Plumbing repairs and installs throughout Richmond, VT — licensed, insured, and straight with you about what it needs.
Repairs, replacements and installs — pick what you need.
New toilet installation in Richmond including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
Gas, electric and tankless water heaters repaired or replaced in Richmond, including elements, thermostats, valves and anode rods.
Brown water, low pressure and pinhole leaks across a Richmond house mean the pipe, not the fixtures. Repiping fixes it once.
Hidden leaks under slabs, inside walls and out in the yard, found with pressure tests and listening gear before anything is opened.
If you smell gas in Richmond, get out and call. Leak location and repair handled by a licensed contractor.
Whole-house treatment installed in Richmond with unions so it can be serviced, and the salt setup explained to you.
Repeated backups usually mean the line itself, not the drain. The camera shows you the break before any digging.
Grease, roots or a broken section — the Richmond drain gets cleared and you find out which one it was.
Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Richmond answered around the clock, starting with getting your main shutoff closed.
Fixture replacement in Richmond with the shutoffs and supply lines updated while everything is apart.
The main water line between the meter or well and your Richmond home repaired or replaced, including trenching and restoration.
Primary pump plus battery backup installed in Richmond, tested by filling the pit before we leave.
Burst and frozen pipes in Richmond handled start to finish — shutoff, cutout, repair, pressure test and closed back up.
New disposal installed in Richmond with the mounting and the dishwasher connection done properly.
Well pumps, pressure tanks and pressure switches around Richmond repaired and replaced for homes on private water.
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 Richmond — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Richmond, Vermont 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.
Burst pipes and sewage backups do not wait for business hours. The phone is answered at night and on weekends, and the first thing you get is help finding your shutoff.
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.
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.
Every job goes to a licensed, insured plumbing contractor who pulls the permits your town requires. Licence numbers are on the invoice, not buried on a webpage.
Straight answers to the things people call and ask first.
Yes. Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Richmond 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.
Under about eight years old with a bad element, thermostat or valve, repair is usually the better money in Richmond. Past twelve years, or if the tank itself is weeping, replacement is the honest answer and we will say so.
Yes, and it starts with an actual water test rather than a guess. Hardness, iron and sulfur all need different equipment, so the Richmond system gets sized off what is really in your water.
Yes — well pumps, pressure tanks and pressure switches are regular work. Short cycling, no pressure and a pump that will not shut off are the three most common calls we take from well owners near Richmond.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Richmond leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
For a true emergency in Richmond 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.
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."
"Frozen pipe over the garage split during a cold snap. Thawed and repaired the same morning, then insulated that run so it does not happen again next winter."
"Sump pump died the week before a big storm. New pump and a battery backup installed in one visit. Power went out during the storm and the basement stayed dry."
We cover the surrounding towns too.