Locations
Birmingham's plumbing changes a lot from one side of the metro to the other. The prewar houses near downtown have galvanized supply pipe and clay sewer laterals; the subdivisions along I-65 in Shelby County were mostly built in the 1990s and 2000s and are wearing out water heaters and early plastic fittings instead. Each town page below covers what tends to fail there and what a good plumber will look at.
Birmingham
Every plumbing service we list, anywhere in the city.
Hoover
Tell us the problem and we connect you with a local plumber.
Alabaster
Water heaters, drains and sewer laterals: tell us the problem, we find a local plumber.
Gardendale
Water heaters, drains and gas lines: describe the job, we find a local plumber.
Pelham
Describe the leak or clog and we connect you with a plumber.
Trussville
Send the form and get a free plumbing quote.
Vestavia Hills
Get a free quote.
Bessemer
Send the form for a free quote today.
Homewood
Send the form for a free quote.
Chelsea
Builder-grade fixes, leaks and urgent jobs, matched to a local plumber.
Helena
Toilets, drains, gas lines and leaks, matched to a local plumber.
Mountain Brook
Get a free quote.
Leeds
Get a free quote.
Jefferson County towns
Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood and Mountain Brook sit over the mountain from the city, where steep lots and long downhill sewer runs meet big old oaks. Bessemer, to the southwest, has a deep stock of older homes with original pipe. Gardendale to the north and Trussville to the northeast mix older streets with newer neighborhoods, and Leeds sits out east along I-20 near where the county meets St. Clair and Shelby.
Shelby County towns
Pelham, Alabaster, Helena and Chelsea make up the fastest-growing part of the area. Many of the houses there are now old enough that the original tank water heater, supply lines and shutoff valves are reaching the end of their life at about the same time, so a single failure is often a good moment to have a plumber check the rest.
City neighborhoods
Inside Birmingham itself, the home page covers the city neighborhoods directly, including Southside, Highland Park, Forest Park and Avondale. Those streets are full of 1920s to 1950s houses, and the galvanized steel lines and cast iron or clay laterals in them corrode, crack and pull in roots. Low water pressure at every faucet and repeat clogs in the main line are the two complaints that come up most from these blocks.
Not on the list?
The towns above are the ones with their own pages, not a hard border. We connect homeowners in Birmingham and the surrounding towns in Jefferson and Shelby counties, from Gardendale and Trussville to Hoover, Pelham and Chelsea, with independent local plumbers. If your street sits between two of them, send your address on the quote form and we tell you plainly whether we can connect you with someone nearby. You can also read through the kinds of plumbing work covered first.