Plumber in Dover, PA

Local knowledge

What we see in Dover

Dover covers a lot of territory, and the housing runs from old farmhouses to subdivisions built in the last twenty years. What ties much of it together is private water — this is well country, and it is the reason most of our Dover calls end up being about pumps, pressure tanks and what is dissolved in the water rather than about drains.

Pennsylvania has more than a million private wells serving around three and a half million people, and no statewide construction standards governing how they are built. In practice that means two houses on the same road can have completely different water, and the only way to know what you have is to test it rather than guess.

The most common thing we fix here is not dramatic. It is a waterlogged pressure tank making a pump switch on and off every few seconds — cheap to replace, and the single most effective way to shorten the life of an expensive submersible pump. If you can hear your pump cycling when nobody is using water, that is worth a call before it becomes a pump replacement.

We are further out from Dover than from the southern boroughs, so we will be straight with you about timing on an emergency call rather than telling you what you want to hear.