AI search accuracy for home services (plumbing, hvac, electrical): what ChatGPT and Perplexity need

When people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Google AI about home services (plumbing, hvac, electrical), the answers depend on what those assistants can read on your site. These are the facts they most often need, and get wrong when they are missing or not machine-readable.

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Facts AI assistants need from these sites

  • Services offered and emergency availability
  • Service area by city or ZIP
  • Pricing, trip fees and financing
  • Licensing and hours

What we found on 46 home services (plumbing, hvac, electrical) websites

  • 89% have any structured data (JSON-LD)
  • 70% identify the business in structured data
  • 46% publish machine-readable opening hours
  • 39% publish machine-readable pricing
  • 15% have FAQ structured data
  • 39% have an /llms.txt file
  • 93% have a meta description

None of the sampled sites block the major AI crawlers in robots.txt.

Methodology: Read-only scan of the homepage and up to 2 linked pages of 46 public home services (plumbing, hvac, electrical) websites in six U.S. metros (Austin, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix), scanned 2026-10-26. Site list from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Our crawler honors robots.txt; individual sites are never named. Automated checks find only some issues, and these figures describe the sample, not every business or any legal conclusion. About our crawler.

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Frequently asked questions

What should home services (plumbing, hvac, electrical) check first?

Services offered and emergency availability.

How do I check my own site?

Run the free audit. It shows which AI crawlers your robots.txt blocks and generates a ready-to-upload /llms.txt and structured data (JSON-LD) with your real facts, so assistants have accurate information to quote.

Is this legal advice?

No. These are technical guidelines and an automated, read-only check, not legal advice or a certification.

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