Harris County
Plumbers in Memorial, Houston TX
Memorial homes are sixty and seventy years old. Their plumbing problems are not the same as a twenty-year-old suburb's, and they should not be diagnosed as if they were.
We actually know Memorial
What working Memorial every week teaches you
Getting to you
Memorial is a straight run east from Katy down I-10. Our Houston operations office on the Katy Freeway sits right in this corridor.
The housing stock
This is the oldest housing in our service area by a wide margin. Much of Memorial went up between the 1950s and the 1970s, and a great deal of it is original — which changes the plumbing conversation completely.
The water
City of Houston municipal supply. Hardness is less of a headline here than what decades of it have already done to original galvanized and cast iron.
The local pattern
Plumbing problems we see most in Memorial
Cast iron sewer lines at end of life
Cast iron drain lines from the 1950s and 60s corrode from the inside until the bottom of the pipe channels out entirely. Recurring backups in an old Memorial home are usually the pipe itself, not a clog — and a camera shows the difference in about ten minutes.
Galvanized supply lines choking off flow
Galvanized pipe rusts inward. Owners describe it as pressure loss, but the pressure is fine — the opening inside the pipe has closed up. Once it starts, no amount of fixture work restores the flow; it is a repipe question.
Slab leaks under mid-century foundations
Original under-slab copper of that vintage is well past the point where pinholes appear. In these homes we lean hard toward rerouting overhead rather than repeatedly opening a sixty-year-old slab.
Memorial questions
Asked by Memorial homeowners
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281-601-1513My old Memorial house keeps backing up. Is that a clog?
Often it is the pipe rather than a clog. Cast iron lines from the 1950s and 60s corrode and lose their shape, so debris catches on the rough interior. Snaking clears it briefly and it returns. A camera inspection tells you which one you are dealing with.
Why is my water pressure low everywhere in the house?
In a mid-century Memorial home this usually means galvanized supply piping that has rusted closed from the inside. It is a whole-system problem, which is why replacing fixtures or the PRV does not change it.
Do I have to jackhammer the slab to fix a slab leak?
Not always. In older homes we frequently reroute the affected line overhead through the attic instead of opening the slab. It is often less invasive, less expensive, and it removes a line that would have failed again anyway.
Need a plumber in Memorial today?
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