Recent Plumbing Work Around Hamilton
Photos from Rossville Plumbing’s own jobs: new fixtures, copper and PEX supply lines, drains and the old pipe found behind a wall.
Most of the work is in single-family houses and rental units, with some small shops and offices, and the photos show that mix: a kitchen, a shower, a few basements, a laundry wall and one commercial floor.
Whatever the job, the routine inside the house stays the same. Drop cloths go down first, and the work area is swept and wiped when the job is finished, so what is left behind is the new work.
Installations and Replacements
These are the planned jobs: a new fixture where an old one stood, a pot filler over the range, a shower valve set at the right depth before the tile goes up, or worn supply lines replaced with copper or PEX and fitted with shutoffs where the house never had them. The work involves shutting off and draining the lines, making every joint, and checking each one for leaks before the walls close or the fixture goes into use, and the last photo shows where a bathroom job begins, with the old fixtures on their way out.
Drains and Sewers
Most drain calls are clogs cleared with a cable machine and sewer lines checked with a camera, which leave little to photograph. These two show new drain work instead: a laundry standpipe roughed in at the right height with its own trap and supply valves, and a sump pit set into a new basement floor, with a drainage membrane along the stone walls to guide seepage down to the pit.
Repairs
Repairs often start with opening a wall, and in an older house that can expose cast-iron drain stacks and galvanized water lines that have been in place for generations, along with shutoff valves worn past turning. If something unexpected turns up once the wall is open, Nixon Bowen calls the customer before going further.
The Smaller Calls That Leave Little to Photograph
Most calls are smaller than any of these jobs: a worn flapper, a corroded trap, a clog a few feet down the line. Those visits end with a part replaced or a line cleared, and the finished work looks like nothing happened, which is the point.
Water heater repair and replacement is the same: a new tank looks much like the old one once it is in place. What that work involves, from a relief valve that drips to a tank leaking at the base, is set out under Water Heaters.
Inspection work, such as a sewer camera run before a backup or a look at the valves and supply lines before one of them fails, leaves even less to show. It is described under Maintenance & Inspections.
Have a job like one of these in mind?