An old cast-iron floor drain in a wet brick basement, lit by a work light

Plumber & sewer repair in Shaw, St. LouisWe go where the water goes.

Drains, sewer laterals, and water heaters for old St. Louis houses. We camera the line first and give you the price before we touch it.

Call (314) 555-0187 Tell us what's wrong

4.9 average rating · Sample rating

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0 to 4 ft · Inside the house

Your house, cut open.

Tap a spot to see what goes wrong there and how we fix it. St. Louis brick houses mostly fail in the same six places.

Spot 6 · Under the yard

Sewer lateral repair

The clay pipe from your house to the street is often a hundred years old. Roots get in the joints, sections sag, and sewage comes back up the floor drain. We camera it, show you the footage, then repair the bad section or line it without digging up the whole yard.

Sign: Water in the basement after heavy rain, gurgling drains
Usual fix: Camera, clear the roots, spot repair or lining

4 to 76 ft · Under the yard

Drive the camera. Find the problem.

This is what we see on every sewer call. Drag the camera down the line from your cleanout to the city sewer.

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Cleanout, 0 ft

Camera is in. Drag along the pipe below.

Your cleanoutCity sewer

A sample line. Real footage on your call is yours to keep. If the break is under the public right-of-way, the city or county sewer lateral program may pay for it; the camera tells us which side it is on.

Dispatch log · Sample week

What we pulled out of St. Louis pipes this week.

Mon 6:12 AM · Southwest GardenBasement floor drain backing up after the storm
Camera found roots at 22 ft. Cleared the line and recorded it for the homeowner.
Fixed same morning
Tue 2:40 PM · ShawNo hot water in a two-family flat
18-year-old tank, bottom rusted through. Quoted two replacements; the owner picked one.
New heater by 6 PM
Wed 9:05 AM · Tower Grove EastSlow drains on every fixture
Offset joint at 31 ft. Spot repair, one small dig, yard put back.
One-day repair
Fri 7:30 PM · The HillKitchen sink full, holiday party in an hour
Grease plug in the trap arm. Cleared, then showed them what not to pour.
Party went on

A plumber feeds a sewer camera cable into a cast-iron cleanout in a brick basement — Camera first

A plumber beside an open trench showing an old clay sewer pipe and a new section — Old clay, new pipe

Reviews

The texts we get after.

Mill Creek Plumbing
Messages

All done. Roots were at 22 ft, line is clear. Video is in your email.

Mill Creek · 8:41 AM

Basement is dry for the first time since spring. You showed me the video before you charged me a cent. Saving this number.

Sample review · Renee K., Southwest Garden

Two other companies said dig up the whole yard. You found one bad joint and fixed just that. Saved us thousands.

Sample review · Marcus D., Tower Grove East

Glad it worked out. Text us anytime.

Mill Creek · 3:02 PM

Hot water by dinner, same day I called. The tech even hauled the old tank out of a basement with stairs like a ladder.

Sample review · Priya S., Shaw

4.9 average · Sample rating

Dusk over the brick houses of Shaw with the St. Louis skyline and the Arch in the distance

Where we work

Built for brick houses older than the pipes in them.

Shaw
Tower Grove South
Tower Grove East
Southwest Garden
The Hill
Botanical Heights
Lafayette Square
Soulard
Dogtown
Maplewood
Webster Groves
Kirkwood

Based in Shaw since 2011, a few blocks from where Mill Creek used to run before the city buried it in a sewer.

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