This calculator vs. ServiceTitan

What each tool is for

ServiceTitan is field-service management software founded in 2012 by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan and headquartered in Glendale, California, built for residential and commercial trade contractors across plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and related trades. It combines customer records, dispatch and scheduling, technician mobile tools, estimating and sales presentation, invoicing, payments, inventory, and reporting into one system meant to run a whole contracting business across every truck and every job, and it listed on Nasdaq in December 2024. It is sold as an ongoing account for the company rather than as a single-job tool. ServiceTitan's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented, non-numeric identity — a field-service management platform for trade contractors, sold as an ongoing account — is stated, and no dollar amount for ServiceTitan appears on this page.

This calculator does none of what ServiceTitan does. It does not hold customer records, dispatch trucks, run a technician app, send invoices, or collect payments, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes the replacement method (open-cut excavation, pipe bursting, or CIPP lining), the run footage and how much of it sits under hard surface, bury depth, pipe diameter, the number of laterals, cleanouts, and access pits, whether the house stays occupied and needs a bypass, plus loaded wage, payroll burden, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the crew hours the job actually consumes, the price per foot, the share of the bid that is surface restoration rather than pipe, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.

Most plumbing and sewer shops get different value from each: ServiceTitan (or a comparable field-service platform) for running customer records, dispatch, technicians, invoicing, and payments across a whole business as an ongoing account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one sewer run should cost from its method, depth, and surface before a company-wide system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a dispatched job, an invoice, or a signed proposal, and neither this calculator nor ServiceTitan is a camera inspection, a permit, a locate, or an engineering determination.

This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.

Common questions

Should I use this calculator or ServiceTitan?

They do different jobs, and a plumbing or sewer-repair shop of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. ServiceTitan is field-service management software founded in 2012 by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan and headquartered in Glendale, California, built for residential and commercial trade contractors across plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and related trades. It combines customer records, dispatch and scheduling, technician mobile tools, estimating and sales presentation, invoicing, payments, inventory, and reporting into one system meant to run a whole contracting business, and it listed on Nasdaq in December 2024. It is sold as an ongoing account for the company rather than as a single-job tool. ServiceTitan's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented, non-numeric identity is stated, and no dollar amount for ServiceTitan appears on this page. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from the replacement method (open-cut excavation, pipe bursting, or CIPP lining), the run footage, how much of that run sits under hard surface, bury depth, pipe diameter, the number of laterals, cleanouts, and access pits, whether the house stays occupied, plus loaded wage, burden, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the crew hours the job actually consumes, the price per foot, the share of the bid that is surface restoration rather than pipe, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A shop that already needs dispatch, technician mobile tools, invoicing, and payments across every truck and every job is better served by ServiceTitan or a comparable field-service platform; a shop that wants an instant, private answer to what one sewer run should cost from its method, depth, and surface before opening a company-wide system is in the right place here.

Does this calculator decide whether a line can be burst or lined?

No. It prices the method you pick; it does not pick the method. Whether a given run can be pipe burst or lined at all depends on the existing pipe material and condition, bellies and offsets, the number and position of laterals, separation from other utilities, local code, and what the permit and inspection require, and that is a judgment call for the licensed plumber on site with a camera in the line. The calculator's value is showing what each method costs on the same run once that call has been made, including the surface restoration that often decides which one keeps the margin.

Is this page affiliated with ServiceTitan?

No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ServiceTitan, Inc. ServiceTitan is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.

Open the Sewer Line Replacement Bid Calculator to price your own run.