Reliable Plumbing Solutions in Houston
With over 45 years of experience, we provide fast, reliable, and professional plumbing services you can count on.
Expert Plumbing & HVAC Solutions
Comprehensive services to keep your home or business running smoothly. From emergency repairs to preventive maintenance, we’ve got you covered.
From leaky faucets to full repipes, our certified plumbers provide reliable solutions for your home. We handle everything from routine maintenance to emergency repairs with precision and care.
- Water Heater Services
- Drain Cleaning
- Whole Home Repipe & Repairs
- Leak Repair
Keep your business flowing with our commercial plumbing services. We minimize downtime with efficient solutions for restaurants, offices, and industrial facilities.
- Plumbing Repair
- Plumbing Installation
- Drain Cleaning
- Sewer Lines
Houston's Most Recognized Plumbing Company
Since 1979, Nick’s Plumbing has been Houston’s most dependable name for quality plumbing and HVAC services. Our family-owned business takes pride in treating every customer like a neighbor, because that’s exactly what you are.
45+ Years
Of proven service
50,000+
Satisfied customers
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- Flexible Financing Options
We offer flexible financing solutions to help you get the plumbing service you need without financial stress.
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- Low monthly payments
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- No hidden fees
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Join our VIP maintenance program and enjoy priority service and peace of mind knowing your plumbing is in good hands.
- Priority scheduling
- 10% discount on all services
- Annual plumbing inspections
- Unlimited free visits
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Any Plumbing Service
Nick’s Main Line Drain Cleaning – Just $79!
- Annual Plan
Our $79 Main Line Drain Cleaning offer applies to residential services only. This special price covers main sewer line clogs that can be accessed through a ground-level, code-approved cleanout. Other Exclusions apply. Call for details.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to common questions about our plumbing services.
What Can Go Wrong with My Sewer Lines?
Everything that goes into our sink, shower, and tub drains, our toilets, and our garbage disposals will find its way to your sewer line. We get hair, shampoo, soap, toothpaste, and whatever awfulness ends up in the toilet from our bathrooms. Our kitchens contribute to the condition by introducing cooking grease, chicken bones, pasta, rice, and everything else that gets stuffed into our garbage disposals.
Since the first rule of plumbing is “water heads downhill,” it isn’t surprising that our drain and sewer lines become clogged. Just a little preventive maintenance like scraping plates into the trash before rinsing them or not pouring hot bacon grease into your drain. Have you ever seen cold bacon grease? Why would you do that to your plumbing?
Try using a do-it-yourself drain cleaning method, like baking soda and vinegar, or using a biologic-based drain cleaner every few weeks. These enzymatic drain cleaners use bacteria to eat away at any organic debris in your pipes, instead of dangerous chemical-based cleaners.
How Much Does It Cost to Replace A Sewer Line?
Every sewer line replacement job is different, and its overall cost depends on variables like the length of your sewer line and how much of it requires replacement. For just the line’s replacement, expect to pay somewhere between $55 and $95 per foot of the installed pipe. Other factors that play into the cost of sewer line replacement are excavation costs to gain access to the sewer line, replacement of landscaping, and the backfilling of necessary trenchwork.
For a complete “house to street” sewer line replacement, the average homeowner is looking at a bill from $4,000 up to $25,000 and beyond.
Does Homeowner’s Insurance Cover Sewer Line Repair or Replacement?
Standard homeowner’s insurance policies rarely, if ever, include any repairs or replacement of sewer lines. Naturally, an entire industry has sprung up to service that niche with secondary insurance policies covering sewer line-related expenses. A casual search of the internet showed at least a half-dozen companies offering supplemental sewer line insurance, with an average cost of around $20 per month for $5,000 per year of benefits.
As with any insurance policy you purchase, go over the fine print, and make sure that all expenses pertinent to sewer line repair and replacement are covered. Some unhappy sewer line insurance customers complain in their reviews about additional excavation costs or pavement restorations that had to be paid out of pocket.
What If My Sewer Line is Beneath a Slab?
Although pier and beam foundations were the gold standard in Houston for decades, and as more planned communities are built, more and more Houston homes sit atop concrete slabs. Beneath all these slabs is much of the plumbing for our water supply lines and drainpipes. When a leak occurs in one of these under slab pipes, a lot of soil-shifting occurs, which can cause the foundation of your home to move as well.
Under-slab leaks from both water supply and drain or sewer lines can create a host of problems if left unabated. Cracked patios, doors that are difficult to open and close, drywall cracks, sloped, and squeaky floorboards are all signs that water is leaking beneath your slab.
Leaking pipes beneath your slab should not be ignored and need to be corrected as quickly as possible to prevent catastrophic foundation damage. Gaining access to the lines beneath the slab will require some degree of excavation to be done. Fortunately, in the last few years, an alternative to massive excavation to repair sewer lines has become increasingly available, the CIPP (Cured in Place Pipe) or trenchless method.
What is Trenchless Sewer Line Repair?
Developed for commercial use during the 1940s, cured-in-place pipe essentially creates a new lining inside your existing pipe. While the practice has existed for decades, it wasn’t practical for plumbers that lacked video camera-equipped snakes to help identify breaks or blockages in the line.
The CIPP (cured-in-place pipe) method uses a felt tube that runs the entire length of your original sewer line, after being soaked in an epoxy that allows the fabric to harden as it dries. Once the felt tube is snaked into place, hot air is forced into the new lining to expand it to fit the pipe walls and hasten the curing process. Once the installation equipment is removed, the access hole is filled in, and the customer has a new sewer lining that will last for decades.
What Is A Sewer Belly?
Okay, let’s get the jokes out of the way. Sewer bellies are not the result of overfeeding your sink, or from eating too many sewers.
Sewer bellies occur when the soil beneath the sewer line erodes or is washed away. The pipe area that is no longer supported by the earth begins to sag, creating “low spots” where wastewater and other sediment collects. Bellied sewer pipes are more likely to leak, as the line’s movement creates stress cracks in the fittings between pipe segments.
Sewer lines that have experienced bellying need to be repaired or replaced by a licensed plumbing technician.
Nick’s employs only the most experienced, thoroughly background checked and licensed plumbers that Houston has to offer. Sewer line repair and replacement have been a staple of services Nick’s has been providing since 1979.
Think you have a leaky sewer line? Give Nick’s Plumbing Service a call today for a cost evaluation or second opinion on your clogged sewer line, slab leak detection, or trenchless sewer line repair.
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