About Auburn Hills Plumbing
Auburn Hills Plumbing is a Grand Rapids plumbing company that repairs, replaces and installs the plumbing in houses, townhomes, small rental buildings and storefronts. It has been run since 2011 by its manager, Zak Mitchell.
Zak Mitchell
Zak Mitchell has worked across the whole range of residential plumbing. He has fixed dripping faucets and replaced worn toilet flappers, and he has also repiped whole houses, installed water heaters and roughed in the supply and drain lines for kitchen and bathroom remodels.
Most days fall somewhere between those two ends: clearing a stubborn drain, or tracing a leak to the fitting behind a wall that is actually causing it. That middle ground is where most of the company’s work still sits.
When I started Auburn Hills Plumbing in 2011, jobs were booked by phone and written down on paper. Today we work with set appointment windows and a written estimate before the work begins. We also take photos of what we find under the sink or in the crawl space, so you see the problem before you approve the repair.
Zak
The Buildings We Work In
Most of our calls come from older single-family houses, townhomes, small rental buildings and storefronts around Grand Rapids. In buildings of that age, worn galvanized steel supply pipe and cast iron drain lines are often part of the job, and a repair that starts at one faucet can lead to a talk about the pipe feeding it.
The work itself is everyday plumbing: water heater replacement, drain cleaning, clogged sewer lines, leaky faucet and toilet repair, garbage disposal swaps and sump pump installation, along with repiping and new fixture installs. Each kind of work is laid out on its own under our services.
Landlords and storefront owners tend to call about the same things homeowners do, a backed-up drain, a water heater that quit or a leak showing through a ceiling, with one difference: someone else is living or working above the pipe.
Checking the Work Before We Leave
The checks that matter most happen after a repair looks finished. New supply lines are pressure tested before anything is closed up behind a wall. A new water heater is checked at the nearest tap, at its gas connections and at its expansion tank. A cleared drain runs for several minutes, and a sewer line gets a camera through it so the pipe itself can be seen.
Under a sink, every joint is wiped dry and checked a second time before we pack up. It takes a few minutes, and it is the difference between a repair that holds and a cabinet floor that is damp again a week later.
Where We Work and How to Reach Us
The company works in Grand Rapids and the communities around it, including Wyoming, Kentwood and Walker; the full list with ZIP codes is under Areas We Serve.
To have something looked at, call the office at (616) 681-4424 or book service online with a few lines about the problem.