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Photo Gallery

A few photos from plumbing jobs, grouped by the kind of work. Most plumbing ends up hidden behind a wall, under a floor or in the ground, so these show the stages a customer rarely sees: the drain line while it is open, the trench before it is filled and the pipe before the drywall goes up.

Floor Drains and Sewer Lines

Drain work in older houses often means cast iron, and cast iron lines collect scale on the inside and let roots in at the joints. A basement floor drain is usually the lowest opening in the house, so it is where a blocked main line shows first. A drum machine feeds a steel cable through the line with a cutting head on the end to break the blockage loose and pull it back out, and what comes up, roots, hair and grease, tells a lot about the condition of the pipe. Where a section of sewer pipe has cracked, sagged or been crushed, cleaning only buys time: that section is dug out and replaced with new plastic pipe, joined to the old line on each side with rubber couplings and clamps.

  • Drum drain machine at a basement floor drain beside an old cast iron stack, with roots and hair pulled from the line
    Floor drain cleared by machine
  • Roots and hair pulled from a basement floor drain lying beside the open cast iron drain fittings
    Roots pulled from a floor drain
  • Dug-out sewer line with a new white PVC section joined to the old pipe by black rubber couplings in a muddy trench
    Sewer line section replaced

Bathrooms and Fixtures

Fixture work runs from a single faucet or toilet to the plumbing for a whole bathroom remodel. On a remodel the plumbing happens in stages: the tub and the shower valve are set before the tile goes up, the vanity is placed and its drain and supply lines lined up before the top goes on, and the trim, faucets and showerhead are fitted once the finishes are done. A small powder room is the same work at a smaller scale, often a new toilet and a new faucet on an existing vanity.

  • Remodeled bathroom with a soaking tub behind sliding glass doors, marble-look wall tile and a square rain showerhead, a work light resting on the toilet
    Tub and shower trim-out
  • New bathroom vanity cabinet set in place before its top goes on, beside the tub and a recessed shower niche
    Vanity set for its top
  • Small powder room with a white toilet, a black single-handle faucet on a white vanity and a casement window
    Powder room fixtures

Supply and Drain Rough-In

Before the walls close on a remodel or a repipe, the new water lines and the drain are run and stubbed out where the fixtures will go. Red and white plastic supply tubing keeps the hot and cold lines easy to tell apart, and it bends around framing with fewer fittings than rigid pipe. This is the stage where the height of a sink drain or the spacing of a shower valve is set for good, so it is worth getting right before the drywall goes up.

  • Red and white PEX water lines and a black plastic drain with a trap stubbed through the wall of a stripped room
    Supply and drain rough-in

Booking Similar Work

Whether it is a floor drain that backs up, a sewer line that keeps clogging or plumbing for a bathroom update, the first step is the same: book service with a few lines about the job, or call the office, and the visit starts by finding out what is actually going on.