Plumbing repairs and installs throughout Colfax, IL — licensed, insured, and straight with you about what it needs.
The full range of residential plumbing, water and sewer work.
A sump pump that runs constantly or not at all is a flooded Colfax basement waiting on the next heavy rain.
Whole-house repipe done so you never lose water overnight, with clean drywall cuts that are easy to patch.
If you smell gas in Colfax, get out and call. Leak location and repair handled by a licensed contractor.
Acoustic listening, thermal imaging and pressure testing pinpoint the leak in Colfax so the repair stays small.
Main sewer line breaks in Colfax camera-inspected first, then spot repaired or replaced, trenchless where depth allows.
Twenty-four hour emergency plumbing across Colfax. The damage stops first, then the repair gets done properly.
Jammed, humming, leaking and dead disposals in Colfax repaired or replaced, with the drain plumbing corrected too.
No hot water in Colfax? Most units under eight years old are worth repairing and we will tell you when yours is not.
Burst and frozen pipes in Colfax handled start to finish — shutoff, cutout, repair, pressure test and closed back up.
Dripping faucets, worn shower valves and sink or tub fixtures repaired or replaced across Colfax.
Clogged kitchen, bath, laundry and floor drains in Colfax cleared by cable or hydro jet, then a camera to show why it clogged.
New toilet installation in Colfax including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
The main water line between the meter or well and your Colfax home repaired or replaced, including trenching and restoration.
Whole-house treatment installed in Colfax with unions so it can be serviced, and the salt setup explained to you.
Well pumps, pressure tanks and pressure switches around Colfax 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 Colfax — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Colfax, Illinois 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.
Why homeowners keep the number after the first job.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The questions homeowners ask us most.
Yes, and it starts with an actual water test rather than a guess. Hardness, iron and sulfur all need different equipment, so the Colfax 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 Colfax.
For a true emergency in Colfax 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.
We do. If someone has told you the house needs a full repipe or a new sewer line, a Colfax second opinion either finds you a smaller fix or confirms the first diagnosis so you can buy with confidence.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Colfax leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
Almost always. A cable machine or hydro jet goes in through an existing cleanout and clears the line from there. In Colfax the camera goes down afterward so you can see whether it was grease, roots or a broken section.
What homeowners say after the truck pulls out.
"Water heater let go on a Sunday morning and flooded half the basement. Had someone here inside two hours, new tank in by afternoon, and he hauled the old one off. Price was what he said on the phone."
"Called about a leak under the kitchen sink and it turned out to be the dishwasher hose. They told me that, tightened it, and did not charge me for a plumbing repair I did not need."
"Kitchen remodel plumbing, sink and disposal and the dishwasher line. Coordinated with my cabinet guy without me having to run messages between them."
Same crews, same pricing, neighboring areas.