A burst or split pipe
Water spraying from a pipe or coming through a ceiling keeps soaking floors, walls and cabinets until it is stopped. The damaged length is cut out and replaced, and any hidden damage nearby is traced.
Emergency Plumbing in Garland
Some plumbing trouble will not keep until Monday. Picture a split pipe under the kitchen sink, sewage welling up in the tub or a water heater emptying itself across the garage floor. Call and describe what you see.
Read on for the situations that count as plumbing emergencies in a Garland home and for what happens once the flooding stops.
What counts as a plumbing emergency
Sewage coming back up
Brown water rising through the shower floor or a laundry drain shows the pipe under the house is blocked or broken, and it keeps rising with each flush until a plumber opens the line.
A toilet overflowing
If the bowl keeps rising after a flush, either the fill valve has stuck open or something is lodged further down the drain. The plumber sorts out which and puts it right.
A leaking water heater
A puddle growing beneath the tank or a relief valve that will not stop spitting water means something in the heater has given way. The plumber decides whether a valve or fitting can be fixed or the tank is finished.
No water at the taps
When every tap in the house runs dry at once, the cause can be a broken pipe, a frozen section or a fault in the line coming from the meter.
Freezing days in Garland
Garland records an average January low of 36°F and close to 25 days a year at or under freezing. Pipes tucked into an unheated garage, an attic or an exterior wall take that cold before anything inside the living space does.
The pipe freeze risk checker on this site scores your own house from where its pipes run, using Garland’s winter figures as the starting point.
Once the water has stopped
After the emergency, the plumber works out what failed and why, repairs or replaces the damaged section and checks the rest of that run. If the cause was a hidden leak or a broken sewer line, the next step may be leak detection or a camera inspection.
Hidden leaks have their own page under leak detection, and blocked or broken lines are covered under sewer repair. For any other plumbing problem, go back to the homepage.
Call for a free plumbing quote
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