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The AI phone receptionist for plumbers.
Your hands are inside a boiler and the phone is ringing. Ringmere answers it, books the jobs you can price in advance, and sends you everything else with the address and access details.
Hear it first: ring our own AI receptionist on 07888 870150, or try it in your browser.
The missed-call problem
Sound familiar?
- Calls that ring out while you are under a sink or up a ladder
- Emergency calls in the evening that go to a competitor instead
- A missed boiler install worth more than a year of this
Every one of those is a booking walking to a competitor. Ringmere answers before it does.
How Ringmere helps plumbers
Answer, book, and hand you the rest.
Answers your calls, 24/7
First-ring pickup, evenings and weekends included, so callers get a real answer instead of voicemail.
Books into your calendar
Checks live availability and books the right service into the right diary, with no double-booking.
Escalates what matters
Urgent, clinical or unhappy callers go to your team immediately, with full context.
It answers messages too: on Growth and Pro, customers can WhatsApp or text your business and the same receptionist replies, books and takes orders, and it drafts a reply to every customer email for you to send.
Ringmere also answers the phone for heating & gas engineers, electricians and appliance repair engineers.
Quoting for the job? Switch on quote reminders and, when a caller asked for a quote or a price and their message is still open a couple of days later, Ringmere reminds you by text, email or WhatsApp, so the job does not go cold. It reminds you, never the customer. On every plan.
Call by call
Every call a plumber gets.
A plumber’s phone rings loudest when you are under a floor with the water off, or driving between jobs. Some of those calls are a booking you can price today; some are a leak nobody has seen. This is what Ringmere does with each.
| The call | What Ringmere does |
|---|---|
| A dripping tap, a running toilet or a new outside tap | Booked into a real slot at the price and duration you set, with the address, postcode and how to get in saved with the job. |
| Water coming through a ceiling at 10pm | Takes the address and what is happening, marks it urgent and texts you straight away, so you decide whether to go out tonight. It gives no advice on what to do with the water. |
| No heating or no hot water | Captured as a job with the address, access details and anything the caller can tell you, such as the boiler make, and sent to you. It never guesses at the fault. |
| “I can smell gas” | No safety advice of its own. Ringmere is told to escalate emergencies to you straight away; add the National Gas Emergency number (0800 111 999) to your approved answers so it can give it, and test that with a call. |
| A quote for a bathroom refit or a new boiler | Taken as an enquiry with what the caller wants and where, or booked as a survey visit if you list one. It never prices work nobody has seen. |
| “What do you charge for a callout?” and “do you cover my area?” | Answered from the prices and areas you approve. Anything else is passed to you as a message. |
| Calls while you are on a job | Forward your mobile on no answer and your phone still rings first; Ringmere picks up the calls you cannot. |
An example call
Written to show how a call goes, using sample services and prices; not a recording.
Caller: Hi, the kitchen tap in a flat I let out has started dripping. Could someone replace it this week?
Ringmere: I can book that. Replacing a kitchen tap is £95 and takes about an hour, with the tap itself extra. I have Tuesday at 8am or Thursday at 1pm. Which suits your tenant?
Caller: Thursday at one. The tenant’s Mark, he’ll be in.
Ringmere: Thanks. What’s the address, including the postcode, and a number for Mark?
Caller: Flat 2, 14 Mill Lane, BS3 4PQ. Mark is on 07700 900123. I’m Helen Price.
Ringmere: Thanks, Helen. That’s booked: kitchen tap replacement on Thursday at 1pm at Flat 2, 14 Mill Lane, with Mark’s number on the job.
Your services, your words
It only ever offers what you approve.
Import your services and prices in seconds, from your website or from a PDF, spreadsheet or photo of your price list. Ringmere quotes exactly what you configure, never a made-up price or a promise you can’t keep.
Questions from plumbers
Good to know.
Does it book jobs into a diary?
Can it quote a price for a callout?
What about emergencies at 11pm?
I am on site all day. Does it work with a mobile?
What about gas and boiler work?
What does an AI receptionist cost for a plumber?
What should it never do?
Is Ringmere an answering service for plumbers?
What Ringmere does on any UK phone line, what it costs and how it compares with the other UK AI receptionists is on one page: AI receptionist UK.
Guides for plumbers
Practical reads for your business.
What missed calls really cost a UK plumbing business
Nobody with a leak leaves a voicemail. They ring the next plumber. Here is what that adds up to over a year.
Read moreHow to follow up a quote without being pushy
Most quotes that go quiet were not turned down. The customer got busy. A polite, well-timed follow-up wins a surprising share of them back.
Read moreGet missed call alerts on WhatsApp
You check WhatsApp all day and your voicemail almost never. Here is how to get the calls that need you onto the app you already read.
Read moreStop losing plumber bookings.
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