Gene's Plumbing handles repiping across Alamo and the surrounding area — licensed, insured and available for emergencies.
Polybutylene and old galvanized are the two materials that bring most Alamo repipe calls. Both fail from the inside, and both fail everywhere at roughly the same time.
Every house handles repiping a little differently depending on its age, and Alamo has plenty of both old and new. The fitting, the pipe material and the way the last plumber left it all change what the right repair is.
That is why the Alamo truck carries parts for more than one era of plumbing. The repiping job gets finished on the first visit wherever it can be, because a second trip costs you a day and costs us the trust.
How the job actually runs, start to finish.
A plumber asks the questions on the phone that narrow it down, so the right parts and the right machine are already on the truck when it arrives.
A gauge goes on the system, a camera goes down the line, or the meter gets checked with everything off — whichever actually answers the question. Nobody quotes a repair on a guess.
If there is a cheaper option that will actually hold, you hear about it. If the cheap option is a patch that fails in six months, you hear that too.
Before the truck goes you see it working — the drain running, the pressure holding, the pit cycling — not just a thumbs up from the driveway.
The questions homeowners ask about this one.
It depends on what the diagnosis turns up, which is why you get a firm price for your repiping job in Alamo before any work starts rather than an hourly rate that runs while you wait.
Anything actively leaking or backing up is treated as same-day in Alamo. Scheduled repiping work is usually booked within two or three business days.
Drop cloths go down before anything starts, cuts are made as small and as clean as the repiping job allows, and everything removed leaves with the truck when the Alamo work is done.
If the situation is urgent, yes — Alamo emergency calls are answered day and night, and the first priority is stopping the water before the repiping repair is started.
Feedback from customers who had this work done.
"Burst pipe in the crawlspace in January. He had the main off and the section cut out before I finished explaining. Pressure tested it in front of me before he closed it up."
"Pressure tank was short cycling every time we ran a tap. Diagnosed a waterlogged tank, replaced it, and the pump is not hammering on and off anymore."
"Kitchen drain had been slow for a year. Ran the cable, then put a camera down and showed me the grease ring on his screen. Explained what to stop pouring down it. Has not backed up since."