Lebanon plumbing for older homes and tired pipes, 97355

Lebanon grew as a mill and farm town, and the blocks around its old downtown hold a lot of houses from the early 1900s through the 1950s. Plenty of them have been painted, re-roofed and remodeled, but the water and drain lines under the floor are often original. Newer subdivisions on the edges of town tell a different story, with plastic pipe and modern water heaters.

Lebanon is near the far side of our area from downtown Salem, so we plan most work here as scheduled visits and group nearby jobs on the same trip. We still answer around the clock, and when a pipe breaks or a sewer backs up we send a plumber as soon as one can make the drive. On the phone you get a straight estimate of the arrival time.

Galvanized, cast iron and clay under Lebanon floors

In Lebanon's older houses, galvanized steel supply pipe rusts from the inside until the bore is a fraction of its size. You notice it as weak pressure at the shower, rusty water after the tap sits, and leaks at threaded fittings. Cast-iron drains under the same floors scale up and rot along the bottom of long horizontal runs in the crawlspace.

The sewer lateral out to the street is usually clay or concrete on these lots, and big yard trees send roots into the joints. Most Lebanon homes sit over a crawlspace that stays damp through the long rainy months. Farm homes outside town often have wells and septic; we handle the plumbing inside the house and the drain line toward the tank, not the well or the tank itself.