Licensed plumbers serving Melvin and the surrounding IA communities. Emergency calls answered day and night.
Everything from a dripping faucet to a new main water line.
No hot water in Melvin? Most units under eight years old are worth repairing and we will tell you when yours is not.
Failing galvanized, polybutylene and corroded copper in Melvin replaced with new copper or PEX, room by room.
Fixture replacement in Melvin with the shutoffs and supply lines updated while everything is apart.
Twenty-four hour emergency plumbing across Melvin. The damage stops first, then the repair gets done properly.
Most humming disposals in Melvin are a jam, not a dead motor. We check that before selling you a new unit.
Primary pump plus battery backup installed in Melvin, tested by filling the pit before we leave.
Hidden leaks under slabs, inside walls and out in the yard, found with pressure tests and listening gear before anything is opened.
The main water line between the meter or well and your Melvin home repaired or replaced, including trenching and restoration.
Grease, roots or a broken section — the Melvin drain gets cleared and you find out which one it was.
New toilet installation in Melvin including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
If you smell gas in Melvin, get out and call. Leak location and repair handled by a licensed contractor.
Repeated backups usually mean the line itself, not the drain. The camera shows you the break before any digging.
Hard water, iron staining and sulfur smell are three different problems in Melvin and need three different systems.
Submersible and jet pump replacement for Melvin area wells, with the pressure set correctly before we go.
Burst and frozen pipes in Melvin handled start to finish — shutoff, cutout, repair, pressure test and closed back up.
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 Melvin — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Melvin, Iowa 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.
What you actually get when you call us.
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.
Sewer and drain problems get a camera down the line first, and you see the screen. Nobody trenches a yard on a guess when a fifteen minute look will show the break.
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.
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 Melvin 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.
You get a price for the repair before any work starts, not an hourly meter that runs while you watch. The diagnostic visit in Melvin is quoted up front on the phone, and if you approve the repair that visit charge goes toward the job.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Melvin leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
We do. If someone has told you the house needs a full repipe or a new sewer line, a Melvin second opinion either finds you a smaller fix or confirms the first diagnosis so you can buy with confidence.
For a true emergency in Melvin 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.
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 Melvin.
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."
"Kitchen drain had been slow for a year. Ran the cable, then put a camera down and showed me the grease ring on his screen. Explained what to stop pouring down it. Has not backed up since."
"Kitchen remodel plumbing, sink and disposal and the dishwasher line. Coordinated with my cabinet guy without me having to run messages between them."
We cover the surrounding towns too.