Introduction: A Plumber You Can Trust
We’re grateful. Our Pilot Plumbing customers keep noting that the trust they placed in us for big emergencies like water line breaks was well-placed. We’re available 24/7, and our expert plumbers respond quickly to stop leaks, flooding, and rapidly mounting water bills. While their reviews make a great case for becoming our customer, and we appreciate that, we don’t mind proving ourselves to you. We’d love to earn your trust with our regular plumbing services, then be the plumber you can trust and count on if plumbing disasters strike.
Being Proactive Helps Prevent Plumbing Crises and Costs, Anyway
As your local plumbing experts, we know how to head off plumbing problems, from drain clogs and overflows to water heater floods. Maintenance and inspections help you stay on top of the condition of your plumbing and appliances, and identify problems that are on the way. In many cases, catching problems early gives you the option of repairing or upgrading appliances and fixtures, and with pipe-related concerns, you can never catch them too soon. With plumber inspections of critical items like sewer lines and water heaters, you can trust a plumber to save the cost of cleanup and remediation of 40 gallons of hot water or untold gallons of unclean water.
Knowing the Warning Signs of Backup – A Plumber You Can Trust
When drain pipes stop flowing, backup can be disastrous. There are often signs, though. It’s important to note when sinks back up whether it’s just the one, or several drains that if together could indicate a clogged drain pipe. A clog in the wall between floors can be more difficult to clear as time passes. And more material accumulates, with nasty backups coming up one sink as material goes down another. A toilet flush could also cause an unpleasant event. Backups in the basement from sinks, toilets, or floor drains can be an especially bad sign, indicating that the nearby exit to the sewer is clogged and in need of urgent attention. Unpleasant smells and occasional small burps of foul water from fixtures may also require a plumber.
Visual Inspections Can Tell a Lot About a Home’s Plumbing
A tour of your home’s plumbing can reveal key information that will serve you well in planning maintenance and repairs. Combined with information about your home’s age and construction, we can use our knowledge of local construction practices. And age-specific materials used to identify any risks in your home. That could need attention such as lead pipes, certain types of plastic piping that tends to have a fairly limited lifespan, a lack of local shutoff valves that could be helpful in overflows far from your main house valve, and time-related issues such as root growth into your sewer line.
In addition, our plumbers can check your water heater, overflow valve, and visible pipe joint connections, washing machine hose condition, drain flow status, outdoor plumbing winterization, and faucet valve condition, and much more. We can combine our plumber’s visual checks with a discussion of your remodeling plans or upgrade ideas. Letting you get to know us as we learn how we can serve you better.
We’ll Take Your To-Do List, Fixture Replacements, and Upgrades
Do you have projects waiting for some free time? Leaking faucets, new sinks and fixtures, a toilet replacement or a shower head and mixer upgrade? Our plumbers take care of those with expert skill, handling any hassles that arrive along the way. Such as softened flooring around the toilet or tight threads on the shower head as if we’ve been doing them for years, which we have.
The same goes for garbage disposal repairs and replacement, dishwasher installation, refrigerator ice maker plumbing. And even that little bar sink you’ve been planning to add. Of course, these are just a few common plumbing tasks that most people need — we’re also your go-to professionals for that luxury walk-in shower system you’ve been dreaming of, or that new high-tech toilet that’s on your list. It all depends on your priorities, we have the skills to match.
Water Lines and Sewer Lines a Specialty – A Plumber You Can Trust
There are two plumbing features of your home you don’t want to get surprises from. The connections to the public water supply and the public sewer. Fortunately, we have the experience and technology to catch potential problems in advance. And help you deal with water supply flow problems, damage to the line, and pressure issues. Vancouver, WA water can benefit from a water softener but it’s not hard enough water quality to require one. So if you’d like information on the benefits, let’s talk. We also serve area homes with suspected or active slab leaks. Designing correction strategies that minimize the hassle and cost for this challenging repair. If you have unexplained water consumption when everything is shut off, let’s talk.
On the output side, if your sewer line has been in use for an extended period, it warrants an inspection. Whether it exhibits signs of trouble or not, as cleaning up can be quite troublesome. Our plumbers run a camera inside and can check for root penetration, crushing pipe damage, stuck clogs of solid matter. And problems with the connection to the main line. If we catch issues they may be for future note, could be addressable with some blasts of high-pressure hydro-jetting. Or might be correctable with any of a number of sewer pipe repair techniques now available. That do not involve a backhoe and related fanfare.
Once You Know Your Local Plumbing Experts, You’ll Have Fewer Concerns as a Homeowner
At Pilot Plumbing, we take good care of our customers in the Vancouver, WA area. We’re prepared to respond around the clock to emergency situations. Our scheduled appointments are designed to maintain your home’s plumbing in good shape. When you have ideas for plumbing-related features throughout your home and property, our expert plumbers have the skills and knowledge to make them happen. From simple sink updates to lifestyle-enhancing kitchen or bathroom upgrades, give our team a call.
