How much does water heater installation cost in Marin County? The usual water heater job filed with Marin County is $4,200, from 469 priced permits (October 2023 through September 2026); the middle half of firms file between $3,263 and $5,989. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.
The usual water heater job filed with Marin County is $4,200, from 469 priced permits, October 2023 through September 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $3,263 and $5,989. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A water heater permit here usually takes 56 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →
Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 469 priced permits across 73 firms, pooled into one. Half of Marin County (unincorporated) water heater permits were filed between $3,000 and $6,500.
| Percentile | Filed value | Reads as |
|---|---|---|
| 10th | $2,000 | 1 in 10 permits filed below |
| 25th | $3,000 | 1 in 4 filed below |
| 50th | $4,200 | the middle permit |
| 75th | $6,500 | 1 in 4 filed above |
| 90th | $10,000 | 1 in 10 filed above |
Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: Marin County assessed land and improvement values from MarinMap parcels (Proposition 13 values, which usually sit well below market value). Under Proposition 13 a home bought decades ago can carry a value far below what it would sell for today, so treat the home-value matching and the price-versus-similar-jobs comparison as rough.
| Firms working on | Usual home value | Usual filed value | Firms | Permits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower third | under $1,074,916 | $5,000 | 24 | 163 |
| Middle third | $1,074,916–$1,503,646 | $3,208 | 24 | 245 |
| Upper third | $1,509,533 and up | $4,200 | 25 | 62 |
Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months. Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.
| Firm | Permits | Last 12 mo | Usual | Middle half | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest Ongaro & Sons Inc | 87 | 14 | $2,500 | $1,800–$3,500 | 79.4% |
| Peter Levi Plumbing Inc | 71 | 7 | $5,000 | $4,000–$9,000 | 61.0% |
| Fast Water Heater Company | 46 | 5 | $3,208 | $2,711–$3,795 | 50.4% |
| John Owens Services Inc | 35 | 5 | $9,372 | $7,033–$11,713 | 88.1% |
| Gagne Brothers Enterprises Inc | 25 | 5 | $3,700 | $1,600–$5,000 | 68.1% |
| William Gotelli Plumbing Inc | 36 | 3 | $5,989 | $4,461–$8,000 | 78.7% |
| Marin H20 Inc | 7 | 3 | $2,500 | $2,500–$3,000 | — |
| Bellows Plumbing Heating & Air Inc | 20 | 2 | $4,200 | $2,135–$5,125 | 82.1% |
| Moore Services Holdings LLC | 14 | 2 | $5,156 | $4,382–$5,574 | 68.9% |
| Starving Plumbers | 6 | 2 | $3,130 | $3,062–$3,246 | 5 of 5 |
Line your quote up against the file. In Marin County (unincorporated), 1 in 10 water heater filed values sit under $2,000, the middle half between $3,000 and $6,500, and 1 in 10 over $10,000.
Marin County files the fewest water heater permits in July (72 against an average month of 100) and the most in January (140). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Marin County →
Source: Marin County Community Development Agency building permits on homes in unincorporated Marin (the County's open-data permit and inspection files). The window is October 2023 through September 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.
Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.
The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.
Nobody paid to be on this page and nobody can. How the records work in Marin County (unincorporated) →
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