Plumbing repairs and installs throughout Kitty Hawk, NC — licensed, insured, and straight with you about what it needs.
Repairs, replacements and installs — pick what you need.
New toilet installation in Kitty Hawk including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
No hot water in Kitty Hawk? Most units under eight years old are worth repairing and we will tell you when yours is not.
Most humming disposals in Kitty Hawk are a jam, not a dead motor. We check that before selling you a new unit.
That climbing Kitty Hawk water bill with nothing running is almost always a leak. We find exactly where before touching the floor.
A dripping shower usually needs a cartridge, not a wall opened up. We try the smaller fix first in Kitty Hawk.
Root intrusion, bellied lines and collapsed clay pipe under Kitty Hawk yards repaired with the lawn put back right.
A sump pump that runs constantly or not at all is a flooded Kitty Hawk basement waiting on the next heavy rain.
Whole-house repipe done so you never lose water overnight, with clean drywall cuts that are easy to patch.
Hard water, iron staining and sulfur smell are three different problems in Kitty Hawk and need three different systems.
Full water service replacement in Kitty Hawk with the trench backfilled and the sod set back down properly.
Well pumps, pressure tanks and pressure switches around Kitty Hawk repaired and replaced for homes on private water.
Frozen pipe repair plus insulation on that run so the same section does not split again next winter.
Grease, roots or a broken section — the Kitty Hawk drain gets cleared and you find out which one it was.
Twenty-four hour emergency plumbing across Kitty Hawk. The damage stops first, then the repair gets done properly.
Gas leaks located and repaired in Kitty Hawk, plus new lines run to ranges, dryers, water heaters and grills.
Gene Wagner started this company in 1998 with one truck and a licence, and the first customers were neighbors. That is still the shape of the work in a city like Kitty Hawk — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Kitty Hawk, North Carolina tend to be older and further apart, which changes the job. Longer water service runs, more private wells, more frozen pipe calls in January. A plumber who only works new construction is out of his depth here.
The parts of the job that are easy to skip and we do not.
This started as two people and a truck in 1998 and grew on water, sewer and drain work. Nearly three decades in one trade, not a franchise name bought off a shelf last year.
Drop cloths go down, cuts get made clean so the patch is easy, and the old tank or fixture leaves with the truck. The room should look better than we found it.
You hear the number before a wrench moves. No hourly meter running while you stand there, and no discovering the real cost after the wall is open.
Softeners and filters get sized off a real water test, not a sales script. Hardness, iron and sulfur are three different problems and they need three different answers.
Told you need a full repipe or a new sewer line? Get it looked at again. Sometimes it is a smaller fix, and sometimes we confirm the first plumber was right so you can spend with confidence.
Straight answers to the things people call and ask first.
Yes. Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Kitty Hawk are answered around the clock. The first thing on the phone is getting your main shutoff closed so the house stops taking damage while a truck is on the way.
For a true emergency in Kitty Hawk the target is same-day, and most of the time inside a few hours. Scheduled work like a water heater swap or a fixture set is usually booked within two or three business days.
You get a price for the repair before any work starts, not an hourly meter that runs while you watch. The diagnostic visit in Kitty Hawk is quoted up front on the phone, and if you approve the repair that visit charge goes toward the job.
Almost always. A cable machine or hydro jet goes in through an existing cleanout and clears the line from there. In Kitty Hawk the camera goes down afterward so you can see whether it was grease, roots or a broken section.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Kitty Hawk leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
Under about eight years old with a bad element, thermostat or valve, repair is usually the better money in Kitty Hawk. Past twelve years, or if the tank itself is weeping, replacement is the honest answer and we will say so.
Real feedback from real plumbing calls.
"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."
"Hard water was eating our fixtures. Softener sized off the test, installed neat with unions so it can be serviced, and they showed me how to set the salt."
"Water heater let go on a Sunday morning and flooded half the basement. Had someone here inside two hours, new tank in by afternoon, and he hauled the old one off. Price was what he said on the phone."
We cover the surrounding towns too.