Plumber Near Me

Our shop is at 101 Petra's Way in Kyle, so Kyle, Buda and San Marcos are home ground for us. We cover the rest of Hays County too, including Wimberley, Dripping Springs, Niederwald and Creedmoor, and we serve Austin from our office on South Congress. If you are not sure whether your address is in our area, call and ask before you book.

Typically, on a water leak, you're going to see some sign of moisture. You're gonna see a wet spot, green grass growing in an area. It's not super difficult to find. Poke around the green spot. When you get a muddy spot at the end of your poker, it's a pretty clear indication that the water leak is close.

Definitely a drippy shower faucet. The best thing to do with a drippy faucet is fix it. The leak is not going to drip any less, it is only going to get worse. If you don't replace that cartridge to stop it, it is going to damage the valve body in your wall. Valves are made out of brass, and a rubber cartridge sits against the back of the brass to seal it. Once that rubber wears out it starts weeping through between the brass and the cartridge.

Slab leaks on the drain side can be far more expensive, because you cannot reroute those through the attic. They are gravity fed drain lines, typically. A lot of the time we have to tunnel up under the foundation and replace or repair the pipe. A slab leak where the drain has to be replaced is about the worst case scenario for a homeowner.

All your fixtures are tested by the manufacturer at 60 pounds of pressure, so you are supposed to have around 60 pounds. Some places run at 120 pounds, and that is just spraying. It will eat through most anything. Everything that adds additional stress is like having high blood pressure: if yours ran 1.5 times normal you would need medication. More water pressure is not better. There are regulators at the manifold, in the ground and right at the meter to control it, and without them you would have constant leaks.

A lot of people ask. The common thinking is that tankless water heaters save a ton of money, or give you instant hot water. Putting a tankless heater on the other side of your house does not make hot water arrive faster; it still takes the same time to travel from the heater to the fixture. It will save you some gas. But retrofitting from a tank to a tankless means a lot of work: moving water lines and normally increasing the gas pipe sizing.

The average lifespan of a gas fired water heater is 8 to 12 years. Most people do not flush the water heater annually the way every manufacturer recommends. Any time we get called out on a heater over 8 years old we start talking about replacement versus repair. Once it is at the edge of its lifespan, do you want to put $300 to $500 into repair maintenance, or put that toward a new water heater?