Plumbing in The Woodlands, TX

Call during business hours and tell us which village you are in. About 70 percent of homes here went up between 1980 and 2009, according to Census ACS estimates, so plumbing trouble tends to come from pipe reaching middle age and from trees that have had decades to grow.

Pine roots, natural drainage and 1980s pipe

Rule out roots first when a main drain slows down. Landscape architect Ian McHarg's plan for The Woodlands kept natural drainage and woods in place, which leaves big trees close to sewer laterals. Roots find any loose joint, then thicken inside the pipe.

Check your supply pipe next. Polybutylene was sold across the country from about 1978 to 1995, and that window overlaps the older villages. Gray plastic line in the attic is the clue.

Look at the water heater too. Houston plumbers report 8-12 years of life for a tank heater, so one that came with a 2000s house is on borrowed time.

House age sets the order of those checks. The median home dates from 2000 by Census ACS estimates, and about half were built that year or later, so the pipe question belongs to the older half. A 2005 house can skip it and go straight to the tank and the sewer run.

Montgomery County soils are loamy on top with deep clayey subsoil, according to the Handbook of Texas. That clay still moves, which is why slab leaks are not only an inner-loop problem.

Work suited to wooded village lots

Calling from Grogan's Mill to Creekside Park

A visit is scheduled by phone during business hours, and our line opens at 7 AM on Sundays. Tell us the village, what the drain or fixture is doing, and whether any big trees sit near the sewer run. We look at the job, explain what failed in plain terms, and put a clear, upfront quote in front of you before work starts.

Plumbing in The Woodlands: MUDs, SJRA and covenants

Who handles what here is different from a city, so use this as your guide:

Question	Who to ask
Water bill, meter, main in the street	Your MUD, through Woodlands Water
Where the water comes from	San Jacinto River Authority, which wholesales from 38 wells and blends in treated Lake Conroe water
Sewage past your lot	Your MUD. SJRA's Woodlands Division runs three regional wastewater plants and the lift stations feeding them
Exterior changes on your lot	Your village Residential Design Review Committee
Plumbing permit questions	Montgomery County, or Harris County for Creekside Park

SJRA has been the wholesale provider here since 1975. Anything on your side of the meter stays with you.

Lake Woodlands, Spring Creek and the I-45 corridor

The jobs that fit these lots are root cutting on a lateral, a tank replacement, and leak tracing on aging supply pipe. Give us your village and ZIP when you call. ZIPs 77380, 77381, 77382, 77384 and 77389 cover much of the community, and 77375 takes in the Creekside Park area on the Harris County side.

Local landmarks help us find you: Lake Woodlands, the Waterway, Market Street, the Spring Creek Greenway and W. Goodrich Jones State Forest on the northern edge. I-45 is the main route north from Houston, with the Hardy Toll Road as the alternate. We also serve Spring and Conroe along the same corridor.