Orlando
Plumber
Licensed & Local

Our shop at 3550 Old Winter Garden Rd sits between downtown Orlando and the west side, so drive time to most of Orlando and west Orange County is 5-20 minutes — Metro West about 5-10, Ocoee and College Park 10-15, Dr. Phillips, SODO and Downtown 12-15, Winter Garden, Windermere, Conway and Baldwin Park 15-20, and Horizon West 20-25. We answer the phone 24/7 and guarantee 1-hour arrival or your service call is free.

Orlando has one of the most varied housing stocks in Central Florida and the plumbing problems track that. The most common calls we run are: (1) Cast iron drain failure in pre-1970s homes — College Park bungalows, SODO and Delaney Park ranches, Lake Eola Heights, (2) Galvanized water line corrosion causing low pressure and rusty water in 1920s-1950s homes, (3) Slab leaks in mid-century homes where original copper has pinholed, (4) Sewer line root intrusion under mature oak canopies in College Park, Baldwin Park, and Delaney Park, (5) Downtown high-rise issues — failing recirculation pumps, in-wall leaks, riser problems, and (6) Aging water heaters in 2000s-era Baldwin Park and Metro West builds.

Almost certainly yes. Homes built before about 1970 in College Park, Delaney Park, Lake Como, and Lake Eola Heights almost universally have cast iron drain pipes. After 50-90 years in Orlando's high water table and acidic soil, cast iron rots from the inside out — channeling, scale buildup, then pinholes and full collapse. Symptoms are slow drains everywhere, sewer odor that won't go away, recurring backups, and sometimes brown staining at fixtures. A camera inspection confirms it in 30 minutes. Most College Park homes need partial or full cast iron drain replacement.

A slab leak is a leak in the copper water lines that run inside or under your concrete slab foundation. Mid-century Orlando homes — SODO, Delaney Park, Conway, parts of Audubon — were built with copper supply lines embedded in the slab. Over 50-70 years, Orlando's mineral content combined with electrolysis from rebar contact causes pinhole leaks. Signs are unexpected hot spots on the floor, the sound of running water with no fixtures on, a spike in your OUC water bill, or visible moisture seeping through the slab. We use electronic and acoustic detection to find them without jackhammering the whole house.

If your home was built before about 1960 and still has galvanized steel water lines, the answer is almost always yes. Galvanized pipes corrode internally — the inside diameter shrinks from 3/4 inch to as little as 1/8 inch over 50-70 years, and you also get rusty or brown water when the corrosion sloughs off. We see this constantly in College Park, Lake Eola Heights, and parts of Audubon Park. A whole-home repipe in PEX or copper restores full pressure, eliminates the rust, and adds value at sale. Most repipes can be completed in 2-3 days with minimal drywall damage.

All of Orlando and the surrounding area. Inside Orlando we're most often in: Downtown Orlando (32801), College Park (32804), SODO and Delaney Park (32806), Baldwin Park (32814), Audubon Park and Mills 50 (32803), Conway (32812), Metro West (32835), Lake Como, Lake Eola Heights, Thornton Park, Lake Davis, and the Milk District. Outside the city we're just as busy in Winter Garden, Windermere, Dr. Phillips, Horizon West, Ocoee and Apopka, Clermont, Winter Park, Lake Nona, Celebration, Kissimmee and Davenport.

Orlando city water comes from the Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC), drawn from the Floridan Aquifer and disinfected with chloramine. The water is legally safe but it's moderately hard (around 7-10 grains per gallon) and the chloramine is rough on rubber gaskets, water heater anode rods, and skin. If you see scale on fixtures, rubbery smelling water, dry skin after showers, or your water heater is failing early, a whole-house carbon filter (for chloramine) plus a softener will solve it. We install HALO systems starting at $2,500.

Yes. We work in downtown high-rises and condos regularly — the Vue, Solaire, 55 West, the Sanctuary, and others. High-rise plumbing has its own quirks: shared risers, building-wide shutoffs that require coordination with the HOA or building engineer, recirculation pump failures, and stacked units where one leak affects two or three floors. We coordinate with property management, follow building protocols, and are familiar with the condo association requirements common in downtown Orlando.

Yes. We answer the phone 24/7/365 — real human, never voicemail. Because our shop on Old Winter Garden Rd is central to Orlando and west Orange County, our typical response time is 15-45 minutes from call to arrival. If we can't make our 1-hour arrival guarantee, the service call is free. Burst pipes, sewer backups, water heater floods, and gas line emergencies all get priority dispatch.

Yes — and we put it in writing before any work starts. Most diagnostic visits in Orlando are a flat service call fee that's applied to the repair if you move forward. All quotes are written, upfront, and have no obligation. We offer a 10% discount for seniors, military, and first responders, plus 0% financing on larger projects like repipes and water heater installs. Same fair rates whether you're in College Park, Baldwin Park, or the Milk District.