How to Find a Local Plumber Online

Posted on April 21, 2017 at 12:28 AM

Finding a local plumber online used to be incredibly hard. Now with Fixington, it couldn’t be simpler or faster.

There are two ways you can find a local plumber online. There’s the old way, which involves trawling through countless unreliable websites, and there’s the new way, which involves going straight to Fixington to find a local plumber online fast.

First, let’s look at the old, outdated way…

Finding a Local Plumber Online (The Old Way)

1. Use Google, Bing, Yahoo, or whatever search engine it is that you use to find the website of a plumber who works in your area.
2. Discover that most independent plumbers don’t really have websites.
3. Eventually end up on a website where, so you’re told, you can book a plumber online — only to wind up with a phone number.
4. Ring up the plumber and wonder why you didn’t just go to the Yellow Pages or ask a friend.
5. Go to the Yellow Pages.
6. Ask yourself — as you speak to a plumber on the phone with the Yellow Pages in hand — whether this is 2017 or 1995.
7. Give up on the whole thing and go with the plumber your friend recommended.
8. Spend a good 15 minutes on the phone explaining to this plumber where you live.
9. Tell them just to type your address into Google maps.
10. They type your address into Google maps.
11. They find your address.
12. Spend another 15 minutes hashing out a time that would suit you both.
13. Finally, agree to a time.
14. End the call.
15. Make a cup of tea to de-stress from the whole fiasco.

Does this sound familiar? Why is it that we live in a world where we can order or book almost anything online — whether that’s a five-star hotel in Wandsworth or a USB to jack adapter — but we still have to go scurrying around offline to find a decent plumber?

Well, scurry no more. Here’s the new way to find a local plumber online…

Finding a Local Plumber Online (The New Way)

1. Head over to Fixington.
2. Enter your details and book your plumber.
3. There is no step three.

This is how it should be. This is how easy it is to find pretty much anything else online. So how does Fixington make things so simple? And why were things so difficult in the past?

Booking Plumbers Through Fixington…

The tradesperson industry is fractured — and this includes plumbing. Most tradespeople are independent, so difficulty finding the right tradespeople for a job has become something of a crisis in the UK.

On the one hand, it’s good that most tradespeople are independent because, in the long run, this is better for consumers. More independence means more competition and more competition means lower prices for consumers. This isn’t just true of the trade industry; it’s how economies work.

On the other hand, people are rightly frustrated by the fact that they can’t find a plumber easily when they want to. There’s no one place to find the UK’s many independent plumbers. Or, rather, there didn’t use to be.

With Fixington, you can find a self-employed plumber in your area quickly. All of our plumbers are members of a UK government competent person scheme and use the Fixington app. For both our tradespeople and our customers, the whole system runs like Uber.

For plumbers and other tradespeople, the Fixington app gives them a schedule breaking down exactly when they’re available. For customers, you can pick a time that suits you and we’ll find someone to sort out your exact problem in your location.

It’s how the trade industry should work in the 21st Century.

So whether you need a professional, reliable plumber to install a washing machine, repair your taps, or anything in between, you can do it through Fixington — quickly and easily.

Contact Fixington today to book a reliable plumber online fast. No faff, no fuss, just a quick estimate on your plumbing problem in a matter of minutes.

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