The Plumber Remington Calls When It Has To Be Done Right

Remington sits down in the southeast corner of Fauquier County, where the Rappahannock River bends past town and Route 29 carries the through traffic. To get to you from our place at 266 Grove Farm Road in Front Royal, we drop south on 522 through Flint Hill and Amissville, pick up 211 and 29, and come down the highway past Warrenton. It is roughly forty minutes door to door when the traffic behaves, and we have run it enough times to know which stretch of 29 backs up and which does not. That is the honest version, because when your basement is filling up you want to know whether the plumber is twenty minutes out or two hours out.

This is a small Virginia town with a long memory. Remington was a railroad town before it was anything else, the rail line still cuts right through, and a good chunk of the housing dates to the period when the depot was the center of everything. Old frame houses on Main and the side streets, brick four-squares, a tight little grid of original lots. Then you cross out of the town limits and the picture changes fast: farmhouses spread along the county roads, newer builds on bigger parcels, places on private wells with their own pumps and pressure tanks. One service area here, two completely different plumbing realities, and we work on both.

Winter is the season that proves whether a plumber actually answers the phone. Remington sits in open country down by the river, and the cold settles in those low spots. A water line in an uninsulated crawlspace or run along an exterior wall of an old frame house freezes, then it splits, then it thaws and floods the floor. It almost never happens at a convenient hour. That is why we run a real 24/7 line, the kind a person actually picks up, and why we knock 10% off frozen water-line repairs through the cold months. We would rather you call us at two in the morning while it is a cracked pipe than wait until it is a ceiling on the floor.

If you are not sure whether you have an emergency or just a slow drip, call anyway. We will tell you straight whether it can wait until morning or whether you need to shut the main off right now. Sometimes the most useful thing we do over the phone is keep you from panicking and pulling apart something that did not need it. See some of the work we have done, then call us and we will give you an honest read on yours.