Plumber in Gainesville, FL

Swamp City Plumbing is based in Gainesville, and this is where most of our trucks-worth of stories come from: century-old bungalows in the Duckpond and Pleasant Street historic districts, 1960s concrete-block ranches in NW Gainesville, student rentals getting hard use near campus, and newer builds out toward Haile Plantation and Town of Tioga.

Each of those houses fails differently. The historic districts still hide galvanized supply lines and cast iron drains that are past their design life. The mid-century ranches are prime slab-leak territory, copper laid under concrete sixty years ago in aggressive aquifer water. The newer southwest neighborhoods mostly have healthy pipe but heavy water heater and fixture workloads. Twenty-three years of working these same streets means we usually know what's behind the wall before we open it.

Gainesville water is hard, straight from the Floridan aquifer through Murphree Water Treatment Plant. That hardness is why water heaters here die young, why faucets crust up, and why we're straight with you about maintenance instead of selling you a new unit every time.

Common calls in Gainesville

• Water heater repair and replacement, our number one call in this hard-water city
• Cast iron drain problems and repeat clogs in pre-1975 neighborhoods
• Slab leak diagnosis in mid-century block homes
• Full repipes on homes still carrying polybutylene or failing copper
• Gas line runs for ranges, tankless heaters, and generators

We're family-run, licensed (CFC1425972), and we answer the phone like neighbors, because we are: our shop is in SW Gainesville. Call (352) 316-3745 for an upfront quote.