Plumber in Seminole Heights, Tampa

Know your house

Plumbing in a 100-year-old bungalow

Many Seminole Heights homes were built in the 1910s and 1920s. Charming, but the pipes under them have been working for a century. Here’s what we find most often:

• Cast iron and clay sewer lines that crack, scale up and let roots in from the neighborhood’s big oaks
• Galvanized water pipe that rusts from the inside, causing low pressure and brown water
• Mixed pipe from past remodels — old and new materials patched together over the years
• Old shutoff valves that won’t close when you need them most

Roots pulled from a Tampa sewer cleanout. In older neighborhoods with mature trees, roots are the most common cause of repeat backups.