A split pipe empties a lot of water fast. We tell you on the phone how to shut it off, then cut out the damaged section, fit new copper and pressure-test the run before we leave.

Standing water in the sink means the trap or the line behind it is packed. We clear it with a cable, check the run with a camera and leave it running free.

When every drain in the house backs up at once, the blockage is in the main line. We clear it from the clean-out and send a camera down so you can see what caused it.

Nine times in ten it's the thermocouple or the pilot. We carry both on every van, for every common tank, and have the water hot again in about an hour.

A new 50-gallon gas water heater, fitted, connected and tested, with the old tank taken away. Most fit the same day we look at the old one.

One drip a second wastes about 3,000 gallons a year. The cure is usually a $14 cartridge and twenty minutes, and the tap works like new.

That hiss is water slipping past a worn flapper, all day. A new one seats properly and the tank fills, then stops.