One plumber in Auckland has 2,900 Google reviews. Another opened in 2023 and already has 581, every one of them four or five stars. A third publishes its hourly rate down to the quarter hour, and a fourth sends you to a hosting error page. We searched “plumbers auckland” on 20 October 2026, took the three plumbers in Google’s map and the eight with the most reviews on Google’s places list, downloaded all 7,118 of their Google reviews and read every price list we could find. Here is what a plumber costs in Auckland, how to check one is licensed, what customers write about, and a close look at each of the 11.
Quick answers
- One hour of a plumber in business hours costs $207 to $264.50 including GST at the three of the top 11 that publish rates. After hours, expect $414 or more.
- The most common answer to Google’s “How much did you pay?” question is $200 to $400; one reviewer in five paid $2,000 or more, usually for a hot water cylinder.
- Most plumbing work is restricted in New Zealand. Ask to see the plumber’s practising licence or check the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board’s public register.
- Plumbquick Auckland has the most Google reviews (2,900) and the most new ones (739 in a year), but answered only 47 of its 607 reviews in 2026.
- Baxter Plumbing, founded in 2023, has 581 reviews and not one below four stars.
Our picks at a glance
- Clearest prices: Auckland Plumbers Group and Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting, both with full rate cards.
- Most reviews and same-day service: Plumbquick Auckland.
- Spotless record: Baxter Plumbing (East Auckland) and Call A Plumber (South Auckland), no review below four stars.
- No call-out fee: Response Plumbing.
- Book a time slot online: Water Works.
In this guide
The top 11 plumbers in Auckland
How we chose them: the three plumbers in Google’s map results for “plumbers auckland”, plus the eight with the most Google reviews on the first page of Google’s places list. Adverts are left out. We counted the Google profile shown on that page; Laser Plumbing is a national network, and its other Auckland branches have profiles of their own.
The first spot in the map was an advert, for Swift Fix Plumbing. Then came Auckland Plumbers Group, Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn and Plumbquick Auckland. Below the map, Plumbquick was first again, followed by MoneyHub’s list of the best plumbers in Auckland, Auckland Plumbers Group, Response Plumbing and Mr Plumber.
“People also ask” started with money: “How much do plumbers charge per hour in Auckland?”, “How much for a plumber for 3 hours?” and “What is the minimum charge for a plumber?”. We answer all three below.
| Plumber | Google rating (reviews) | First Google review | New reviews, last 12 months | Prices on the website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plumbquick Auckland | 4.7 (2,900) | December 2012 | 739 | No |
| Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn | 4.9 (851) | March 2014 | 297 | No |
| Baxter Plumbing | 5.0 (581) | February 2023 | 255 | No |
| Auckland Plumbers Group | 4.8 (528) | January 2015 | 102 | Full rate card |
| Mr Plumber | 4.7 (526) | May 2016 | 82 | Call-out fee and two offers |
| POLITE Plumbers | 4.9 (393) | January 2021 | 45 | Website unavailable when we checked |
| Water Works | 4.8 (343) | June 2015 | 34 | Full rate card |
| Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting | 4.9 (296) | June 2018 | 70 | Full rate card |
| Response Plumbing | 4.7 (271) | May 2017 | 81 | “From” prices, $0 call-out |
| Fairfield Plumbing | 4.8 (222) | October 2015 | 110 | No |
| Call A Plumber | 5.0 (207) | February 2024 | 76 | No |
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What a plumber costs in Auckland
Three of the 11 publish a full rate card: Auckland Plumbers Group, Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting and Water Works. All three quote prices without GST, so we have added it.
| Auckland Plumbers Group | Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting | Water Works | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business hours | $90 call-out, then $35 per quarter hour; minimum $125 | $120 an hour plus $60 admin, vehicle and sundries; minimum 1 hour | $195 first hour, plus $15 health and safety and $20 fuel; then $125 an hour |
| After hours | $180 call-out, then $105 per half hour; minimum $285 | Extra $180 | $490 for the first 3 hours, plus $20 fuel; then $190 an hour |
| Public holidays | $270 call-out, then $140 per half hour; minimum $410 | Extra $360 | $715 for 3 hours |
| Other charges | $40 for each extra visit; drain jetting $200; CCTV $100; parts extra | Gas safety certificate $30; travel time charged; parts extra | $50 for each extra visit; parts extra |
| One hour, business hours, incl. GST | $264.50 | $207 | $264.50 |
Two more publish part of the picture. Mr Plumber advertises a standard call-out of $59.99 plus GST and a hot water assessment for $64.99 plus GST, with labour on top. Response Plumbing charges no call-out fee and lists jobs “from $249”, such as a blocked drain or a leaking tap, and a hot water cylinder “from $2,957”.
What did people actually pay? 285 reviewers of the top 11 answered Google’s “How much did you pay?” question:
The most common answer was $200 to $400, the kind of bill you get for a tap, a toilet or a small leak. The middle answer falls in the $400 to $600 band. The spike at $2,000 and over is almost all hot water cylinders and bigger repairs: one review in five that gave a price was in that band. And 212 of the 314 reviewers who rated the price called it “reasonable”; 5 said “overpriced”.
From the invoice desk
A plumber’s quote has three numbers on it: the call-out fee, the hourly rate, and the look on his face when he opens the cupboard under your sink.
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Rates from each plumber’s published pricing page, viewed 20 October 2026, all excluding GST: Auckland Plumbers Group (effective 1 May 2026), Matthews (effective 1 August 2026) and Water Works. Time is rounded up the way each schedule describes. Water Works does not say how it charges a public holiday job beyond three hours, so the calculator uses its after-hours rate for that. A real bill also depends on travel, extra visits and equipment.
How the calculator works
Each plumber’s fees and labour follow its own pricing page. Auckland Plumbers Group: call-out plus labour, rounded up to the quarter hour in business hours and to the half hour after hours. Matthews: one hour minimum, then 15-minute blocks, plus the $60 admin and vehicle charge and the after-hours or holiday surcharge. Water Works: a first-hour (or first three hours after hours) package plus health and safety and fuel, then its hourly rate. GST at 15% is added to everything, parts included. Travel time, extra visits, equipment and waste removal are not included.
Run a plumbing business? Our free Quote and Job Organiser app does this sum on the job, with your own rates and GST, and turns it into a PDF quote. We can also brand it and add the features you need. More at the end of this guide.
Check the licence before work starts
Most plumbing is restricted work
Most sanitary plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying in New Zealand is restricted work: it has to be done, or supervised, by someone authorised by the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board (PGDB). Master Plumbers advises homeowners to ask to see the tradesperson’s practising licence card, check its expiry date and that its class covers the job, and to search the PGDB’s online public register. Work by someone without a licence can void your insurance.
Several of the 11 say plainly that their staff are PGDB-registered: Auckland Plumbers Group, Response Plumbing and POLITE Plumbers, among others. Others mention Master Plumbers membership, which comes with the Master Plumbers Guarantee on eligible work.
What 7,118 Google reviews tell you
We collected every public Google review of the 11 plumbers: 7,118 in total, 6,499 with text. Plumbquick alone accounts for 2,900 of them.
Plumbquick collected 739 new reviews in a year, two a day. Laser Grey Lynn and Baxter follow with 297 and 255. At the other end, Water Works added 34 and POLITE Plumbers 45, after 156 the year before.
The newcomers are the story. Baxter Plumbing’s first review was in February 2023; this year it has collected 228 so far, more than any plumber here except Plumbquick and Laser. Call A Plumber started in February 2024 and has 207, all five stars. Neither publishes a single price, and neither seems to need to: their reviews do the selling.
Six plumbers answered nine in ten reviews or more last year. Plumbquick, with the most reviews, went the other way: it replied to 483 of its 668 reviews in 2025 and to 47 of 607 so far in 2026. Mr Plumber answered one review in all of 2023 and one in 2024. Laser Grey Lynn answers about a third.
Speed beats everything. More than half the written reviews mention it: same day, within an hour, quick, efficient. Friendliness and punctuality come next. Price comes fifth, but it is the theme that sinks ratings.
Only 350 of the 7,118 reviews give three stars or fewer, and 167 of those mention the price or the bill. Late arrivals and no-shows come second, then repairs that didn’t hold. Plumbquick, Response Plumbing and Mr Plumber have the highest share of low ratings, around 7% each.
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Eight checks, 0 to 2 points each, 16 in total. They measure how easy it is to find, trust and book a plumber online, not how well they fix a leak.
| Plumber | Title and heading | Prices | Booking | Rating | New reviews | Replies | Guarantee | Housekeeping | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland Plumbers Group | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 |
| Water Works | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 |
| Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Fairfield Plumbing | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Response Plumbing | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Plumbquick Auckland | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Baxter Plumbing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Mr Plumber | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Call A Plumber | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| POLITE Plumbers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
How we score
- Title and heading: 2 if the home page title and main heading both name plumbing and Auckland (or the suburb served), 1 if one of them does, 0 if neither or the site is unavailable.
- Prices: 2 for a published rate card, 1 for a call-out fee, “from” prices or offers, 0 for none.
- Booking: 2 for online booking with time slots, 1 for a quote or contact form or email, 0 for none.
- Rating: 2 for 4.8 or higher on Google, 1 for 4.5 to 4.7, 0 below 4.5.
- New reviews: 2 for 100 or more in the last 12 months, 1 for 40 to 99, 0 below 40.
- Replies: 2 if 90% or more of last year’s reviews have an owner reply, 1 for 50% to 89%, 0 below 50%.
- Guarantee: 2 for a written guarantee with a term (12 months, 5 years, lifetime labour), 1 for a general promise, a product warranty or a guarantee shown only as an image, 0 for none found.
- Housekeeping: 2 if names, numbers and claims agree across the website and Google, 1 for small slips (old footer year, placeholder text, out-of-date review counts, typos), 0 for a different phone number from Google’s, several conflicting numbers, or a site that doesn’t load.
The 11 plumbers in detail
In order of Google reviews. None of them are our clients. This is a public snapshot from 20 October 2026, written in good faith, and a website score says nothing about the quality of anyone’s plumbing.
1. Plumbquick Auckland (9/16): the giant that stopped replying
Best for: same-day jobs anywhere in Auckland, with a big team behind them.
- 2,900 Google reviews since December 2012; 739 in the last 12 months
- “Celebrating 25 years”; online booking
- Lifetime labour warranty and an on-time guarantee
- Replied to 47 of its 607 reviews in 2026, after 483 of 668 in 2025
No plumber in Auckland comes close to Plumbquick on volume. The team photo on its home page shows why: dozens of plumbers and vans, and GPS to send the nearest one. Customers write about speed more than anything else, and the lifetime labour warranty is the strongest promise in this guide.
Two things stand out. The phone number on the website, 0508 758 643, is not the one on Google, 0800 758 653. And replies to reviews have almost stopped this year, at a business with 205 reviews of three stars or fewer, where the bill is the most common complaint. The home page also carries a footnote about a “DRAINSAVE” drain offer without saying what the offer is.
What we would change:
- One phone number on Google and the website.
- Restart replies, starting with this year’s low reviews.
- Publish the call-out fee and hourly rate; price is what unhappy customers write about.
2. Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn (9/16): a strong brand with a guarantee you can’t read
Best for: central suburbs, gas leaks and after-hours emergencies.
- 851 Google reviews; 297 in the last 12 months
- Part of the national Laser network
- 24/7 emergency service across Auckland
- Replied to 38% of last year’s reviews
Laser Grey Lynn’s reviews read like a fan club: customers name Fraser, Nick, Matt and Jordan, and several say Laser is their go-to plumber. Its reviews grew from 55 in 2023 to 270 in 2025, so someone is asking every customer.
The website gives Google little to work with. The page title, “Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn | Totally Dependable”, never says plumber or Auckland, there are no prices, and the guarantee is a picture of text, which search engines can’t read. The Facebook link goes to a page called “OsbornePlumbing”. The review badge says 841; Google says 851.
Where we would start:
- Write the guarantee out in words, with its terms.
- A page title such as “Plumber Grey Lynn and Central Auckland | Laser Plumbing”.
- Answer every review; with 300 a year that is one a day.
3. Baxter Plumbing (9/16): 581 reviews in under four years, none below four stars
Best for: East Auckland homes: leaks, hot water and watermains.
- Established 2023; first Google review February 2023
- 581 reviews, not one rated three stars or lower
- Answered 97% of last year’s reviews
- Led by Ryan Baxter; plumbing, drainage, spouting, roofing
Baxter’s Google profile is the best in this guide: a perfect record, a reply under almost every review and 228 new reviews this year alone. Leaks are the job customers mention most, and communication comes up in almost a third of the reviews.
The website hasn’t kept up. Its tap-to-call link is written as +210393199, without New Zealand’s country code, so tapping it on a phone is unlikely to connect. The main heading is empty, the footer says © 2025, the contact address is a Gmail one, and there are no prices and no guarantee.
Three quick fixes:
- Fix the tap-to-call link to +64 21 039 3199.
- State a workmanship guarantee and its length.
- Put a few of the 581 reviews and some prices on the website.
4. Auckland Plumbers Group (13/16): the most complete website in the guide
Best for: anyone who wants the rate before they ring.
- A full rate card: business hours, after hours, public holidays, equipment, waste
- 12-month Master Plumbers Guarantee on eligible work
- PGDB-registered staff, police checks, GPS in every van
- Answered every review from the last 12 months
This is how a plumbing website should answer the customer’s first question. The pricing page even explains how time is counted (from arrival to departure, GPS-tracked) and what happens with parts. Add the guarantee, the police checks and fully installed prices for hot water, and very little is left to guess.
One thing undermines it: the website’s number, 0800 520 400, differs from the one on Google, 0800 520 620. If both work, say so; if not, a customer is calling a dead line.
What would help most:
- Use one number on Google and the website.
- Show the business-hours rate including GST, as most homeowners compare that way.
- Keep the reply habit: reviews have been 4.9 on average this year.
5. Mr Plumber (9/16): since 1980, and a $59.99 call-out
Best for: a low call-out fee in central Auckland.
- “Auckland’s trusted 24/7 plumbers since 1980”
- Call-out $59.99 + GST; hot water assessment $64.99 + GST
- Promise: done right first time, on time or a call ahead, tidy up
- Answered 1 review in 2023 and 1 in 2024
Mr Plumber’s offers are clear and cheap to try, and the four-part promise is easy to remember. The links on its Google profile are tagged, so it knows how many visitors Google sends.
Reviews are the weak spot. It has 36 reviews of three stars or fewer, 23 of them about price, and for three years almost none got a reply. Replies have restarted in 2025, but slowly: 20 of 69 this year.
If we were fixing it:
- Answer every low review about price with what the job involved.
- Publish the hourly rate next to the $59.99 call-out.
- Ask happy customers for reviews; the 4.7 average has room to grow.
6. POLITE Plumbers (5/16): great reviews, and a website that wouldn’t load
Best for: hard to say this year; check that the business is taking bookings.
- 393 Google reviews since January 2021
- 138 reviews in 2024 and 156 in 2025, then 17 so far in 2026
- Answered 91% of all its reviews
- Website showed a hosting error page on 20 October 2026
POLITE’s customers liked what the name promised: friendliness is mentioned in about half of its written reviews, more than at any other plumber here. In 2024 and 2025 it was one of the busiest profiles in this guide.
In 2026 reviews have nearly stopped, and when we opened the website twice on 20 October it showed a “Website Unavailable” page from its hosting company. Another tool loaded an older copy of the site that offers to beat a reputable quote by 5%. That may be a temporary fault, but a plumber’s website is often the first place a customer checks at midnight.
What would help most:
- Get the website back online, then check the domain settings with the host.
- Tell Google if hours or services have changed.
- Ask recent customers for reviews again.
7. Water Works (12/16): online booking, full prices and four phone numbers
Best for: booking a three-hour time slot online.
- Online booking with time slots, $15 off
- Full rate card, business hours and after hours
- 1-year workmanship guarantee; “30+ years of expertise”
- Answered every review from the last 12 months
Water Works lets you pick a morning, midday or afternoon slot and saves you $15 for doing it, which no other plumber here offers. Its rate card is complete, and its answer about quotes is honest: installation quotes are free, fault-finding is charged.
Its phone numbers don’t agree. Google says 09 884 4601, the home page uses 09 884 4661 (with 09 884 4601 also in the code), and the pricing page shows 09 846 4458 and 0800 448 372. The same page lists a “Healthy & Safety” charge. Reviews have also slowed: 101 in 2024, 47 in 2025, 22 this year.
Our list for Water Works:
- One phone number, everywhere.
- Restart review requests after every booked job.
- Say whether the $15 discount applies to after-hours jobs too.
8. Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting (11/16): honest rates and a gas specialist
Best for: gasfitting and straightforward pricing.
- $120 an hour for plumbing, $140 for gasfitting, plus $60 admin and vehicle
- Only 3 reviews of three stars or fewer
- Answered 295 of 296 reviews
- Master Plumbers member
Matthews has the lowest first-hour price of the three plumbers with rate cards, $207 including GST, and explains what the $60 charge covers, down to tap grease and tape. It is refreshingly frank about quotes: it won’t quote maintenance work, “as we dont know what we can’t see”. Gas comes up in its reviews more than at any other plumber here.
Its home page still contains placeholder text, “This is a heading.” and “This is a basic text element.”, and the main heading says “Auckland wide | 24/7 service” without the word plumber. The guarantee is only a link to the Master Plumbers page.
Next steps we’d suggest:
- Remove the placeholder text.
- A main heading such as “Plumbers and gasfitters in Auckland, 24/7”.
- Explain the Master Plumbers Guarantee on the site in two lines.
9. Response Plumbing (10/16): no call-out fee and a five-year warranty
Best for: small jobs where a call-out fee would hurt.
- $0 call-out fee; jobs “from $249”
- 5-year warranty on workmanship; $5 million insured
- Founded in 2014 by Michael and Matthew Meek
- “Under 1 hour” response, under 30 minutes on the North Shore
Response has the most aggressive offer in this guide: no call-out fee, fixed prices before work starts and the longest warranty after Plumbquick’s. The family story and the team photo, dog included, make it feel local.
The site claims “4.8 · 260+ reviews” where Google shows 4.7 from 271, and “Rated #1 on MoneyHub NZ” for a list MoneyHub calls the best plumbers in Auckland. It has 19 low reviews, 7% of the total, mostly about late arrivals and price.
Where we would start:
- Show the live Google rating.
- Say whether “from $249” includes GST.
- Reply to every review; 9 of last year’s 81 are unanswered.
10. Fairfield Plumbing (11/16): the fastest climber of 2026
Best for: a fixed price agreed before the work starts.
- 7 reviews in 2024, 54 in 2025, 93 so far in 2026
- Answered 99% of last year’s reviews
- A 9-point guarantee; Master Plumbers member
- Online booking
Fairfield has turned on its review engine: 110 new reviews in a year, more than all but three plumbers here. Its 9-point guarantee is written out in plain words, and customers mention price more often than at most plumbers.
It promises “upfront fixed pricing” but publishes no prices. The home page has no main heading at all, and one paragraph refers to “licensed trademsmen”.
Three quick fixes:
- Add a main heading with “plumber” and “Auckland”.
- Publish example fixed prices: a tap, a toilet, a cylinder.
- Fix the typo.
11. Call A Plumber (9/16): 207 five-star reviews in 20 months
Best for: hidden leaks in South Auckland.
- First Google review February 2024; every review five stars
- Thermal imaging leak detection with insurance-ready reports
- Answered 92% of last year’s reviews
- 24/7 emergency call-outs
Call A Plumber has done in 20 months what most plumbers never do: a perfect five-star record over 207 reviews. Leak detection is its specialty, and leaks come up in a quarter of its reviews.
The website says “170+ 5-star verified reviews” and “Auckland’s #1 plumbing specialists”, uses the American spelling “prioritizing”, and has no prices. Its main heading, “Professional Plumbing Services”, doesn’t say where.
Our list for Call A Plumber:
- Update the review count, or show the live badge.
- A heading such as “Plumbers in South Auckland”.
- Publish a leak detection starting price; insurers and homeowners both ask.
Marketing ideas for plumbers
Taken from what 6,499 written reviews praise and complain about, and from what the busiest plumbers here do.
- Answer the phone, or text back fast. Speed is mentioned in more than half of all reviews. A missed call at 7 am is a job for the next plumber on Google.
- Publish the call-out fee and hourly rate. Price is the biggest complaint in low reviews, and Google’s top questions are all about cost. The three plumbers with rate cards make the bill a non-event.
- Use one phone number. Three of the 11 show a different number on Google from the one on their website. Pick one and use it everywhere.
- Ask every customer for a review, and reply to every one. Baxter and Call A Plumber built near-perfect profiles in under four years with that habit alone.
- Name the plumber on the booking text. Customers who know “Fraser is coming at 2” write about Fraser afterwards.
- Say “licensed” the way the law does. PGDB registration and a practising licence are what customers can check; put them on every page.
- Write your guarantee in words. A guarantee in an image or a link to someone else’s page does nothing for search or for a nervous homeowner.
Overheard on a Remuera phone line
“Can you come now? It’s an emergency.” “What’s leaking?” “The tap.” “How fast?” “One drip a minute.” “Madam, that’s not an emergency. That’s a metronome.”
Ideas 1, 2 and 5 are where our Quote and Job Organiser app helps: the quote with your rates on the spot, ETA messages with your name on them, and every job with its photos and notes.
For plumbers: missed calls and your own app
Put your own numbers in:
Plumbers: what do missed calls cost you?
Half the reviews in this guide praise speed. When a customer with a burst pipe can’t get through, they ring the next plumber. Put in your own numbers.
Defaults are an example, not one company’s figures. $450 sits inside the $400 to $600 band that holds the middle answer to Google’s “How much did you pay?” question in reviews of the top 11. Income before costs and GST, over 52 weeks.
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- Accepted quote becomes a job automatically, with the customer and price carried over.
- Site photos and private notes on each job, ETA and running-late messages, and a calendar showing the month’s work and what has been paid.
The free version is the starting point. Many plumbers want it to be theirs: your logo and colours on the app and the PDF, the features your business needs (a missed-call text, a job sheet for the apprentice, a gas certificate checklist, your own price book), or an idea you’ve had for years that no app does. SEO4 builds custom versions, and they cost far less than most plumbers expect. Tell us what you need and we’ll send you a price.
Common questions
At the three of Auckland’s top plumbers that published rate cards in October 2026, one hour in business hours cost $207 to $264.50 including GST: Matthews charges $120 an hour plus $60 for admin and vehicle, Auckland Plumbers Group $90 call-out plus $35 per quarter hour, and Water Works $195 for the first hour plus $35 in fees (all before GST). After hours, the first hour cost $414 or more.
Auckland Plumbers Group’s minimum in business hours is $125 plus GST (call-out and 15 minutes of labour). Matthews charges a minimum of one hour plus its $60 admin and vehicle charge, $180 plus GST. Mr Plumber advertises a $59.99 plus GST call-out, and Response Plumbing charges no call-out fee. After-hours minimums are much higher.
On the published rates, three hours in business hours cost $483 to $586.50 including GST before parts: $483 at Matthews, $552 at Water Works and $586.50 at Auckland Plumbers Group. After hours, Water Works sells a 3-hour block for $510 plus GST ($586.50 including GST).
Most plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying is restricted work. Ask to see the tradesperson’s practising licence card, check its expiry date and that its class covers your job, and search the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board’s public register online.
On 20 October 2026, Plumbquick Auckland had 2,900, Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn 851, Baxter Plumbing 581, Auckland Plumbers Group 528, Mr Plumber 526 and POLITE Plumbers 393. Baxter Plumbing and Call A Plumber had no reviews below four stars.
Sources and how we checked
- Google search, the first page of Google’s places list for “plumbers auckland”, and Google searches for each plumber by name, viewed 20 October 2026 from New Zealand. Results depend on where you search from.
- Google reviews: SEO4 collected every public Google review of the 11 plumbers’ profiles (7,118 reviews) on 20 October 2026, with date, stars, owner reply and, where reviewers gave them, Google’s price answers. Themes are keyword matches in the 6,499 reviews with text; one review can match several themes.
- Licensing: Master Plumbers, proper plumber or cowboy? and the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board.
- Rates: Auckland Plumbers Group pricing schedule, Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting pricing, Water Works pricing, viewed 20 October 2026.
- Websites: Plumbquick, Laser Plumbing Grey Lynn, Baxter Plumbing, Auckland Plumbers Group, Mr Plumber, POLITE Plumbers, Water Works, Matthews Plumbing & Gasfitting, Response Plumbing, Fairfield Plumbing and Call A Plumber, all viewed 20 October 2026.
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