Plumbers

Plumbers: what UK insurers print as a starting price

Name: Insurance by Profession UK Business Insurance Starting-Price Record: Plumbers
Creator: Insurance by Profession
Published: 2026-09-11
License: https://insurancebyprofession.com/terms

Plumbing claims are water claims, and a leak in a block of flats is a multi property loss. The insurers below publish starting prices for trade liability cover; gas work changes both the rating and the wording.

median printed starting price: £5.31
printed starting prices, lowest to highest: £5 to £5.64
insurers listed for Plumbers: 10

Printed starting prices for Plumbers

Insurer	From, per month	Guide	Source	Checked
Markel Direct	£5/month	What this trade needs	markeluk.com	September 2026
Hiscox UK	£5.2/month	What this trade needs	hiscox.co.uk	September 2026
Rhino Trade Insurance	£5.21/month	What this trade needs	rhinotradeinsurance.com	September 2026
Simply Business	£5.4/month	What this trade needs	simplybusiness.co.uk	September 2026
Suited	£5.51/month	What this trade needs	suited.insure	September 2026
Clear Business	£5.64/month	What this trade needs	clearbusiness.co.uk	September 2026
Admiral Business		What this trade needs
constructaquote		What this trade needs
Direct Line for Business		What this trade needs
Tradesman Saver		What this trade needs

An insurer is listed for this trade only where its own live page for the trade answered on the day of the read. The price beside it is the lowest monthly starting price that insurer prints anywhere this record reads it, quoted in its own words, which is not necessarily a price for this trade and is never a quote for your business.

Plumbing trade specifics

The hot works condition governs soldering and torch use and is a condition precedent on many wordings.

Gas work must be declared and the engineer Gas Safe registered, or the exposure is uninsured.

Damage to underground services is limited or excluded on some trade policies.

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The published starting price for business liability cover in Plumbers was £5.31 in read September 2026, across 6 insurers and schemes recorded in Insurance by Profession UK Business Insurance Starting-Price Record.

Cite as: "Insurance by Profession UK Business Insurance Starting-Price Record: Plumbers", updated 2026-09-11, https://insurancebyprofession.com/trades/plumbers/.

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published starting price for business liability cover · Plumbers · read September 2026

£5.31

Middle 50%	£5 – £5.64
insurers and schemes	6

Source: Insurance by Profession UK Business Insurance Starting-Price Record

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Source: GB business-insurance starting prices verified against each insurer's own published pages on 2026-09-11 by infra/ingest/hubs/insurancebyprofession.com/ingest_vendors.py: every quoted figure re-fetched and matched verbatim (hash-pinned). 8 of 17 insurers print a monthly starting price; 7 (tradesmansaver, abtinsurance, salongold, directlineforbusiness, admiralbusiness, constructaquote, craftcover) print none and are listed with that fact.

All 21 source pages; each is the insurer's own published page, quoted verbatim with retrieval date

Methodology: Every rendered figure is a price the insurer prints on its OWN page, re-fetched and matched verbatim (the quote and its retrieval date travel with the cell), then hash-pinned. An insurer that prints no starting price is listed WITH that fact and the reason its page gives none - never with an estimate, and never with a figure lifted from a worked example. The monthly cell is the LOWEST monthly starting price the insurer prints on any of its own pages read here, because several of them price per trade rather than per cover; the quote beside the figure says which cover it is for. Monthly and annual prices are shown on the basis each page prints them and no equivalent is computed, so the median is taken over the monthly column alone. A printed starting price is the cheapest premium an insurer will advertise, on a stated level of cover and the lowest-risk case it will write; it is not a quote.

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