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The pipe bringing water from the meter to your house. When it fails you see it in the yard, in the pressure, or on the bill.
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Your main water line runs from the meter at the street to the point it enters your house. It is buried, so nothing about its failure is obvious until it is. Most people find out through a soggy patch of lawn that will not dry, water pressure that has quietly dropped off, or a bill that jumped for no reason anyone can explain.
Older Clark County homes often still run galvanized steel or early plastic supply lines. Both corrode or become brittle with age. Once a main line starts failing it rarely gets better, and every day it leaks is water you are paying for and soil you are washing out from under something.
Soggy ground or unusually green grass in a line across the yard, with no sprinkler to explain it.
A gradual fall in pressure across the whole house, rather than at one fixture, usually points at the supply.
A buried leak runs continuously. It shows on the bill long before it shows on the surface.
Old galvanized supply lines shed rust as they corrode from the inside out.
Shut everything off and watch the meter. If it is still turning, water is going somewhere.
Escaping water carries soil away, and the ground above eventually drops.
A repair can be right when the line is otherwise sound and the damage is in one identifiable spot, for instance where something was driven over it or a root pushed into a joint.
Replacement is usually right when the pipe is old galvanized steel, when it has already been patched once or twice, or when the failure is corrosion rather than damage. Corrosion is not local. Patching one hole in a pipe that is failing along its length buys you months, not years.
We will tell you which one you are looking at, and we will not sell you a replacement for a line that has years left in it.
Describe what you are seeing: the wet patch, the pressure, the bill.
We find the line and confirm where it is failing before digging anything.
Repair or replacement, with the reasoning and the number.
Excavated or trenchless depending on the run, then pressure tested.
Backfilled properly and the ground put back.
How do I know the leak is the main line and not a pipe inside the house?
Turn off every tap and appliance, then look at the water meter. If it is still moving, water is escaping somewhere between the meter and the house. A wet patch in the yard confirms it.
Do you have to dig up the whole yard?
Not always. Depending on the run and what is above it, a trenchless replacement can pull a new line through with far less excavation. Where the route makes that impractical we trench it, and we put the ground back.
How long does it take?
Most residential water line replacements are a one to two day job, longer if the run is unusually long or there is hard surface to work around.
Who is responsible, me or the water company?
Generally the utility owns the line up to the meter, and everything from the meter to the house is the homeowner. That is the section we replace.
What pipe do you use?
Modern water service material rather than galvanized steel, which is what is failing in most of the older homes around here.
Do you charge for an estimate?
No. We give free estimates on all jobs.
Do you warranty your work?
Yes. Every job carries at least a one year warranty on our labor. On a main water service line replacement we can go further than that: a lifetime warranty is available as a paid upgrade. Ask about it when we quote the job and we will tell you what it adds.
Do you offer financing?
Yes. We offer financing through Affirm. The invoice we send you carries an option to pay over time instead of all at once, and Affirm sets the terms. Useful when a repair or a replacement arrives unplanned, which is usually how they arrive.
Do you have to dig up the whole yard to find the leak?
Usually not. We use pipe locating equipment to trace the run of the line and narrow down where it is losing water, so the digging happens where the problem is rather than along the entire route.
Tell us what is going on and we will get back to you. Prefer to talk? Call or text (360) 949-2330.
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