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Plumbing Tools

Maybe

The top 5 brands take only 45% of clicks. But demand is soft, at -38.9% this quarter, so Plumbing Tools is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 21% of 2,225 DIY & Tools niches · +6 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£147K/yr557K searches / yr
90-day growth
-38.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
32%top-5 click share · 43 brands · 141 sellers

Flapen Score

Plumbing Tools against its category

The dotted line is the DIY & Tools average. Past it, Plumbing Tools is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plumbing Tools market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plumbing Tools 557K times last year and spent an estimated £147K. The top 5 brands take 45% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 557K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -38.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £147K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
557K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-38.9%
Conversion, latest week
2.2%
Market size, estimated
£147Ka year
Peak month
November2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
plumbing tools306K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.97.

Listings sell for £11.97 on average, from £3.20 to £56.93. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £11.97 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.97under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.20–£56.93
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
1.6%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #164 within Building Supplies. It carries 1,256 reviews at 4.23 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.0%
Average rank
#164in Building Supplies
Average rating
4.23 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,256per listing
Listings tracked
56

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 10 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

10 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
10
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Plumbing Tools products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 22, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 32% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£4K£9K£13K£18K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

43 falling

Sellers

141

Est. top-5 brand share

45%

Top 20: 83%

Est. top-5 click share

32%

Top 20: 68%

Open market

50%

  • Todays Tools12%
  • Generic11%
  • Heatlab10%
  • DURATECH6%
  • Monument6%
  • Fluxuator5%

Demand

Plumbing Tools search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Plumbing Tools search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • plumbing tools306K/yr
  • plumbing50K/yr
  • plumbing tools and equipment66K/yr
  • plumbers tools61K/yr
  • plumbing spanner18K/yr
  • plumber tools11K/yr
  • plumbers spanner12K/yr
  • plumbing wrench10K/yr
  • plumbing spanners6K/yr
  • plumbing accessories7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plumbing Tools

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
1.6%of orders come back
“Doesnt fit”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”16% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plumbing Tools questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data