Burst Pipe Repair
A split line behind drywall or in the attic can flood a room while you are looking for the shutoff. The break is located and the failed section replaced.
Burst Pipe RepairPlumbing Services in Austin
Burst lines, blocked drains, dead water heaters, hidden leaks and sewer backups. Austin Emergency Plumbing Pros connects callers with independent plumbers for these repairs; ask the provider to explain the work and price first.
- Plumbing Referral Service
- Independent Pros
- Availability Varies
Common Plumbing Repairs
Drain Cleaning
Kitchen, laundry, tub and floor drains that run slowly or back up. Ask the plumber to clear the line and explain why it blocked.
Drain Cleaning
Water Heater Repair
Gas, electric and tankless units, from a failed element or thermocouple to a tank that has finally rusted through.
Water Heater Repair
Leak Detection and Repair
Rising water use with no visible leak, damp drywall or a meter that never stops moving. The source is traced first.
Leak Detection
Slab Leak Repair
Water lines running under a concrete slab, located and repaired with the least cutting the situation allows.
Slab Leak Repair
Sewer Line Repair
Root intrusion, separated joints and collapsed sections in the line between the house and the city connection.
Sewer Line Repair
Toilet and Faucet Repair
Running toilets, dripping mixers, seized angle stops and the small leaks that quietly raise a water bill.
Toilet and Faucet Repair
Main Water Line Repair
The service line from the meter to the house: leaks underground, falling pressure and corroded older pipe, repaired or replaced.
Water Line Repair
Garbage Disposal Repair
Jams, humming motors, reset buttons that keep tripping and leaks at the sink flange or the discharge pipe.
Garbage Disposal RepairService for Your Property
Austin plumbing is not one kind of plumbing. A bungalow near the central city may still be on pier-and-beam with cast-iron drains you can reach from a crawlspace, while a 1980s house in north or south Austin has its supply lines cast into the slab and a water heater squeezed into the garage or the attic.
Ground conditions differ across town as well. West of MoPac the digging runs into limestone and caliche within a foot or two of the surface; east of I-35 the clay swells after rain and shrinks through a dry summer, which is hard on buried drain joints. Hard water from the Edwards region leaves scale in heaters, aerators and shower valves everywhere in between.
Comparing a failing heater against a new one? Read water heater repair versus replacement. Otherwise see how a service call works, find your town on the service areas page, or call about what is happening.
Arrange plumbing service in Austin
Describe the fixture and what the water is doing, and the right visit can be planned.