Top 10 Issues Plumbers Face

Being a plumber is not an easy job, but your services are essential. When the toilet is backing up, the basement is flooded or the pipes are frozen, a plumber is suddenly your best friend. Most people don’t think much about their pipes…..until they aren’t working. As plumbers, the problems most people face on rare occasions, you face every day.

Here are the top issues plumbers face:

1. Your boots, clothes, hands and sometimes your face may come in contact other people’s bodily fluids and solids. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it!
2. Let’s face it, when you’re encountering water, you may get soaked. When a hose busts and you’re in its pathway, it’s unavoidable. In your industry, you’ve come to expect the unexpected.
3. You must crawl or climb into tight areas to get the job done, and sometimes may find yourself stuck.
4. Work isn’t always steady. Sometimes you just can’t keep up with the demand and at other times, you’re staring at the phone, willing it to ring. Kickserv’s Mailchimp integration can help eliminate those quiet periods with drip campaigns to stay in touch with your prospects and customers, keeping you top of mind.
5. Licensing is costly – especially in certain states. Working without proper licensing can cost you your business, and possibly your life savings.
6. When a customer doesn’t pay their bill, they leave you in difficult spot. You’ve done the work; you deserve to get paid. Why doesn’t everyone understand this concept? That’s a topic for a different post, but thanks to Kickserv’s credit card payments, you can get paid on the job before you leave the premises. You can even require a deposit for parts.
7. OSHA – ‘nuff said
8. Installing a part that fails after its warranty period ends and the client blames you, because you were the plumber that installed it.
9. Being called back to a job because there’s a small drip or leak on something you’ve installed despite performing extensive tests to ensure everything is working properly before leaving the job.
10. Advising a customer, in hopes that they will hire you, only to be undercut by a cheaper plumber.

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