Swift Smooth Service – Just a Call Away
Serving Charleston & the Lowcountry · Open 24 Hours
Swift Smooth Service – Just a Call Away
Serving Charleston & the Lowcountry · Open 24 Hours
Historic homes, modern plumbing. Licensed Lowcountry plumbers who know the peninsula — from Wagener Terrace to South of Broad.
Peninsula homes built before the 1960s were commonly plumbed with galvanised steel supply lines and cast iron drain lines. A great many are still running on the originals — pipe installed 60 to 70 years ago, now at or past the end of its service life.
That changes what goes wrong, and what the right fix is. It also changes what does not matter here: Charleston Water System delivers moderately soft water at roughly 3.4 grains per gallon (58.4 ppm), so scale is not the enemy downtown. Corrosion and age are.
Commonly fail between 40 and 60 years. Internal corrosion restricts flow, drops pressure and can leach into the water supply.
Typical of homes built before the 1970s and generally good for 50 to 75 years. A sewer camera inspection tells you where yours actually is.
At 3.4 grains per gallon the water itself is gentle. What ages is the pipe carrying it, which is why repiping rather than softening is the downtown conversation.
Usually, no. If your property sits in the Historic District, the Board of Architectural Review issues a Certificate of Appropriateness for exterior work — and that step comes before you can pull a building permit.
Interior work is treated differently. Bathroom upgrades, fixture replacement and repiping generally do not require BAR approval, provided the exterior appearance of the property is unchanged.
A plumbing permit is still required for new plumbing, repipes, water heaters, fixtures and gas piping, and that work must be carried out by a South Carolina licensed plumbing contractor. We handle the permitting so you are not guessing at it.
South of Broad · Harleston Village · Ansonborough · Wagener Terrace · Hampton Park · East Side · West Side · Downtown Charleston
We also work the surrounding area, including newer construction in Cainhoy and Carolina Bay, where the plumbing story is very different from the peninsula.
