I usually forget?

The prompts cover the items that most often turn into an argument after the job — isolation valves, access panels, boxing in, making good and reinstatement, chasing walls, commissioning and testing, waste and old-appliance removal, and any building notification. You can dismiss any prompt that doesn't apply, but you won't skip one just because you were rushing to get the quote out.

Can I reuse a quote for jobs I price all the time?

Yes. If you regularly quote the same kind of work — a standard bathroom refit, a combi swap, a repipe — you can save the whole job as a starting point: the sections, the usual items, your assumptions and your exclusions. Next time a similar job comes in you start from that and adjust the quantities instead of building it from scratch. Your saved rates carry over too, so your prices stay current across quotes.

Does it work for commercial and new-build plumbing too?

Yes. A bigger job — a new-build site, a commercial fit-out, a block of flats — has more systems and more repetition, which is exactly where a flat spreadsheet falls down. Tibr keeps hot and cold, waste, heating and gas in their own sections and breaks the job down by floor, area or phase, so nothing gets buried in one lump-sum line and the subbie and supplier prices drop into the right place.

What do I actually send the customer?

A clean, itemised PDF with your branding — laid out section by section, each showing the line items, quantities, rates and subtotals, with your scope, assumptions and exclusions spelled out plainly. The customer gets a quote they can actually read and trust, not a lump sum with no breakdown. Your data is yours — export it out whenever you need to.