129 plumbers filed 1,606 plumbing permits on homes in the City of Tyler from October 2023 to September 2026; 82 filed one in the last 12 months. The most active in the last 12 months were Hester Plumbing (52 permits), Bannister Plumbing (47) and Garrett Plumbing Co (45); busy is not the same as careful. Tyler, TX plumbing permits carry no filed job value, so this list compares firms on permits filed, finishing, license and recent activity only. Side by side: permits filed, share finished, license status and permits in the last 12 months for each firm. Pick what you value and the list re-orders.
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Top 5 by plumbing permits filed in the last 12 months. This is volume, not quality: a busy firm is not necessarily a careful one.
Before you move a slider, the list is in a default order built only from the permit record: how much of each firm’s record is this kind of job (weight 30), how often its permits reached completion (25), how many permits it filed in the last 12 months (15) and how quickly its permits closed (10). Each measure is ranked against the other 129 firms and pulled toward the middle when a record is short; a firm with a matched license problem is listed last.
The order comes from the Tyler permit file, not from reviews: 82 of 129 plumbers filed a permit in the last 12 months and 72% of their permits a year or more old were finished. Nobody pays to be listed or to move up, and there are no star ratings or reviews. The sliders and presets change the weights, and the order changes with them. How the records work in Tyler.
We do not rate contractors. In this page’s default order, which uses only the permit record through Sep 2026, the top 3 are Garrett Plumbing Co (128 permits, 87% finished), Bannister Plumbing (180 permits, 80% finished) and Watson Plumbing (81 permits, 85% finished). By permits filed alone, the most active is Bannister Plumbing with 180.
129 firms are on the list; the busiest filed 52 plumbing permits in the last 12 months and the middle firm filed 2 in the whole file. Line them up on the same public measures: permits filed, share of permits finished and license status. Pick what matters to you and the list re-orders, for example recent activity if you need someone soon. The order comes from the permit record only, and nobody pays to be listed or to move up.
129 firms filed at least one plumbing permit on homes in the City of Tyler from October 2023 to September 2026; 82 of them filed one in the last 12 months.
The license file we match against for Tyler rarely covers plumbing firms (13 of 129 matched), so a missing status here says nothing about a firm. Plumbers are licensed by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners and irrigators by TCEQ (not linked here); roofers, pool, driveway and general contractors need no state license. Ask for the license or registration number and check it with TSBPE public license search. How to check a contractor's license in Texas →
Three you can check against this page: “How many plumbing permits have you filed in Tyler?” (the middle firm here filed 2; 82 of 129 filed one in the last 12 months); “What does your quote include: the permit fee and the city inspection?”; “Will you pull the permit in your company’s name, and when is the final inspection?” (72% of older plumbing permits here were finished). All 10 questions and how to check each →
On this page: 129 firms filed 1,606 plumbing permits from October 2023 to September 2026, and each firm’s name opens its own permit record. Every number comes from City of Tyler TRAKiT building, mechanical, electrical and plumbing permits on homes, from three city GIS exports of the permit table. To see one permit itself, search the address or permit number with the Tyler permit office. How the records work in Tyler →
Tyler plumbing permits carry no filed job value, so we can’t rank plumbers by price. Get two or three written quotes; ask whether the permit fee and the city inspection are included; shortlist from the 82 firms that filed in the last 12 months.
We do not rate or collect reviews. Instead each of the 129 plumbers here is shown with its permit record: 1,606 permits, the share finished and license status. Read reviews on other sites and use this page to check them against the record. Reviews vs permit records →
Every number on this page comes from City of Tyler TRAKiT building, mechanical, electrical and plumbing permits on homes, from three city GIS exports of the permit table: 129 firms filed 1,606 plumbing permits on homes in the City of Tyler from October 2023 to September 2026, and 82 of them filed one in the last 12 months. The middle firm has 2 permits in the whole file. A short record leaves more uncertainty, and some jobs never require a permit.
No usable job value is recorded for this permit type, so no typical cost is shown. See how we compare records.
Most Tyler plumbing permits are filed in August (124 against an average month of 100); June is the quietest (74). When each trade is busiest in Tyler →