How far we go

Homeowners and landlords paying us directly — no hard boundary. Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Howard and Baltimore County and Baltimore City are the ground we cover every day, and the towns below are where you'll see our vans most. But there's no line we refuse to cross: 45 minutes to an hour out from Crofton is routine, and we've gone farther than that when the work made sense. Calvert and Carroll County are the edges — we don't get out there often, but we have. If you're outside the towns listed here, call and ask. We'll give you a straight answer instead of a runaround.

Home warranty claims — Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Howard, Baltimore County and Baltimore City only. This one really is a boundary, and it isn't ours: our contracts with American Home Shield, 2-10, HWA and First American define the territory we're allowed to take claims in. If your house falls outside it, your warranty company will assign a different contractor — that's the system working normally, not us turning you down.

Commercial work — farthest of all, including DC and Northern Virginia. For commercial customers we travel well beyond our residential ground, including into Washington, DC and Northern Virginia. We hold a Maryland master plumber license (#21861); outside Maryland we work under the licensed contractor on the project. If you're a property manager, builder or business owner with work across the line, call and we'll tell you plainly how it would be handled.

If you don't see your town anywhere below, call anyway — (410) 923-0510.

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Towns we're in most

Anne Arundel County: Crofton · Gambrills · Odenton · Millersville · Severna Park · Annapolis · Glen Burnie · Pasadena · Arnold · Severn · Hanover · Crownsville Prince George's County: Bowie · Upper Marlboro · Hyattsville · Laurel · Lanham · Greenbelt · Beltsville · College Park · New Carrollton · Glenarden · Cheverly Howard County: Columbia · Ellicott City · Elkridge Baltimore County & Baltimore City Farther out, case by case: Montgomery, Charles, Calvert, Queen Anne's and Carroll County — less often, but we've worked in all of them. Ask.

Crofton — home base

Crofton is where our shop is, on Crofton Boulevard, so this is the town we get to fastest. Most of Crofton went up from the 1960s through the 1990s, which means we see a very particular set of problems: original galvanized and early copper supply lines reaching the end of their lives, water heaters on their second or third replacement, and main-line clogs where mature trees have found the joints in older laterals. Crofton is in Anne Arundel County, so county permitting and inspection rules apply — we handle that.

Gambrills

Gambrills mixes older properties with newer development, and that split shows up in the plumbing. On the newer side we're mostly doing water heaters, fixtures and drains. On the older side — and on the properties still on well water — we see well tanks, pressure issues, water treatment, and the sediment problems that come with untreated water. Well systems need a plumber who works on them regularly.

Odenton

Odenton has grown fast, and Fort Meade keeps it moving. That means a lot of houses under twenty-five years old, where the first round of original water heaters, sump pumps and shutoff valves is coming due all at once. It also means plenty of homeowners who won't be in the house forever and want a straight answer about repair versus replace. We'll give you one.

Millersville

Millersville runs from established neighborhoods to properties on larger lots, and a good number of them are on wells and septic. That changes the plumbing conversation: pressure tanks, well pumps, water treatment, and being careful about what goes down a drain when it ends at a septic field rather than a sewer main. We used to be based on Cecil Avenue, so this is familiar ground.

Severna Park

Severna Park homes are generally older, larger and better maintained, and the owners tend to want things done properly rather than cheaply — which suits us. Common calls: aging cast-iron drain stacks, whole-house repipes on the oldest properties, water heater replacements where access is tight, and outdoor plumbing for houses that use their yards. The Mayes family's first shop was on Ritchie Highway in Severna Park, back in 1981.

Annapolis

Annapolis is two plumbing towns in one. In and near the historic district you have very old houses, tight access, and work that has to be done carefully in finished space. Outside it you have ordinary suburban plumbing. Waterfront and near-waterfront properties add their own wrinkles — humidity, corrosion, and equipment that lives in damp crawlspaces. We work in both halves.

Glen Burnie

Glen Burnie has a large stock of mid-century houses, and mid-century houses have mid-century plumbing: galvanized supply lines that have narrowed to a straw, cast-iron drains that have scaled shut, and original fixtures well past their span. A lot of our Glen Burnie work is diagnosing whether you have a clog or a pipe that has simply closed up. The camera answers that.

Bowie (Prince George's County)

Bowie is one of the towns we're in most, and it is really two housing stocks. The big Levitt-built sections from the 1960s are now sixty years into their plumbing life — original galvanized supply lines, cast-iron drains that have scaled down, and water heaters on their third or fourth replacement. The newer neighborhoods to the north are hitting their first round of water heater, sump pump and shutoff-valve failures all at once. Bowie is in Prince George's County, so plumbing permits and inspections go through WSSC rather than the county — we know the process and handle it.

Upper Marlboro

Upper Marlboro covers a lot of ground, from subdivisions near the Beltway out to properties on larger lots, and a fair number of those are on wells and septic. That changes the conversation: well pumps and pressure tanks, water treatment, and being careful about what goes down a drain that ends at a septic field. We do a steady volume of water heaters and toilets here for home warranty companies as well.

Hyattsville

Hyattsville and the neighborhoods around it — Riverdale, Mount Rainier, University Park — have some of the oldest houses we work in, many from the 1920s through the 1950s. That means original cast iron, galvanized supply pipe, and drain layouts that predate the modern code. A lot of our work here is honest diagnosis: is this a clog, or a pipe that has simply closed up? The camera answers that, and we'll show you what it sees.

Laurel

Laurel sits where three counties meet, and which side of the line your house is on decides who inspects the work — WSSC for the Prince George's side, the county for the Anne Arundel and Howard sides. We work all three and sort that out for you. The housing runs from mid-century blocks near Main Street to 1980s and 1990s subdivisions, so we see everything from cast-iron stacks to first-generation plastic supply lines.

Lanham, Greenbelt and the Route 450 corridor

Lanham, Seabrook, Glenn Dale, Greenbelt and New Carrollton were built out mostly from the 1950s through the 1970s, and the plumbing is at the age where things fail in clusters — a water heater, then a shutoff valve, then a faucet. We're in this corridor almost daily, largely through home warranty work, so if you're calling through American Home Shield or a similar company, there's a good chance we've already been on your street.

Columbia (Howard County)

Columbia's villages went up largely from the late 1960s onward, so the housing stock is a generation into its plumbing life — water heaters, sump pumps and drain lines are the bulk of what we do there. Howard County enforces a different edition of the plumbing code than Anne Arundel, with its own permit rules, and we work to whichever one your address falls under.