Licensed plumbers serving Forest City and the surrounding IA communities. Emergency calls answered day and night.
The full range of residential plumbing, water and sewer work.
If you smell gas in Forest City, get out and call. Leak location and repair handled by a licensed contractor.
Hidden leaks under slabs, inside walls and out in the yard, found with pressure tests and listening gear before anything is opened.
Sump pump repair, replacement and battery backup in Forest City so the basement stays dry when the power goes with the storm.
Grease, roots or a broken section — the Forest City drain gets cleared and you find out which one it was.
Full water service replacement in Forest City with the trench backfilled and the sod set back down properly.
Gas, electric and tankless water heaters repaired or replaced in Forest City, including elements, thermostats, valves and anode rods.
No pressure, short cycling or a pump that will not shut off near Forest City — usually the switch or a waterlogged tank.
Failing galvanized, polybutylene and corroded copper in Forest City replaced with new copper or PEX, room by room.
A split line can put hundreds of gallons into a Forest City house in an hour. Emergency repair available day or night.
Softeners, filtration and treatment for Forest City homes, sized off an actual water test rather than a sales script.
Jammed, humming, leaking and dead disposals in Forest City repaired or replaced, with the drain plumbing corrected too.
Root intrusion, bellied lines and collapsed clay pipe under Forest City yards repaired with the lawn put back right.
Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Forest City answered around the clock, starting with getting your main shutoff closed.
Dripping faucets, worn shower valves and sink or tub fixtures repaired or replaced across Forest City.
New toilet installation in Forest City including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
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 Forest City — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Forest City, 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.
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.
Drop cloths go down, cuts get made clean so the patch is easy, and the old tank or fixture leaves with the truck. The room should look better than we found it.
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.
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.
What you probably want to know before you book.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Forest City leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
Under about eight years old with a bad element, thermostat or valve, repair is usually the better money in Forest City. Past twelve years, or if the tank itself is weeping, replacement is the honest answer and we will say so.
You get a price for the repair before any work starts, not an hourly meter that runs while you watch. The diagnostic visit in Forest City is quoted up front on the phone, and if you approve the repair that visit charge goes toward the job.
Yes, and it starts with an actual water test rather than a guess. Hardness, iron and sulfur all need different equipment, so the Forest City system gets sized off what is really in your water.
Yes. Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Forest City 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.
A camera goes down the line first so you can see the break and how deep it is. Where the depth and the yard allow it, a Forest City sewer repair can be done trenchless and leave most of the lawn alone.
The work speaks, but so do the people who paid for it.
"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."
"Two toilets running constantly. Rebuilt both in under an hour and did not try to sell me new ones. Honest people are hard to find in this trade."
"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."
Same crews, same pricing, neighboring areas.