Plumbing in Fort Worth, TX

Counting bathrooms is a useful thing to do before you buy an older house here, and it is close to the first question we ask on a drain call in this part of town. In a streetcar-suburb house in Fairmount, Ryan Place, or Mistletoe Heights, the bathrooms are often not all the same age. We find one that is original to the house and one or two that went in later, by different hands in different decades, each of them tied into a drain and vent system that was already in place and was never drawn with them in mind.

That history is usually what we are looking at when one fixture in an old Fort Worth house misbehaves and the rest of the house is fine. A tub that empties slowly, a sink that gurgles when the toilet flushes, a drain that backs up only when two fixtures run at once: those point at venting and routing, not at a clog, and snaking the fixture clears the day rather than the problem. So on these houses we trace where the added bathroom ties in and how it is vented before anyone starts pulling a drain apart. Getting to any of it takes patience on a pier-and-beam house, where the run sits in a crawl space you can barely turn around in and the walls and ceilings overhead are original plaster.

Out on the north and west sides the picture flips. Those homes were drained and vented all at once to a single plan, so the layout is orderly and a slow drain there usually is what it appears to be. Which of those two houses we are standing in decides how we spend the first hour of the visit, and that is why we ask about the bathrooms before we ask about the symptom.

We take care of homes across Fort Worth, from Fairmount, Ryan Place, and Mistletoe Heights near the center to Arlington Heights, Rivercrest, Tanglewood, Wedgwood, and Como, along with the newer subdivisions on the north and west sides. Because we run out of Flower Mound, we also help neighbors in the cities that border Fort Worth, including Keller, Saginaw, Haltom City, North Richland Hills, Benbrook, and White Settlement.