Commercial Plumbing Services in Greater Durham and Chapel Hill, NC

A leaking pipe inside a commercial building can damage ceilings, flooring, and inventory before anyone notices, especially overnight or over a weekend when the building is empty. Our plumbers find and repair leaks in supply lines, drain lines, and fixtures. Outside the building, we repair and replace damaged sewer lines that carry waste from your property to the public sewer.

Temperatures in Durham regularly fall below freezing on winter nights. Pipes in unheated spaces are most at risk, including loading docks, warehouses, storage rooms, and lines that run along exterior walls. Water expands as it freezes, which can split a pipe, and the leak starts once the ice thaws. You can lower the risk by keeping heat on in vacant suites and insulating exposed lines. If a pipe does break, our team handles frozen and burst pipe repair.

Restaurants need hot water for dishwashing and handwashing sinks, and salons, gyms, and offices need it for customers and staff. Water heaters are one of our specialties, and we repair and replace them for commercial buildings. When it is time for water heater installation, the new unit should match how much hot water your building uses at its busiest time of day. A unit sized that way keeps up through a lunch rush or a full class schedule.

We also install and repair gas lines that feed water heaters, furnaces, and kitchen equipment. A gas line sized for the original kitchen may not carry enough fuel once you add a range or a fryer. On an undersized line, burners can burn with weak flames when everything runs at once. Before you add gas equipment, have us confirm that the line can carry the extra load.

Drains in a commercial building handle more waste than household drains do. Kitchen lines collect grease and food scraps, and restroom lines carry paper and steady use from customers and staff. When a line backs up, our plumbers provide drain clearing to open the blockage and get water moving again. For kitchen lines coated in grease, hydro jetting sprays high-pressure water through the pipe to scour the walls. A drain cable only punches a hole through that buildup, while jetting removes it.

When the same drain keeps backing up, a camera inspection shows what is inside the line. Our plumbers run a waterproof camera through the pipe to look for tree roots, a sagging section that collects waste, or a crack. Once we see the cause, we can repair it instead of clearing the same clog again.