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.
7 days free on Alert — three digests. Card on file, first charge on day 8. No contract, cancel any time. That works out to about $1 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 Where a trade has too few declared values to be honest about, we do not publish a median — which is why mold and lead lead with volume and the correction deadline instead of a job value.
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. Every fact below is real and free to anyone who knows where to look. The agent's name and the play are what you are paying for, so they stay in the digest.
8■ East 93 Street Brooklyn
§ 27-2026 ADM CODE — repair the leaky and/or defective faucets at sink in the kitchen, Apt B621
The Play
This order is already past due, and that changes the first sentence you say — not in the direction most plumbers guess. Subscribers get the play.
The house number is masked here because a full address is a free route to the name. Subscribers get it unmasked. Every lead carries a play like this — 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 every weekday, on every plan.
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 per borough | As many as paid | Unknown | One |
| Told you what to say | The Play, on every lead | No | No | N/A |
| Monthly cost | $199, 7 days 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?
$199 a month for one trade in one borough, and the first 7 days are free. Your card goes on file when you start and is first charged on day 8 -- cancel before then and you are never charged. No contract, cancel any time. Every trade-and-borough combination is the same $199, so two trades across two boroughs is four of them, $796. There is no bigger plan and no volume discount. A borough with no filings in your division is not offered at all, so there is no way to be charged for coverage that does not exist. If you want to be the only contractor sent this trade in a borough, you can buy every seat on it at $199 a seat -- on a thin combination that is a small number; ask us how many it holds.
How many other contractors get the same lead?
Capped per trade and borough 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.
See tomorrow's plumbing list before you pay for it.
Start the 7 days and you get real plumbing digests — your trade, your boroughs, owners and managing agents already named — Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Read them, then decide.
Your card goes on file today and is first charged on day 8, so the list keeps arriving on its own. Cancel any time inside the 7 days and you are never charged — one click, no questions.
Your division is already set to plumbing — change it if that is not your work. Currently New York City only.
Ready now? Alert is $199 a month and the first 7 days are free. Your card goes on file when you start and is first charged on day 8 — cancel before then and you are never charged. No contract.