Dallas Neighborhoods We Serve: Plumbing Area by Area

The Cedars, South Dallas and Fair Park

Our own corner of the city. Few of the Cedars' original houses survive; most residents live in lofts in old warehouses and industrial buildings, or in newer townhouses. South Dallas keeps early-1900s homes, including the South Boulevard–Park Row historic district (about 1910 to 1935), and Fair Park fills with State Fair of Texas crowds every fall.

• Older houses: cast-iron drains, clay sewer laterals and galvanized supply. See drain cleaning, video camera inspection and repiping.
• Converted lofts: long drain runs and old building lines tied into newer plumbing. See drain repair.
• Shops and kitchens: see commercial plumbing.

Downtown and Deep Ellum

Downtown is towers: offices, hotels and residential high-rises. Deep Ellum, just east, began as a railroad warehouse district; its brick buildings now hold lofts, restaurants, bars and more than 30 live music venues. Expect greasy kitchen drains, gas lines to cooking equipment and condo leaks that travel between floors.

Once it's safe: gas line repair, the Dallas gas test permit and red tag process, pipe cleaning for grease lines and leak detection for condos.

Oak Cliff, Bishop Arts and Kessler Park

Across the Trinity River southwest of downtown, much of Oak Cliff dates from the early 1900s: Winnetka Heights was platted in 1908, Kessler Park followed in the 1920s, and Bishop Arts grew around an old streetcar stop into a strip of restaurants and shops. Many houses sit on pier and beam, with pipes in the crawlspace.

• Galvanized supply: brown water, weak pressure and pinhole leaks. See water pressure repair and repiping.
• Clay and cast-iron sewers under mature trees: roots and repeat backups. See sewer line repair and replacement.
• Crawlspace pipes: open to cold air and early to freeze. See frozen pipes.

East Dallas and Lakewood

Munger Place (about 1905 to 1915) is a district of two-story foursquares; neighboring Junius Heights is mostly Craftsman bungalows; and Lakewood, near White Rock Lake, is known for 1920s and 1930s Tudor and Spanish-style homes. Many now mix new PEX or copper with original galvanized and cast iron, and the fittings where the two meet often leak.

• Sewer line replacement once a camera inspection finds broken or root-filled clay.
• Repiping and a new water service line to retire galvanized pipe.
• Got a DWU letter about your service line? See our service line letter page.

Uptown and Oak Lawn

Uptown is dense with condo and apartment towers, plus a pocket of Victorian-era houses in State Thomas; Oak Lawn mixes older apartment buildings with newer towers. In stacked units, the usual calls are leaks showing in the ceiling below, worn shower valves, running toilets and closet water heaters.

• Leak detection to find which unit and which pipe.
• Shower repairs and toilet repairs.
• Water heater replacement in tight closets.

Pleasant Grove

In southeast Dallas, Pleasant Grove grew fast in a postwar housing boom and was annexed by the city in 1954. Many houses from that era still have original drain lines and decades of clay movement behind them, so watch for slab leaks, cracked drains and aging water heaters.

• Slab leaks and foundation leaks.
• Drain repair for cracked or separated pipe.
• Water heater repair or replacement.

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