Best stickers for plumbers

Plumbing is an emergency trade a good share of the time, and emergencies are won by whoever is findable in the next ten minutes. Everything below follows from that.

The van decal: 200 mm minimum

On a van panel, anything under 200 mm is decoration. The phone number needs to be readable from a car length back, which in practice means the number is the largest element after the business name.

If you take after-hours work, reflective vinyl is the one upgrade genuinely worth its multiplier. A van parked on an unlit street at 11pm either reads as a working business or as an unmarked vehicle, and reflective is the difference.

The hot water unit sticker: 100 mm, ordered in bulk

Every hot water unit you install is a ten-year advertisement in someone's laundry or side passage. So is every meter box, every pump, and every backflow device. A small sticker on each one puts your number in front of the person who has the problem, at the moment they have it.

This is the clearest case on the whole site for the 250 quantity break. At that volume the per-sticker price drops far enough that leaving one at every job stops being a decision you make each time.

Put the licence number on

Plumbing licence and registration numbers are a trust signal that costs you a single line of text. Requirements for how they are displayed vary by state, so confirm the current rules with your state regulator before committing to a large print run — but on the vehicle, visible, is the right instinct.

Words that actually get calls

• 0124/7 EMERGENCY — only if you truly answer at 2am
• 02BLOCKED DRAINS — the highest-intent plumbing phrase there is
• 03HOT WATER — a whole category of urgent, well-paid work
• 04GAS FITTING — if you hold the ticket, say so
• 05FREE QUOTES — still works, still the reason people ring first

What to skip

A list of eight services. A tagline about quality. Anything that makes the phone number smaller.