Heating leads in Kerry, where the plant has to work by Easter.
Kerry runs on tourism, and tourism runs on hot water. Hotels, guesthouses, B&Bs and restaurants all need plant that works from Easter through September, and none of them can afford it failing in August.
That is a commercial plumbing market with a hard annual deadline, and it sits alongside an ordinary domestic trade in a county with no mains gas and a lot of houses nobody is in for eight months.
Hospitality plant is a different business
Commercial hot water, large cylinders, pumped systems and kitchen plant are not a domestic callout with bigger pipes. The stakes are different too — a guesthouse without hot water in July is losing money by the hour.
Operators know this and will pay for a plumber who understands it, answers in season and has done their kind of building before. Very few plumbers in this county market to them at all, and the ones who do tend to get the work for years.
Sell the pre-season service, not the emergency
The whole commercial calendar points at one moment: everything must be right before the season starts. A February and March campaign offering pre-season servicing reaches operators exactly when that is on their mind.
It is also far better work than an August emergency — planned, scheduled, priced properly and done when you are not already stretched. Almost nobody advertises into that window.
No gas, and a lot of oil
Kerry has no mains gas network, so it is oil, LPG, solid fuel and heat pumps, domestic and commercial alike.
Say which you work on. It is the first thing anyone is checking and a site that leads with gas credentials reads as though it belongs to another county.
Empty houses and distance
Holiday property sits unheated for most of the year and is found leaking in spring by an owner arriving from elsewhere. Winter checks and drain-downs for remote owners are real, well-paid work arranged by people who cannot shop around locally.
The distances are real as well. Tralee to Cahersiveen is not a callout, it is a day, and the Ring roads are slow in both seasons. Name what you cover.
Built around where you actually travel.
- Tralee
- Killarney
- Kenmare
- Dingle
- Listowel
- Killorglin
- Castleisland
- Cahersiveen
- Ballybunion
- Sneem
- Milltown
- Waterville
Questions from Kerry plumbers
It is the distinctive opportunity here. Commercial hot water and kitchen plant with a hard seasonal deadline, operators who pay for competence, and almost no plumber marketing to them.
February and March, for pre-season servicing. Planned work priced properly beats an August emergency when you are already stretched.
No network. Oil, LPG, solid fuel and heat pumps, commercial and domestic alike, so say which you work on.
A flat monthly fee with everything included, or a second tier with the other channel and a new website. Month to month, no setup fee, and ad spend goes directly to the platforms from your own account. Ask on a call and we will give you the numbers.