Plumbing Services in Birmingham & McCalla, AL
Plumbing gets your attention at the worst possible moment — a slab leak on a Sunday, a main line backing up into the tub, a water heater letting go while you’re at work. Precision Services has handled it for Birmingham-area homes and businesses for 35+ years, out of our own shop in McCalla. Licensed, insured, in-house crews, upfront pricing, and somebody who actually answers the phone.
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Plumbing Repair & Installation in Birmingham
We’re a full-service plumbing company covering everything from a dripping faucet to a whole-house repipe — residential and commercial, repair and new installation. If it carries water, gas, or waste through your building, we work on it.
The calls we run most: burst and leaking pipes, no water pressure, water that won’t get hot, running or overflowing toilets, backed-up drains and main lines, failed sump pumps, and gas line work. We diagnose the actual cause instead of treating the symptom — a drain that clogs every three months usually has something structural behind it, and we’d rather find it than keep coming back.
What a service call costs
Our service call fee is $79. That puts a licensed plumber at your door and gets you a real diagnosis, the problem explained in plain English, and an upfront price before any work begins — no hidden costs, no obligation. We offer multiple easy payment options for the bigger jobs: Wells Fargo, GreenSky and our in-house 90-day plan.
Drain Cleaning & Sewer Service
Slow drains are a nuisance; a backed-up main line is an emergency. We clear kitchen and bathroom drains, tubs and showers, floor drains, and main sewer lines, and we do it with the right tool for the blockage — cabling for a simple stoppage, hydro jetting when grease or scale has coated the pipe wall, and a sewer camera inspection when the line keeps failing and nobody has said why.
We also handle sewer line repair and replacement, including collapsed or root-invaded lines. If you’re on a septic system rather than city sewer, that’s a different job — see our septic tank services.
Signs the problem is the main line, not the fixture
More than one fixture backing up at once · a toilet that gurgles when the washing machine drains · water coming up in a tub or shower when you flush · sewage smell in the yard. When it’s the main, clearing one drain won’t fix it.
Leak, clog, or no water? We answer 24/7.
$79 service call fee. Upfront pricing before any work starts.
Sump Pump Repair & Installation
A sump pump only matters on the day it’s needed, and that’s the day you find out it failed. We repair and replace sump pumps, replace stuck floats and worn check valves, and install new pits and pumps where water keeps finding the basement or crawlspace.
Test yours before storm season: pour a bucket of water into the pit and confirm the pump kicks on, moves the water, and shuts off cleanly. If it hums without pumping, runs constantly, or does nothing at all, call us before the next heavy rain rather than during it.
Repiping, Water Lines & Gas Lines
Plenty of older Birmingham-area homes are still on original galvanized or early plastic supply lines. If you’re seeing rusty water, pinhole leaks in more than one place, or pressure that keeps dropping, patching is money down a hole. We do whole-house repiping in PEX — flexible, corrosion-proof, and far less destructive to walls than a copper repipe.
We also repair and replace main water lines from the meter to the house, and install and repair gas lines for ranges, dryers, grills, fireplaces and generators.
Gas work is not a place to save money. We’re licensed for it, we pressure-test every line we touch, and if you smell gas we want you out of the building and on the phone to us from outside.
Leak Detection
The expensive leaks are the ones you can’t see. We locate hidden leaks — under slabs, behind walls, beneath yards — using electronic leak detection rather than opening up your house to go looking. When a buried line does have to be dug up, here’s how we handled an underground plumbing line repair from the first dig to the fix.
Signs you have one: a water bill that climbed with no change in habits · the sound of running water when everything is off · a warm patch on the floor · damp spots, buckling flooring, or a persistent musty smell · a water meter that keeps moving with every fixture shut off.
Toilets, Faucets, Sinks & Garbage Disposals
The everyday work, done properly. We repair and install toilets, faucets, sinks, tubs, showers, shut-off valves, and garbage disposals — including the fixtures you bought yourself and would rather have fitted right the first time. Here’s a recent kitchen sink drain repair that stopped a slow leak into the cabinet below.
Garbage disposals are the one people most often try twice before calling: if it hums but won’t turn, something is jammed in the impeller; if it’s silent, it’s usually the reset or the switch; if it leaks, it’s the gasket or the unit itself. We’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a repair or a replacement — disposals are cheap enough that repairing an old one is often the worse deal.
Heating your water rather than moving it? That has its own page — see water heater repair & installation.
24/7 Emergency Plumbing
Burst pipe, sewage backing up, no water in the house — that isn’t a Monday problem. Our line answers 24/7 and our crews are in-house, so one call gets the diagnosis and the repair. Call (205) 807-6319.
While you wait: find your main shut-off and close it — usually at the meter or where the supply enters the house. Knowing where that valve is before you need it is the cheapest insurance in plumbing.
On the team
Barry Ferguson
Plumbing Service Technician
Barry has been a valued member of the Precision Services team for over 10 years and brings more than 30 years of experience in the service industry.
Serving Birmingham, McCalla, Bessemer & Hueytown
Our shop is in McCalla, minutes from Bessemer, Hueytown, Bucksville and the Tannehill area, and straight up the I-459 / I-20/59 corridor into Birmingham. Closer trucks mean a faster answer on the day a pipe lets go — and on those days everybody is calling at once.
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FAQ
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Our service call fee is $79, which covers getting a licensed plumber to you and diagnosing the problem properly. From there you get an upfront price for the repair before any work starts, so you are never guessing. We offer multiple easy payment options on larger jobs: Wells Fargo, GreenSky and our in-house 90-day plan.
Yes, 24 hours a day. Burst pipes, sewage backups and total loss of water are the calls we take at night and on weekends. Because our crews are in-house, the person who diagnoses the problem is the person who fixes it, rather than a dispatcher who books you for Monday.
The usual signs are a water bill that jumped without a change in habits, the sound of running water when every fixture is off, a warm spot on a slab floor, or damp patches and a musty smell. A quick test: shut off every fixture and watch the water meter. If it is still moving, water is going somewhere it should not be.
When you are repairing leaks in more than one place, seeing rusty or discoloured water, or losing pressure across the whole house, the pipe itself is usually the problem rather than any one joint. Older galvanized supply lines are the common culprit around here. We repipe in PEX, which resists corrosion and needs far less wall opened up than a copper repipe.