Plumbing & Gas Piping · five boroughs
A leak with a correction date is not a lead. It is a job with a deadline on it.
Defective faucets, leaking risers, no hot water, gas piping conditions — HPD and DOB write these as orders with a date. In a rented building the landlord cannot ignore a plumbing order for long, because the class of violation escalates and the penalty compounds. We watch every plumbing and gas order in the five boroughs and name the agent on file.
Every violation in New York has a deadline, a penalty, and somebody who has to hire you.
Plumbing & Gas Piping leads, $199 a month.
First month free on Alert. No contract, cancel any time. That works out to about $3 per ranked plumbing lead with the owner or managing agent already named on it.
The arithmetic, in plumbing job values
One job. That is the whole break-even.
Plumbing job values are the most conservative of any trade we publish, and the arithmetic still works on a single job.
Job values are the declared valuations filed with the City on work at the buildings we score, not our estimates. Where a trade has too few declared values to be honest about, we do not publish a median — which is why there is no mold or lead page here yet.
One real record, start to finish
What a plumbing lead actually looks like
Public record, pulled from the feed, scored, and handed over with the contact resolved. This is a real open violation — the agent's name is the part you are paying for, so it is withheld here.
80 East 93 Street Brooklyn
§ 27-2026 ADM CODE — repair the leaky and/or defective faucets at sink in the kitchen, Apt B621
The Play
The correction date has already passed, which is the most useful fact on the record. An overdue Class B is on its way to escalating, so the opening line is not "do you need a plumber" — it is that the order is past due and you can close it this week.
Every lead carries one of these. It is the difference between a row of data and knowing what to say when they pick up.
Why this is not a lead list
Marketplace leads sell intent. A violation is an obligation with a date on it.
A plumbing enquiry from a lead marketplace is somebody deciding whether to replace a water heater. A Class C hot water order is a landlord who is already out of time.
You are one of five plumbers who bought that same marketplace form. On a violation, the constraint is not competition for the form — it is who reads the public record first.
Marketplaces cannot tell you the violation class. Class C means immediately hazardous, and it is why some of these calls end in a same-week purchase order.
How it works
Four steps, every night, before you are awake.
We read the city, nightly
Fourteen datasets — DOB, ECB, HPD, FISP — refreshed every night. See every one on the data page.
We keep the ones with a deadline
Most of what the city publishes is paperwork. We keep records that carry a correction date, a filing date or an unpaid balance — something that forces a decision.
We name the human
Owner of record, or the managing agent registered with HPD where one is on file, with a confidence band on the resolution so you know how hard the number was to find.
It is in your inbox before you open the truck
Ranked, filtered to your trade and boroughs, with The Play on each one. 6:00am on First Look, 9:00am on Alert and Pro.
Against the alternatives
What plumbing contractors use now, and what it costs them.
| BuildDocket | Shared lead marketplaces | Pulling NYC Open Data yourself | Referrals and word of mouth | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What triggers the lead | An open violation with a correction deadline | Somebody filled in a form | Whatever you remembered to query | Chance |
| Is there a deadline on it | Yes, and it is on the record | No | Only if you built the logic | No |
| Contact resolved | Owner or HPD-registered agent, with a confidence band | The form filler | You do the reverse lookups | Already known |
| How many others got it | Capped by tier | As many as paid | Unknown | One |
| Told you what to say | The Play, on every lead | No | No | N/A |
| Monthly cost | $199, first month free | Per-lead, and rising | Your time, nightly | Nothing, and unpredictable |
We are a commercial general contractor that got tired of buying leads from people who had never run a job. That is the whole origin story.
Do not take the numbers on trust.
Every figure on this page is read live from the same database that builds the digest. The data page lists all fourteen city datasets, the record counts, when each was last refreshed, and the open count for every division we sell.
Questions
Plumbing contractors ask these first.
Are these small repairs or real work?
Both, and the small ones matter more than they look. A managing agent with one overdue faucet order usually has a portfolio of buildings and a standing need for a plumber who answers.
Do you cover gas piping?
Yes. Gas conditions are separated out by the same segmentation that routes leaks and hot water, and they score high because the deadline pressure on a gas order is severe.
Am I competing with every plumber in the city for these?
The data is public, so anyone can go find it — almost nobody does, and the tiers cap how many subscribers receive the same lead.
What does it cost, and is there a contract?
Alert is $199 a month with the first month free. No contract, cancel any time. Pro is $399 and First Look is $899.
How many other contractors get the same lead?
Capped by tier rather than sold to whoever turns up. The point of a cap is that the lead is still worth calling when you get it.
Where does the data come from?
NYC Open Data — DOB, ECB, HPD and the FISP filings — plus the registration and tax roll records used to resolve the contact. It is public record. The work is in filtering it, ranking it and naming the human, and that is what you are paying for.
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