Plumber in Moodys, OK

The median Moodys home was built around 1978, which is older than anywhere else we work. At that age you find galvanized steel water pipe rusting shut from the inside, so the pressure in the shower drops year after year until one day it is a trickle. You find cast-iron and early plastic drains, cleanouts that were never installed, and supply lines patched with three kinds of fitting. When the repairs start outrunning the pipe, we will tell you that repiping a section is cheaper than another year of leaks.

Well over a quarter of Moodys homes heat with wood and only about one in seven has piped gas. Two things follow from that. Water heaters are usually electric, so we deal with failed elements and thermostats and tanks that pop and rumble with sediment. And the houses are built to be cold underneath, so winter breaks happen in crawl spaces and under floors, not in walls.

Nearly one housing unit in five in Cherokee County is a mobile home, and there are plenty here. Mobile-home plumbing is its own trade: cross-over lines under the floor that freeze first, plastic drain fittings that will not take a cable without care, non-standard tub and toilet spacing, and skirting that has to come off before anyone can reach the work. We would rather do it right the first time than break a fitting hurrying.

Most homes here are on a well or a small rural line, and everything drains to a septic system. So the call we get most in Moodys is a main line that backs up at the lowest drain because the septic tank is full, not because the line is dirty. The other one is a pump that clicks on and off every few seconds, and that is the well system rather than the house plumbing. We don't work on wells — Oklahoma licenses well and pump work separately — so the pump and the pressure tank go to a licensed pump installer. From where the line enters the house, it is ours.