Publisher

About and disclosure

Page date: November 15, 2026.

Toledo Plumber Guide is an independent consumer guide for people in the United States who want to find and check a plumber in Toledo, Ohio. The written check is on Check a Toledo plumber.

On November 15, 2026 the City of Toledo plumbing contractors list showed 109 license codes. The City page's own stamp said last updated October 14, 2026. That number is a count of the rows that day, not a ranking, and the live table is the record.

Who publishes this site

Arkenstone Labs GmbH, Berlin, Germany, publishes this site. The company is not a plumbing contractor. It has no City of Toledo registration and no Ohio contractor license, because it does not do that work.

The publisher disclosure is printed once, in the footer of every page, including this one.

What we are not

• We are not a plumbing company, and we do not do plumbing work.
• We are not a referral service. We do not send a plumber to a job.
• We are not affiliated with the City of Toledo or the State of Ohio.
• We are not paid by any plumber today. No plumber is featured.
• We do not publish reviews, ratings, or testimonials, and we do not publish a phone number for this site.

Why the site is worded this way

Toledo Municipal Code 1311.01(a) says no person, firm, or corporation shall display a sign stating or implying that they are a plumbing contractor, or advertise, or otherwise indicate or represent, orally or in writing, that they are in the plumbing business or trade, unless they first obtain a certificate of registration under that chapter.

Ohio Revised Code 4740.13(A) says no person shall act as or claim to be a type of contractor that chapter licenses unless that person holds or has been assigned the license. The ban is not limited to people who already hold a license.

Ohio Revised Code 1345.02(B)(9) treats a claim of sponsorship, approval, or affiliation the supplier does not have as deceptive. Section 1345.02(G) treats the lack of a registration or license required by state law or local ordinance, when the supplier is engaging in the trade, as an unfair or deceptive act. Section 1345.02(C) says courts, in construing the unfair-or-deceptive standard, give due consideration and great weight to Federal Trade Commission rules, guides, and court interpretations of the FTC Act.

FTC staff have said lead generators should disclose who they are and how information is shared, and that online disclosures should be clear and close to the claim. Those staff papers are Follow the Lead (2016) and .com Disclosures (2013). This site's banner is the disclosure next to the claim. The site does not collect plumbing requests, so there is no consumer information to share with a plumber.

Google's Business Profile eligibility page lists lead-generation agents or companies as ineligible. This site does not create a Business Profile. It is not a local plumbing business, and publishing structured data that described it as one would contradict the disclosure. The structured data on these pages names Arkenstone Labs GmbH as the publisher of a guide.

If a plumber pays us later

No plumber pays us today. Nothing on this site is rented.

If that ever changes, the page would have to do all of the following, and the banner on every page would be replaced so the payment is stated there:

1. Name only a plumber who is on the City of Toledo plumbing-contractor list.
2. Show that plumber's Ohio license number in the form required by Ohio Administrative Code 4101:16-2-05: OH LIC# followed by the number.
3. Say, on every page, that the named plumber pays Arkenstone Labs GmbH to be featured, and that this site still does not do plumbing work.

The wording prepared for that later banner, which is not in effect and sits over no phone number, is:

Featured plumber: [Business name], City of Toledo registration [PLC-xx-xxxxx], OH LIC# [xxxxx]. This site is owned by Arkenstone Labs GmbH, which [Business name] pays to be featured. We do not do plumbing work. Calls to the number below go directly to [Business name].

There is no number below that sentence. We have not named a plumber.

The questions below are also carried as structured data for the guide. They do not describe a local business.

Sources

Read November 15, 2026, except the two FTC staff papers, which carry their own publication years.

• Toledo Municipal Code 1311.01.
• Ohio Revised Code 4740.13.
• Ohio Revised Code 1345.02.
• Ohio Administrative Code 4101:16-2-05.
• FTC staff, Follow the Lead (2016).
• FTC staff, .com Disclosures (2013).
• Google Business Profile restricted categories.