Plumbing repairs and installs throughout Ovid, MI — licensed, insured, and straight with you about what it needs.
Everything from a dripping faucet to a new main water line.
Hidden leaks under slabs, inside walls and out in the yard, found with pressure tests and listening gear before anything is opened.
Softeners, filtration and treatment for Ovid homes, sized off an actual water test rather than a sales script.
Repeated backups usually mean the line itself, not the drain. The camera shows you the break before any digging.
Primary pump plus battery backup installed in Ovid, tested by filling the pit before we leave.
Gas, electric and tankless water heaters repaired or replaced in Ovid, including elements, thermostats, valves and anode rods.
Slow drains get cleared through an existing cleanout, no floor cut. You see the camera screen afterward.
A dripping shower usually needs a cartridge, not a wall opened up. We try the smaller fix first in Ovid.
Brown water, low pressure and pinhole leaks across a Ovid house mean the pipe, not the fixtures. Repiping fixes it once.
No pressure, short cycling or a pump that will not shut off near Ovid — usually the switch or a waterlogged tank.
Full water service replacement in Ovid with the trench backfilled and the sod set back down properly.
Jammed, humming, leaking and dead disposals in Ovid repaired or replaced, with the drain plumbing corrected too.
Frozen pipe repair plus insulation on that run so the same section does not split again next winter.
New toilet installation in Ovid including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
Twenty-four hour emergency plumbing across Ovid. The damage stops first, then the repair gets done properly.
Gas leaks located and repaired in Ovid, plus new lines run to ranges, dryers, water heaters and grills.
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 Ovid — you show up, you do it right, and the next call comes from the person next door.
Homes around Ovid, Michigan 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.
What you actually get when you call us.
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.
Drop cloths go down, cuts get made clean so the patch is easy, and the old tank or fixture leaves with the truck. The room should look better than we found it.
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.
What you probably want to know before you book.
Yes, and it starts with an actual water test rather than a guess. Hardness, iron and sulfur all need different equipment, so the Ovid system gets sized off what is really in your water.
You get a price for the repair before any work starts, not an hourly meter that runs while you watch. The diagnostic visit in Ovid is quoted up front on the phone, and if you approve the repair that visit charge goes toward the job.
For a true emergency in Ovid 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.
Yes. Every Ovid 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.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Ovid leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
A camera goes down the line first so you can see the break and how deep it is. Where the depth and the yard allow it, a Ovid sewer repair can be done trenchless and leave most of the lawn alone.
The work speaks, but so do the people who paid for it.
"Water heater let go on a Sunday morning and flooded half the basement. Had someone here inside two hours, new tank in by afternoon, and he hauled the old one off. Price was what he said on the phone."
"Kitchen drain had been slow for a year. Ran the cable, then put a camera down and showed me the grease ring on his screen. Explained what to stop pouring down it. Has not backed up since."
"Solid water heater install. Price fair, work clean. Would have liked a little more warning on the arrival time, but the job itself was right."
We cover the surrounding towns too.