Plumber in Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth is two cities plumbing-wise, and Ernie's works both. There's the historic core — Fairmount, Polytechnic Heights, the South Side — where homes from the 1910s through the 1940s sit on pier-and-beam foundations with the original galvanized supply lines and cast-iron drains still in the ground. Then there's the sprawling newer build-out to the west and north. The problems are completely different, and a plumber who treats them the same gets it wrong.

In the older neighborhoods, galvanized water pipe is the recurring story. After 70-plus years it corrodes from the inside out, choking your water pressure and rusting your water. Cast-iron drain lines of the same vintage develop scale and channeling that leads to recurring backups no amount of snaking permanently fixes. The good news with pier-and-beam is access — we can get under the house and replace failed sections without tearing up a slab, which makes repipes and drain work far less invasive than they'd be on a slab home.

Fort Worth's water comes through the Tarrant Regional Water District and runs around 200 ppm hardness — a touch softer than Dallas but still hard enough to scale a water heater. And the city's western edge is one of the more freeze-exposed parts of the Metroplex; the February 2021 Winter Storm Uri freeze burst pipes across these neighborhoods, especially in under-insulated pier-and-beam crawlspaces and on exterior walls. We still get calls every hard freeze from homeowners who learned that lesson the hard way, and we handle both the emergency repair and the insulation work to keep it from repeating.