Licensed Master Plumbers for repairs and for whole builds
We do service work on existing homes and rough-ins for new construction. Being a full contractor as well as a plumbing outfit means we can open a wall, fix what is behind it, and close it back up properly.
The Advantage of a Plumber Who Is Also the Contractor
Most plumbing problems in an older Philadelphia home are not really plumbing problems by the time you notice them. A slow leak has already softened a subfloor. A failed shower pan has already stained the ceiling below. The pipe is a twenty-minute repair; the damage around it is the actual job.
A plumbing-only company fixes the pipe and leaves you to find somebody for the drywall, the subfloor and the tile. We are a full contractor with licensed master plumbers in-house, so we open the wall, repair the cause, repair the damage and close it back up as a single scope.
The same applies in the other direction. On new construction and remodels, our plumbing rough-ins are coordinated with our own framing and electrical rather than squeezed into a sub’s availability — which is why our kitchen and bathroom layouts are not limited to wherever the pipes already are.
Service Work and New Work
Two quite different kinds of plumbing, both in-house.
From the Call to the Wall Closed Back Up
The part most plumbing companies leave out is the last step.
Where the water is, when it started, whether it is constant or only with use. That usually narrows the cause before anyone arrives.
Water travels. The stain on a ceiling is often several feet from the failure. We find the actual cause before opening anything unnecessarily.
You get the plumbing cost and the making-good cost in one number, so there is no second contractor and no second quote.
Repair or replacement by licensed master plumbers, permitted and inspected where the scope requires it.
Subfloor, framing, drywall, tile or paint — whatever the water reached, restored by the same crew.
Run it under real conditions, confirm the fix holds, then finish the surfaces so the repair does not announce itself.
Why One Company Should Own the Whole Repair
The gap between the plumber and the finish contractor is where most of the cost and the frustration lives.
One estimate covers the damage too
You are told the full cost of being back to normal, not just the cost of the pipe being fixed.
Nobody has to be chased
No waiting on a drywaller after the plumber leaves, with an open wall in between and two schedules to reconcile.
The cause gets fixed, not covered
When the same company repairs the damage, there is no incentive to close a wall over a problem somebody else will meet later.
Layout changes become possible
Having the licence in-house is what makes moving a sink or adding a bathroom a design decision instead of a limitation.
Plumbing Questions
Emergencies, older rowhome pipework, and what happens to the wall you had to open.
Do you handle emergency plumbing?
Call us and we will tell you honestly what we can get to and when. We would rather give you a straight answer about our availability than advertise a response time we cannot always hit. In the meantime, the single most useful thing you can do for an active leak is shut off the water — either at the fixture stop or the main — because the damage from an hour of running water usually costs more than the repair itself. If we are not the right call for your timeline, we will say so rather than leave you waiting.
My house is a hundred years old. Will you work on the original pipework?
Yes, and it is most of what we see. Older Philadelphia homes typically have a mix of materials accumulated over decades of partial repairs, which is its own kind of problem: transitions between materials are common failure points, and previous work was not always done to a standard anyone would sign off on today. We will tell you when a repair is genuinely a repair and when you are better served replacing a run, because repeatedly patching a failing line costs more over a few years than doing it once. Either way you get the reasoning and the price, not just a recommendation.
Who fixes the wall or ceiling you had to open?
We do, and it is included in the estimate. This is the main practical difference between us and a plumbing-only company. Reaching a leak often means opening drywall, lifting flooring or cutting into a ceiling, and a plumbing outfit will typically stop once the pipe is sound, leaving you to find somebody for the drywall, the tile and the paint. Because we are a full contractor, the making-good is part of the same scope and the same number. You get quoted for being back to normal, not for the pipe being fixed.
Can you add a bathroom in a basement?
Often, but it depends on depth rather than space. A below-grade bathroom needs the waste line to reach the sewer connection at the correct fall, and in a rowhome basement that has not been lowered there is frequently not enough room beneath the slab to achieve it. The alternative is an ejector pump, which works but adds a mechanical part that can fail. If the floor is coming up anyway — see basement underpinning — that is the moment to set the drainage properly. We measure the available fall at the assessment and tell you which option applies.
Do you do plumbing for new construction as well as repairs?
Yes, and the two are quite different disciplines. Service work is diagnostic: finding a failure inside a finished house with minimal damage. Rough-in work on a ground-up build is planning: laying out supply, waste and vent runs before walls exist, coordinated with framing and electrical so nothing has to be cut through later. Because we run both sides in-house on our own builds, the rough-in is scheduled against our own framing rather than fitted around a subcontractor’s calendar, which is one of the more common causes of delay on a new build.
Tell Us What You Are Seeing
Describe the problem and we will tell you what it likely is, what it takes to fix, and what it costs to put the surfaces back — in one itemized estimate.