Best review sites for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors in 2026
522 AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors cited 34 review sites. Grades.com collects reviews from 15 of them. Answers from the last 90 days (Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026).
Which review sites matter most for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors?
By AI citation share, the top review sites for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors are Yelp (46.9%), BBB (40.8%) and Angi (34.1%), out of 522 AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors. 14 sites are cited in at least 20 of those answers.
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Share of 522 AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors (the last 90 days) that cite each site, ranked. 12 of the 14 sites cited in 20 or more answers; the other 2 are in the table.
Which review sites does each AI assistant cite for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors?
ChatGPT cites BBB most (70% of its answers), Claude cites Yelp most (86% of its answers), Gemini cites BBB most (32% of its answers) and Perplexity cites Yelp most (79% of its answers). Each chart: the share of that assistant's answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors that cite the site.
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Yelp is the review site AI assistants cite most for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors: 46.9% of 522 answers, ahead of BBB (40.8%).
Google Business Profile is where most plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors already are: 100% of the 129 we checked have a profile there, and AI cites it in 10.3% of answers.
Angi is cited in 34.1% of answers, yet only 8% of the plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors we checked have a profile there.
Yelp is cited in 46.9% of answers, but its rules do not allow asking customers for reviews: claim the profile and reply instead.
Facebook has the biggest audience of these sites: about 3.2B monthly visits (an estimate).
Where do plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors get reviews?
Of the plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors we checked, 100% have a Google Business Profile, 78% have a Facebook profile and 47% have a BBB profile (n = 129 businesses).
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Share of the plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors we checked with a profile on each site, 0 to 100%. n = businesses checked.
The full ranking
See all 14 sites cited in 20 or more answers, in a table
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AI citation share: the share of the 522 AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 of these answers are left out.Has a profile: plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors we checked with a profile on the site. Collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from this site. Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026).
Frequently asked questions
Which review site do AI assistants cite most for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors?
Yelp is cited in 46.9% of 522 AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors, ahead of BBB (40.8%) and Angi (34.1%).
Do plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors need Yelp?
Yelp ranks #1 of 14 for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors: AI assistants cite it in 46.9% of 522 answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors, against 43.4% of all answers. 22% of the plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors we checked have a profile there (n = 129). Grades.com collects Yelp reviews.
Which review sites does Grades.com collect for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors?
Of the 34 review sites cited in AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors, Grades.com collects reviews from 15, among them Yelp, BBB, Angi, BuildZoom, Google Business Profile and Thumbtack.
Which review site is easiest for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors to get reviews on?
Of the review sites cited for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors, Angi is the one cited most (34.1% of AI answers) whose own rules let anyone leave a review, let the business send a direct review link, and allow asking customers for reviews. Yelp does not allow asking.
What is AI citation share?
The share of AI answers that cite a review site. Here it is counted over 522 answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity in the last 90 days: Yelp is cited in 245 of them, a 46.9% share.
More for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors
The three words this page uses: collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from the site (54 review sites in all); measured = every review site the AI answers cited, across all industries (109 sites); cited for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors = the measured sites that appeared in at least one of the 522 answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors (34 sites).
Data window: Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days), October 2026 edition, data as of October 30, 2026.
AI citation share: answers citing the site divided by the 522 AI answers about plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors (businesses in the "Plumbing, HVAC & Electrical" category of the Grades.com directory), from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The chart and the table rank the sites cited in 20 or more of these answers. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted.
Has a profile: the share of the plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors we checked with a profile on the site (n = businesses checked).
Picks: most cited by AI = highest citation share; easiest to get reviews = the site cited most whose own rules let anyone review, let the business send a direct review link and allow asking (from its guide; never Yelp, which does not allow asking); most replies from businesses = highest share of reviews with a business reply, among plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors, shown with at least 100 reviews checked. A pick the data cannot support is left out.
Start with these three: the sites cited most for plumbers, HVAC and electrical contractors that Grades.com collects, one per site Grades.com connects. A site that shows another site's reviews is covered by connecting that site.
Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026); an estimate for the whole domain, not a figure published by the site, and the same in every industry.
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