Plumbing Repairs in Austin, TX

Plumbing repair and installation services

Plumbing service calls typically start with an inspection and diagnosis. After the issue is identified, options are provided based on the repair location, accessibility, and the condition of the related piping/fixtures. What we do specifically:

• Plumbing repairs: leaks, clogs, fixture problems, water pressure concerns, and pipe issues.
• Kitchen plumbing: sinks, faucets, garbage disposals, dishwashers, refrigerator water lines, and drain issues.
• Bathroom plumbing: toilets, showers, tubs, faucets, drain issues, and supply-line repairs.
• Drain cleaning: clearing clogs and restoring drainage in sinks, tubs/showers, floor drains, and main lines.
• Sewer lines: inspection, repair, replacement, and backup-related service.
• Water leak detection: locating leaks when water damage is visible but the source is unclear.
• Slab leak repair: detection and repair for leaks beneath slab foundations.
• Trenchless options: pipe lining or pipe bursting in qualifying sewer/drain situations.
• Water heaters: repair, maintenance, and replacement for tank and tankless systems.
• Water softeners/filtration: install and service support for whole-home water treatment equipment.
• Gas lines: plumbing services related to gas line repair, inspection, and installation.
• Commercial plumbing: maintenance, repair, and plumbing upgrades for offices, retail, and other facilities.

These above are some of our plumbing services. If you don’t see your issue in the list – call us and find out, we may still be offering it!

When it can’t wait

Active leaks, sewer backups, no hot water with a full house. Those aren’t wait-until-Monday problems. We have 24/7 emergency support and someone answers live at any hour, not a voicemail, not a callback queue.   If water is actively going somewhere it shouldn’t while you wait: shut off the fixture valve if you can reach it safely. If that doesn’t stop it, the main shutoff is your next move. Water near electrical outlets or equipment, don’t touch anything electrical until the water situation is handled.

What a service visit looks like

We diagnose before we recommend. That’s not a policy we advertise, it’s just how the work goes. Identify the affected line or fixture, confirm what’s actually happening, test where needed. Guessing at plumbing repairs is how you end up fixing the wrong thing. Upfront estimate before work starts. Always. After the repair, we test water flow, drainage, temperature, and check for leaks before we consider the job done. The work area gets cleaned up. If there’s something to monitor afterward, we say so before we leave. Not in a disclaimer, just as part of wrapping up.

Drain cleaning, hydro jetting, and sewer cleaning

Slow drains don’t fix themselves. A sink that takes twenty seconds to drain is telling you something, and waiting on it usually means a full clog eventually, sometimes at the worst possible time. We clear drains in sinks, tubs, showers, floor drains, and main lines. For tougher blockages, hydro jetting uses high-pressure water to cut through grease buildup, mineral deposits, and debris that standard drain cleaning can’t fully clear. It’s more thorough than snaking and leaves the pipe walls cleaner, not just punched through. In Austin’s hard water environment, mineral buildup inside drain lines is more common than people expect, and hydro jetting handles that in a way that slower methods don’t. Sewer lines get their own category because the consequences of ignoring them are bigger. Tree roots, grease accumulation, pipe deterioration, partial blockages that back up during heavy use. Sewer cleaning clears the line. Camera inspection shows you what’s actually in there.

Sewer camera inspections

A lot of sewer problems aren’t obvious from the surface. Slow drainage that keeps coming back. Backups without a clear cause. A line that gets cleaned and then clogs again six months later. Camera inspection puts a lens inside the pipe so we’re looking at actual pipe condition, not guessing at it. It’s also worth doing before buying an older home in Austin. Foundation movement here is real, and pipes under a slab that’s shifted over twenty or thirty years can have damage that doesn’t show any symptoms yet. Knowing what’s there before you close is a different conversation than finding out two years later.

Hard water. Austin has it.

The City of Austin’s water quality reports put local hardness in the USGS moderately hard range. What that means day-to-day is dissolved calcium and magnesium slowly working through your pipes, water heater, and fixtures. Scale builds inside tank water heaters. Flow reduces in older pipes. Appliances that use water regularly wear faster than they would somewhere with softer water. Nobody notices it happening. It’s gradual enough that most people assume that’s just how things work until a water heater starts underperforming well before it should or a fixture that worked fine last year suddenly doesn’t. Water softeners and filtration systems reduce that buildup over time. Not a dramatic fix. More like maintenance for your plumbing infrastructure, the same way you’d maintain anything else that runs constantly in the background.

Water heaters

Hot water that runs out faster than it used to. Recovery time that keeps getting longer. Temperature that isn’t quite right. Those are the calls we get most often. A service visit covers heating components, temperature and pressure relief, venting where applicable, and sediment or scale buildup. In Austin’s water conditions, sediment accumulation in tank systems is common enough that we see it on most older units. Sometimes a flush handles it. Sometimes the unit has run its course and the honest answer is replacement. We’ll tell you which one you’re actually looking at, not which one costs more. Tankless systems have their own failure patterns, different from tank systems but just as predictable once you’ve seen enough of them. We service both.

Leak detection and slab leaks

Water damage you can see but can’t explain is usually a slow leak that’s been going on longer than you’d want to know. Moisture at a baseboard. A soft spot in flooring. A water bill that climbed without obvious reason. By the time any of those show up, the source has had time to cause real damage. Detection tools let us locate leaks behind walls, under floors, and below slabs without tearing into everything on a hunch. That matters a lot when the alternative is opening up drywall in three different places hoping to find it. Slab leaks specifically. Austin’s soil moves seasonally, more than most people realize, and that movement stresses the pipes running under a foundation over years. Not every slab leak is dramatic. Some show up as a warm spot on the floor or a water bill that’s twenty dollars higher than normal for months before anyone investigates.

Trenchless sewer repair

When it qualifies, trenchless sewer work means less digging. Cured-in-place pipe lining forms a new pipe inside the existing one. Pipe bursting pulls new pipe through while fracturing the old one outward. Whether either option works depends on pipe condition, access, and what kind of damage is present. Not every situation qualifies and we won’t pretend otherwise. Traditional excavation is still the right answer sometimes.

One company for plumbing and HVAC

Coordinating two separate companies for work in the same house on the same week is its own kind of headache. Champion handles air conditioning, heating, and plumbing. One location, one phone number, one company that knows your house. Where we work Austin, Round Rock, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Buda, Kyle, Lakeway, Leander, Georgetown, and surrounding areas. Call (512) 575-4377, live answering around the clock. Online scheduling also available.