Licensed plumbers serving Swisher and the surrounding IA communities. Emergency calls answered day and night.
Repairs, replacements and installs — pick what you need.
A wet spot in the yard and low pressure inside usually means the service line. We locate it before breaking ground.
No hot water in Swisher? Most units under eight years old are worth repairing and we will tell you when yours is not.
Submersible and jet pump replacement for Swisher area wells, with the pressure set correctly before we go.
That climbing Swisher water bill with nothing running is almost always a leak. We find exactly where before touching the floor.
Hard water, iron staining and sulfur smell are three different problems in Swisher and need three different systems.
A split line can put hundreds of gallons into a Swisher house in an hour. Emergency repair available day or night.
Dripping faucets, worn shower valves and sink or tub fixtures repaired or replaced across Swisher.
Brown water, low pressure and pinhole leaks across a Swisher house mean the pipe, not the fixtures. Repiping fixes it once.
Repeated backups usually mean the line itself, not the drain. The camera shows you the break before any digging.
Twenty-four hour emergency plumbing across Swisher. The damage stops first, then the repair gets done properly.
Gas leaks located and repaired in Swisher, plus new lines run to ranges, dryers, water heaters and grills.
A sump pump that runs constantly or not at all is a flooded Swisher basement waiting on the next heavy rain.
Running, leaking, rocking and clogged toilets in Swisher fixed, or replaced with a fresh flange, wax seal and supply line.
Clogged kitchen, bath, laundry and floor drains in Swisher cleared by cable or hydro jet, then a camera to show why it clogged.
Jammed, humming, leaking and dead disposals in Swisher repaired or replaced, with the drain plumbing corrected too.
Gene Wagner started this company in 1998 with one truck and a licence, and the first customers were neighbors. That is still the shape of the work in a city like Swisher — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Swisher, Iowa tend to be older and further apart, which changes the job. Longer water service runs, more private wells, more frozen pipe calls in January. A plumber who only works new construction is out of his depth here.
The parts of the job that are easy to skip and we do not.
This started as two people and a truck in 1998 and grew on water, sewer and drain work. Nearly three decades in one trade, not a franchise name bought off a shelf last year.
Sewer and drain problems get a camera down the line first, and you see the screen. Nobody trenches a yard on a guess when a fifteen minute look will show the break.
You hear the number before a wrench moves. No hourly meter running while you stand there, and no discovering the real cost after the wall is open.
Softeners and filters get sized off a real water test, not a sales script. Hardness, iron and sulfur are three different problems and they need three different answers.
Told you need a full repipe or a new sewer line? Get it looked at again. Sometimes it is a smaller fix, and sometimes we confirm the first plumber was right so you can spend with confidence.
The questions homeowners ask us most.
Yes. Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Swisher are answered around the clock. The first thing on the phone is getting your main shutoff closed so the house stops taking damage while a truck is on the way.
Yes. Every Swisher job goes to a licensed, insured plumbing contractor who pulls the permits your municipality requires. Licence numbers are on the invoice and available before the truck rolls.
Yes, and it starts with an actual water test rather than a guess. Hardness, iron and sulfur all need different equipment, so the Swisher system gets sized off what is really in your water.
Yes. A Swisher repipe runs room by room so the house never loses water for more than a few hours at a stretch. Old galvanized and polybutylene are the two we replace most.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Swisher leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
For a true emergency in Swisher the target is same-day, and most of the time inside a few hours. Scheduled work like a water heater swap or a fixture set is usually booked within two or three business days.
What homeowners say after the truck pulls out.
"Burst pipe in the crawlspace in January. He had the main off and the section cut out before I finished explaining. Pressure tested it in front of me before he closed it up."
"Sewage backed up into the basement shower on a Friday night. They were out that night, cleared it, and came back Monday with the camera at no extra charge to make sure it was really clear."
"Old cast iron stack was leaking behind the wall. They cut it out and put in new, and were careful about dust with plastic and a fan. That mattered with a baby in the house."
Same crews, same pricing, neighboring areas.