Plumbing services for Fraser and south Macomb County

Plumbing services in Fraser, MI, sorted by how urgent they are

Some plumbing problems get worse by the minute and some can sit until next week. Water spraying from a pipe, sewage rising through a basement floor drain, a water heater leaking from the tank or a house with no water at all are calls to make now. Shut the main off first if water is spreading, then call. A dripping faucet, a slow bathroom sink, a running toilet or a disposal that hums can be booked for a normal visit, though a running toilet quietly wastes a lot of water while it waits.

Bigger projects sit in their own category. Replacing a water heater, switching to tankless, repiping a house with old galvanized lines, replacing a sewer lateral or running a new gas line are planned jobs. They need sizing decisions, materials chosen for the house, and in Michigan a permit and an inspection.

What Michigan permits mean for your project

Michigan treats water heater replacement, repiping, new fixtures in new locations, sewer work and gas piping as permitted work. In Fraser, permits go through the city's building department, and an inspector checks the work before it's closed up. For a water heater that means the relief valve discharge, the venting on a gas unit, the gas connection and how the water lines are connected. Ask any plumber you hire who pulls the permit and when the inspection happens. If the answer is vague, that tells you something.

How to pick the right service from this list

Start with the symptom, not the fix. Several slow drains at once point to the main line, so start with drain cleaning and clog removal or a sewer camera inspection. Rusty water from every tap points at the pipes, not one faucet. A wet basement after a storm may be a sump pump problem or a sewer backup, and those are fixed differently. If you can't tell, describe it on the phone and we'll tell you which visit makes sense.