Miami & Miami-Dade

Plumbing Help for Miami Houses and Condos

One call reaches a local plumbing company that covers your part of Miami. No charge to use this site, and straight answers about cast iron, condos and cost.

If water is running where it should not be, close the main shutoff before anything else: in most Miami houses it is a valve where the supply pipe enters the wall, or the customer valve in the meter box near the street. In a condo, look for the unit valve in the water heater closet or under the kitchen sink. Then switch the water heater off at the breaker, and then call.

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Find the shutoff todayBefore there is a leak. Meter box, wall valve or condo closet: know which one is yours.

Cast iron fails early hereHeat, humidity and corrosion shorten its life in South Florida well below the textbook figure.

Condo? Check the declarationIt decides which pipes are the unit owner’s and which are the association’s.

What Miami plumbing companies generally charge

A routine visit to clear a sink or replace a fixture usually lands between $150 and $450 here. A main-line clog runs higher, and a cast-iron line under a slab is a different scale of job, often five figures. The cost guide breaks down what moves each number.

Read the Miami plumbing cost guide.

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Why Miami plumbing fails the way it does

Most of the advice online assumes a house with a basement, frozen pipes in January and a sewer line in clay soil. Miami has none of those. Houses sit on concrete slabs over limestone and sand, a few feet above a water table that rises with the tide and the rainy season. The drain lines run inside or under that slab, so a failing pipe is a concrete-cutting job rather than a crawlspace job.

The city's housing also ages in layers. Shenandoah and parts of Little Havana were built out in the 1920s. Large parts of the city filled in after the war, in the 1950s and 1960s, when cast iron was the standard material for drains. Brickell and Edgewater are mostly towers from the last twenty-five years, where the plumbing problem is less about age and more about which pipe belongs to whom.

Asking for a plumber who speaks Spanish

Roughly three in four Miami residents speak a language other than English at home, mostly Spanish, and plenty of the people who answer plumbing calls here do too. If you would rather explain the problem in Spanish, say "en español, por favor" when the call connects or note it on the form. It helps to say it up front, because the company can then send someone who can walk you through the quote in the same language. A written estimate in English is still worth reading line by line, or having a family member read with you, before you sign.

What happens after you call

Your call reaches a local plumbing company that covers your ZIP. They ask what is happening, whether water is still running and whether it is a house, a townhouse or a condo, then set a time. The price for anything beyond a straightforward repair is quoted after someone has seen it, and the work is agreed between you and them. If the honest answer is a $20 part from the hardware store, that is a fine outcome too.

Plumbing problems this site covers

Where we work in Miami

ShenandoahSouthwest, off Coral Wayalmost fully built out with Mediterranean Revival houses by 1926, so many original drains here are approaching their hundredth year, if they have not been replaced already
Little HavanaWest of the riverduplexes and small walk-up apartment buildings sharing one stack or one sewer lateral, where a clog in one unit backs up into the unit below
BrickellDowntown, south of the riverhigh-rise condos, where the first question on any leak is whether the pipe belongs to the unit or the association, and the building manager usually has to be told before anyone opens a wall
Coconut GroveOn the bay, southsettled before Miami itself and annexed in 1925, under heavy tree canopy, where roots in an old clay or cast-iron sewer lateral are a familiar cause of a main-line backup
Little RiverNortheast, below NE 79th Streetpart of the area the county's Connect 2 Protect program has been moving from septic tanks to sewer, so some homes are dealing with a brand-new lateral and an abandoned tank
AllapattahNorth-central, west of I-95mid-century houses and small rental buildings, many of them tenant-occupied, where the first call about a leak often goes to a landlord rather than a plumber

ZIP codes served33125 · 33127 · 33129 · 33130 · 33131 · 33133 · 33135 · 33137 · 33138 · 33142 · 33145 · 33150

Beyond Miami

We also cover Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Kendall.

Guides

Common questions

Is there a charge for calling this number?

No. The call and the referral cost you nothing. You pay the plumbing company for the work, directly, at whatever price you agree with them before they start.

How fast can a plumber get to me?

That depends on the company, the hour and where you are; a call from Brickell at rush hour and one from Allapattah at noon are different trips. The company that picks up sets the time and tells you on the call. Nobody here will promise a number of minutes they do not control.

My condo is leaking into the unit below. Who do I call first?

Close your unit valve, then tell the building manager or the association, because the leak may be coming from a pipe the association is responsible for. A plumber can find the source either way. The condo guide explains how the declaration decides who pays.

Do you cover my area?

The City of Miami first, plus Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Hialeah and Kendall. If you are elsewhere in Miami-Dade, give the ZIP on the call rather than guessing; coverage depends on the company.

My house was built in the 1950s. Should I worry about the drains?

Worry is the wrong word, but you should know what is under the floor. Houses of that age here were usually built with cast-iron drain lines, and in South Florida they often corrode decades before the century people expect. A camera inspection tells you what you have before it chooses the day for you.

Can I ask for a Spanish-speaking plumber?

Yes. Say so on the call or write it in the form notes. Many Miami plumbing companies work in Spanish every day; whether that particular visit can be in Spanish depends on who is free, and you will be told on the call.

Are you a plumbing company?

No, and you should know that before you call. This site is an advertising and referral service. When you call or send the form, your request goes to an independent local plumbing company that serves your area. We do not do plumbing work, hold no plumbing licence and take no share of what you pay them.

Tell us what is leaking or blocked

Say what is happening and where, and a local plumbing company will call you back to set a time. Phones answered Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm · after hours, leave a message or send the form Or call (786) 432-8693 if water is running right now.