The quote was written by the person getting paid.
There is water on your floor and a stranger in your kitchen has just said a number out loud. You have priced this job once in your life. He has priced it a thousand times.
Send the photos, one sentence, your ZIP and his number. You get back a document: what is actually wrong, what to shut off in the next ten minutes, and what that work really costs on your street.
Free, no card, no account. The Verdict is $19.
Every cost guide you can find is paid for by plumbers.
That is why their ranges are wide enough to settle nothing. A range that fits every answer is not an answer.
We read it line by line.
Half-inch type M runs $18–$34 a length in 85015. Nothing to argue with.
A half-inch brass ball valve is $22–$30 here, fitted. You are paying a $15 finding fee.
Daytime hours run $55–$95 in this ZIP. The labour is honest. The parts are where it moves.
No permit is pulled for a valve swap in Maricopa County. Ask to see the number.
One old valve went in the van. There is nothing here to dispose of.
The quote sits above range.
You do not need a diagnosis. You need a document.
A chat window gives you a hunch. This is dated, priced and sourced, and you can hold it up. The leverage is in the paper, not the answer.
The temperature and pressure discharge line is dripping. The tank seam is dry. This is a valve job, not a heater job.
- 01Shut the cold inlet at the top of the heater. Clockwise, all the way.
- 02Kill power to the heater at the breaker before you touch the pan.
- 03Photograph the pan seam and the discharge line before anyone dries it.
A $480 tank replacement pitched to fix a $30 valve. The tank is nine years old and can wait for a written quote on a dry day.
“I want the relief valve and the discharge line done today and nothing else. Phoenix quotes for that line run $95–$140. Put the tank on a separate written quote and I will look at it next week.”
Sample Verdict, drawn from a real job type in 85015.
Photos and a sentence
Up to six photos, one line about what is happening, five digits of ZIP. No account, no password, no phone number, ever.
Triage, free, no card
What is actually wrong with a confidence figure, what else it could be, and the three things to do in the next ten minutes.
Add the plumber's number
Photograph the quote, drop the PDF, or type the total. Skippable in one tap. A job with no quote still gets a price band.
The Verdict, $19
Price band with its date and comparable count, the quote read line by line, the upsell flags, and the exact words to say.
The abstention is the product.
Angi, Thumbtack and HomeAdvisor are paid to send you a plumber. We are paid by you, once, and we sell nothing else. Here is the whole ledger.
Every quote sent to us also builds the Price book: what plumbing work was actually quoted at, by ZIP, by month, across the US. Each reported outcome makes the next stranger's band tighter. The cost-guide sites do not have that, and a chat model cannot invent it.
One payment. No subscription.
Triage is free and open. A Verdict is bought at the end of one, once you have seen the band. Landlords with a stack of invoices can buy a Pack of ten Jobs directly.
What this site will never have.
- A plumber directory
- A get-matched button
- A phone number field
- A countdown timer
- A smiling contractor with folded arms
- An upsell between the free part and the paid part
- A subscription you have to remember to cancel
And if a Verdict is wrong, reply to it. We refund in full, say what we got wrong, and there is nothing to cancel.
The bands are on the site. You do not have to pay to read them.
Ten jobs, twelve metros, every band dated and sourced. The $19 is for reading your quote against one — not for the number itself.
Never sign a plumbing invoice you have not had read.
Triage is open: free, no card, no account. Pick the job, type five digits, and get what to do in the next ten minutes plus the band for your own ZIP. The Verdict on your plumber’s number is $19.