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St. George, NB

One of the larger communities we cover, and the one where no two calls look alike. Older houses in the village with decades of retrofits behind them, and rural properties making their own water. Often both in the same day.

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The Short Version

We read the basement
before we touch the tap

In an older village house the supply lines tell you the history of the building. A length of galvanised steel that came with it. Copper somebody ran in when the kitchen was redone. A stretch of plastic from whoever got there last. Three materials, three eras, joined together and ageing at different rates.

A few minutes out of the village it is a different trade. A drilled well, a pump, a pressure tank, usually a filter, and a septic field out back. Nothing arrives from anywhere — the house makes its own water and handles its own waste. When the pressure drops off in a place like that, the tap is almost never the problem.

Both of those are St. George, and they want two different sets of parts on the truck. Working out which one we have walked into, before anything comes apart, is most of the job.

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Basement photo Overhead supply lines in an older house, ideally showing two or three pipe materials joined together. Landscape, ~1200×1000.

The Mix

Two kinds of house,
one service area

Most towns we cover lean one way or the other. St. George does not.

In the village

Part-replaced, not re-plumbed

Small lots, older housing stock, and plumbing repaired a section at a time by a long line of owners. What we expect to find:

  • Copper joined straight onto galvanised steel corrodes where the two metals meet. The leak shows at the fitting, not in the pipe. A dielectric union between them prevents it.
  • Shut-off valves that have not been turned in twenty years, and either will not move or move once and then weep.
  • Good new pipe fed through an old narrowed section further back, so the pressure never improves no matter what gets replaced.

Leak & pipe repair →

Out on the rural roads

Making their own water

Spread out, on their own well and septic, with a different list of things that go wrong. What we check first:

  • A pump clicking on and off every few seconds is usually a pressure tank that has lost its air charge, not a failing pump. Replacing the wrong one is an expensive way to not fix it.
  • Iron and hardness vary from one drilled well to the next, so two neighbours can need different treatment.
  • St. George is granite country, and ledge close to the surface is worth knowing about before anyone digs a buried line.

Pumps & well systems →

Day To Day

What comes up most here

Six jobs make up most of a St. George week, and each one is here for a reason.

Water heaters

We will tell you whether yours needs a part or a replacement before you spend anything on it.

Frozen and burst lines

The addition and the crawl space go first, because they sit outside the part of the house built to be heated.

Renovations & Additions

Houses asked to do more
than they were built for

A good share of the work here is putting plumbing where there was none. A second bathroom in what used to be a bedroom. An ensuite off a back addition. Laundry brought up out of the basement. The house was built for one bathroom and a kitchen sink, and has been quietly asked to do more ever since.

Two things decide whether that goes smoothly. First, supply — what the existing lines can carry once another fixture hangs off them. Second, venting, and that is the one that gets missed. Every drain needs air behind it or it siphons its own trap dry as it empties. Add a fixture to a line that was never vented for it and you get a toilet that gurgles when the washer drains, a spare shower that smells because its trap dried out, or a sink that glugs instead of running away.

We would rather work that out while the walls are still an option. It costs a conversation now or a wall later.

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What a reno call usually covers

  • Checking what the existing supply can carry before anything opens up
  • Moving or extending hot and cold lines to a new fixture location
  • Drain and vent work for a bathroom or laundry that was not there before
  • Capping off lines from fixtures that are coming out
  • Setting toilets, tubs, showers, sinks and taps once the room is ready
  • Pressure-testing the finished work before the walls close up

Not Only Houses

Small business premises too

In a community this size the shops and small premises sit right alongside the houses, and plenty of them are in buildings that started life as something else. The plumbing behind a public washroom is not the plumbing behind a family bathroom. Fixtures take heavier use, floor drains matter more, and a tank sized for a household will not keep up with a business.

We work on both. Same phone number, same upfront pricing. Tell us what the building actually does and we will size the fix to that rather than to a house.

The Yearly Swing

Winter and spring,
opposite problems

Two times of year make the phone ring hardest, for reasons that are almost exactly reversed.

Winter: lines that freeze

The pipe that freezes is hardly ever the one in the middle of the house. It is the one in the addition, the crawl space or the back porch — the part added on outside the original heated envelope. A line under a floor that used to be an exterior wall has cold on three sides of it.

If one tap runs thin on the coldest morning of the year, that is the warning shot, and it is cheaper to deal with then than after it splits. Emergency call-outs are there for when it does.

Spring: water where you don't want it

Melt and rain lift the ground water, and basements that stayed dry all winter start showing it at the floor drain or the sump.

A sump pump that has sat idle since October will not always start when it is finally needed. Ten minutes testing it in March beats a wet basement in April, and we can look at the floor drain while we are down there.

Nearby

The rest of the county

St. George is one stop on a normal week. Each of these has its own page and its own quirks.

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St. George, NB

Tell us which kind of house you've got

Village lot or back road, we will ask a few questions, tell you what it is likely to cost, and book you in. Licensed, insured, and priced up front before anything comes apart.

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