Leak Detection & Repair in Old Town Georgetown

The oldest plumbing in the city

Old Town Georgetown wraps around the historic limestone courthouse square, one the state counts among the most beautiful in Texas, and its homes are some of the oldest in the city. Many date to the Victorian era and the decades after, which means they carry the oldest plumbing in Georgetown: galvanized steel supply lines and cast-iron or clay sewer laterals that have been in the ground for generations.

Those materials age in predictable ways, and that history shapes every Old Town call. We come in expecting old pipe and read each home on its own terms rather than assuming modern plumbing behind the walls.

How historic plumbing fails

Galvanized supply pipe rusts from the inside over the decades, choking pressure and eventually rusting through at the threads, which is why an Old Town home can have weak flow and weeping joints at the same time. Cast-iron and clay sewer laterals crack, scale, and invite tree roots, common under the mature lots near the square. And a number of these older homes sit on pier-and-beam foundations with a crawl space below, where an under-floor leak can run unseen for a long time.

Each of those is a distinct repair, and telling them apart in an old home is most of the work.

Limestone, mature trees, and old laterals

The ground under Old Town is shallow limestone, with mature trees lining the historic streets. Those roots chase moisture into the smallest crack in an aging clay or cast-iron sewer line, which makes root intrusion a frequent cause of Old Town sewer trouble. A camera inspection is the honest way to see the real condition of a lateral that has been underground for a century.

Where galvanized supply has rusted along its length, a single repair often just moves the next leak down the line, so we will be straight about when a repipe makes more sense than another patch.

Care for a historic home

Working on an old home means respecting it. We locate leaks precisely before opening anything, so a repair touches as little of the original structure as possible, and we camera the old sewer and drain lines rather than guessing at their condition. When we find galvanized or cast iron near the end of its life, we tell you plainly, with the evidence, so you can plan rather than be surprised.

If your Old Town home has rusty water, fading pressure, a sewer smell in the yard, or a soft floor over a crawl space, those are the signs its historic plumbing needs a look.

Preserving what makes these homes special

An Old Town home is often as much a piece of Georgetown's history as a place to live, and that calls for restraint. We work to disturb as little of the original fabric as possible, locating the leak precisely so a repair means one small opening rather than torn-out plaster and lifted floors in a home that cannot easily be put back.

That care is the whole point of detection-first work in a historic house. The leak gets fixed, and the character that makes the home worth owning stays intact.