Gene's Plumbing handles emergency plumbing across Forest Hill and the surrounding area — licensed, insured and available for emergencies.
Burst supply lines, sewage coming up a floor drain and a water heater that let go are the three calls that cannot wait until Monday in Forest Hill. All three are answered the same night.
Every house handles emergency plumbing a little differently depending on its age, and Forest Hill has plenty of both old and new. The fitting, the pipe material and the way the last plumber left it all change what the right repair is.
That is why the Forest Hill truck carries parts for more than one era of plumbing. The emergency plumbing job gets finished on the first visit wherever it can be, because a second trip costs you a day and costs us the trust.
The order we work in, and why.
Tell us what you are seeing, hearing or smelling. If water is actively running into the house, you get walked to your main shutoff before anything else is discussed.
Finding the real cause is what keeps the repair small. Opening one square foot of wall instead of twenty starts with knowing exactly where to open it.
If there is a cheaper option that will actually hold, you hear about it. If the cheap option is a patch that fails in six months, you hear that too.
The repair gets made with proper materials, pressure tested where the job allows, and checked in front of you before anything is closed back up.
Common questions, answered plainly.
It depends on what the diagnosis turns up, which is why you get a firm price for your emergency plumbing job in Forest Hill before any work starts rather than an hourly rate that runs while you wait.
You get a straight answer on that. Plenty of Forest Hill customers are told their emergency plumbing situation can reasonably wait a season, and plenty are told it cannot. The diagnosis decides it, not the sales value.
Drop cloths go down before anything starts, cuts are made as small and as clean as the emergency plumbing job allows, and everything removed leaves with the truck when the Forest Hill work is done.
If the situation is urgent, yes — Forest Hill emergency calls are answered day and night, and the first priority is stopping the water before the emergency plumbing repair is started.
Real reviews from real service calls.
"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."
"Good work on the sewer line, camera first so I could see the root ball myself. Took a day longer than quoted because of the rain, but they called me both mornings instead of leaving me guessing."
"Sump pump died the week before a big storm. New pump and a battery backup installed in one visit. Power went out during the storm and the basement stayed dry."