Transform your future by joining Metro Plumb
Being part of a franchise gives you the best of both worlds. It allows you to build a business that is yours, whilst having the security of regular payments and support with all the other things they don’t teach you at plumbing college!
Do you need help with marketing? Managing your website? Where do you find more customers? Baffled by social media? Perhaps you need an extra pair of hands sometimes to answer the phone. Metro Plumb offers the answers to all of these and so much more.
If you like the sound of this so far, please get in touch as we would be delighted to tell you more about all the other things we provide to support the growth of you and your business.
You will need to be NVQ Level 2 qualified or above in plumbing or have practical experience that we can evaluate. Another great way is to partner with a plumber.
Maybe the dream is to one day come off the tools and manage a team. With a Metro Plumb franchise, we help you do all of this.
About Metro Plumb
Metro Plumb was founded in 2016 and is a division of Metro Rod. Through their long-standing history, we are able to help you reach both commercial and domestic customers. Our plumbers are more in demand than ever before, providing, emergency reactive services, planned maintenance and new installations.
Metro Plumb customers range from large well known brands to local home owners, everyone deserves high quality work, from friendly trustworthy well trained individuals.
Available Franchise Territories
We have newly available territories in the following areas:
- Glasgow
- Edinburgh
- Wales
- Derby
- Northampton
- Cambridge
- Cornwall
- Oxford
- Coventry
Benefits of being a Metro Plumb franchisee
- You will have your own exclusive area where you will be the only Metro Plumber. You will have a launch plan to get you ready to start trading.
- You will be provided your own branded uniform and starter kit.
- Become part of a well-respected and recognised brand with a history of satisfied customers.
- Sales and marketing support – website, advertising and a full brand pack of materials plus our Metro Plumb’s support centre team assist franchisees in new business generation through their dedicated national accounts team.
- Access to trade discounts, trade billing accounts and fuel cards.
- Invoicing and credit control function.
- In-house call centre team working 24/7 365 days a year processing enquiries.
- Approximately 80% of the services are provided on a reactive basis. With a local franchisee in each area, you will be able to grow your customer base and benefit from local relationships. This will enable you to organise pre-planned maintenance contracts and longer-term support programs to service your own local portfolio of customers.
- Low-cost entry fee, starting at just £17k. Help available to spread the cost.
- Unlimited earning potential.
- Plumbing has remained resilient against recession. Our emergency repair services, and regular maintenance contracts have kept Metro Plumb franchisees busy, regardless of the state of the economy.
- We have been members of the British Franchising Association (BFA) since 1997 and have won several national awards with them.
- Metro Plumb is a member of the plumbing and heating association.
If you would like to become a part of the Metro Plumb brand, please get in touch via the form below.
Have you heard about one of the UK’s fastest growing franchises?
Want to know how we did it?
Great people!
We have an amazing network of professional plumbers that not only care about the customer, but want to do an upstanding job and grow their own business.
The first business owners trailblazed the way, and despite covid, have grown their businesses at an unbelievable rate.
We now operate in over 35 locations across the UK, which has enabled us to secure some fantastic nationwide customers and provide consistent work for all.
With the jobs quite literally flowing through, these owner operators have expanded their teams and added to the fleet within a year of purchase.
With 50% of homeowners struggling to find tradespeople, plumbing is in high demand. With many seeking energy efficient options, water saving solutions or solutions to improve their homes to cope with the new way of working, our plumbers have a bright future ahead of them.
The great advantage of buying a Metro Plumb franchise now is that you benefit from the low fresh area entry rate, along with a great launch package. We can even help with van finance.
Mark from Sutton Coldfield trained as a plumber in his spare time and used Metro Plumb to get his business off the ground, which he has done at lightning speed. Commenting on his success he said; ‘I’m earning more now, than I ever thought was possible.’
Gary, a gas trained plumber from Kent, now on his third area purchase in as many years with a team of 6 plumbers and 2 people in the office said; ‘I’m exactly where I wanted to be, the wheels started turning from day one and with a large number of national accounts, I knew buying a Metro Plumb would make a great partnership.’
Philip, owner of 3 Metro Plumb areas in the Northeast. noted, ‘the Working Together is Stronger philosophy radiates throughout every layer of Metro Plumb’. Philip is a military trained professional with experience from another franchise.
Speak to any of our business owners, Michael in South Manchester, Luke in Taunton, Shane in Southampton, Riaz in London, Michael in Lancashire, Michael in Bristol … they're proud of their business and happy to share their experience.
Our numbers are growing fast!
Join the team and become the Nation's Local Plumber in your area.
*There are two areas left in Scotland. If we can fill these we will have the area covered which is great for National Account appeal for our commercial customers as we will have complete coverage to support all with plumbing needs.
I contacted Metro Rod after researching the company thoroughly. The organisation was a very attractive option as the support seemed fantastic, and more importantly, the organisation clearly stood out for the partnership they clearly wanted from an incoming franchisee, and not a relationship that revolved around a top-down methodology. I was introduced to Tracey immediately and from the outset, she was amazing. We worked together to ensure the territory that I wanted to purchase was correct and worked very closely on ensuring the business plan I was to deploy was achievable. Despite working through a tough climate which was restricted due to COVID 19, the sale of the business went through seamlessly, and we as a business have hit the ground running. Tracey has continued to work closely with our business and is consistently checking in and offering advice. A true testament to the organisation and the Working Together is Stronger philosophy that radiates throughout every layer of Metro Plumb. I cannot commend Tracey and her peers enough and will continue to work together to ensure our partnership is successful.
I would like to say that the period that Tracey arrange meetings and also my induction was excellent in fact the reason I went forward with the franchise was the replay to my questions, also I was never pushed into anything or pressured to do things I didn't want to do, in fact the move over was very impressive and made my welcome into the franchise easier, and it was also nice to know that if I needed someone Tracey was always there to advise or put me in touch with the right person. To mark this out of 10 it would be a 20 so in saying this it as very good so 10/10.
I started looking into franchises 12 months ago and dealt with many franchise managers all of whom were pushy and desperate which for me was very off putting. From the first conversation with Tracey, I knew straight away she was different. Tracey guided me through everything and always at the end of the phone whenever needed, nothing was ever to much trouble. I had many conversations while I was deciding whether this was the correct company for me and was quite demanding, but this never fazed Tracey. After meeting Tracey, she was very welcoming and guided us through the process in a way which was so easy to understand, and I always felt she is a real people person and can communicate flawlessly. Every question I had was met with a very quick response and I knew straight away she had a mass amount of knowledge regarding the company. I decided to buy the franchise and am very glad I did. I mainly purchased this Franchise because of Tracey without her constantly being there no matter what time of day for us or her fantastic attitude towards the people she is working with and the way if you need something she is able connect you with so many contacts to get where you need to be I don't know where I'd be right now. I would like to say a massive thank you for the continued support Tracey is giving us, it is a joy to work with you.
Why invest in a Metro Plumb franchise?
