SALT LAKE CITY EMERGENCY PLUMBER — UNDER 30 MIN DISPATCH

Most plumbing problems can wait. A drip under the kitchen sink, a running toilet, a slow shower drain — none of those will get worse overnight. Some problems can't wait. If water is actively spraying inside a wall in your 1910 Avenues bungalow, if sewage is coming up through the basement floor drain in Liberty Wells, if you smell gas near the water heater in a Marmalade duplex, if your furnace died and it's 18°F outside — that's an emergency. Wait until morning and the $500 repair becomes a $15,000 water remediation job with insurance adjusters and contractors pulling lath-and-plaster off old walls.

Our shop is at 244 W 300 N, right off the I-15/I-80 interchange. From there we can be in the Avenues, Capitol Hill, or downtown in under ten minutes. Sugar House and Liberty Wells in fifteen to twenty. Federal Heights, Yalecrest, Rose Park, Glendale — all under twenty. Our typical SLC after-hours response is under 30 minutes, faster than anywhere else in our service area, because the city is dense and we're already inside it. The dispatcher who picks up at 2 a.m. is local. The tech who shows up is one of our in-house crew, not a subcontractor with a different van.

Call us right away for

• Burst pipe — frozen-pipe blowouts in north-facing exterior walls of pre-1950 homes are the #1 January call in SLC. Avenues and Capitol Hill homes with original galvanized supply are especially prone. Shut the water off at the main if you can, then dial.
• Sewage backing up — into a tub, shower, or basement floor drain. In older Sugar House and Liberty Wells homes with cast iron mains, root intrusion through century-old elms is the usual culprit. Health hazard, escalates fast.
• Gas smell — near a stove, water heater, or furnace. Leave the house, shut the gas meter off if you can do it safely, then call. Don't flip switches or light anything.
• No heat in winter — below 20°F a failed furnace puts your pipes at freeze risk, especially in old homes with single-pane windows and zero wall insulation. We dispatch furnace techs alongside plumbers when temps drop.
• Water heater leaking at the base — actively draining is different from condensation around the top. Call now; same-night swap is usually possible if we have the size in stock.
• Main water line break — wet patch in the front yard, sudden water bill spike, no pressure inside. Mature SLC trees crack older copper and lead supply lines under Avenues and Yalecrest sidewalks.

What you'll pay

Emergency after-hours service adds a $95–$150 dispatch surcharge on top of the normal flat-rate repair price. The repair itself is quoted the same way it would be at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday — no emergency tax on the actual work. Members of the Quality Service Club get priority dispatch (skipping the queue on busy nights) plus 15% off the repair cost.

Before we get there

Three things you can do that save money while we're rolling. One — shut off the main water valve. In most pre-1950 SLC homes that's in the basement near where the supply enters, often near the front of the house. Newer downtown condos put it in the unit's mechanical closet. Two — if sewage is backing up, stop using every fixture in the house. No flushing, no laundry, no dishwasher. Three — move belongings off any wet floors. In an old home with original hardwood, water spreads under floorboards fast. Don't try to snake or patch anything. Let us diagnose before something gets made worse.