Do you know how to do plumbing in Plano, Texas?
In this video I'm gonna teach you how to do plumbing in Plano, Texas and I'm gonna teach
you right now.
I'm Roger Wakefield, LEED AP, The Expert Plumber.
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Plumbing in Plano, Texas is pretty much like plumbing everywhere else.
Plano is really good to work with when it comes to the city inspectors.
The plumbing inspectors in the city of Plano are really very knowledgeable people and they're
good to work with.
Most of them have been around for a while.
The thing about all plumbing in Plano, all plumbing in Texas, you've got to be licensed.
If you're using a handyman to do your work, if you're having just a general contractor
also do your plumbing, you're gonna realize later that you've got problems.
We get calls all the time asking us will we come out inspect somebody else's work and
go ahead and pull a permit and do it?
As a legal, licensed plumber I don't do that and I don't think any other plumber should
either.
The Texas State Board of plumbing Examiners is really good about making sure that most
people that want to do things legally, they are good at making sure they do do things
legally.
So it should be done by licensed plumbers.
Now Plano being in Texas, Texas has a statewide license.
T good thing about that is once you have a plumbing license in Texas you're legally licensed
to work in any of the cities.
Now there's different levels of it.
You start off as an apprentice.
You can become a tradesman, which lets you work in residential homes with just two years
experience.
You can become a journeyman which lets you work in residential homes and work on commercial
jobs and you've got to have four years experience.
If you go through the Union, the Union apprenticeship program is a five-year program.
But you still will get your license, if you pass everything, before the fifth year.
A master license is the next level license.
A master license is what you have to have in order to pull permits, to get inspections,
to do things right in the city of Plano.
Now Plano slab leak detection, things like that, you actually don't have to have a license
to do slab leak detection.
All you're doing is walking in with equipment and listening to plumbing.
Now our plumbers, the plumbers that we go out, that we use to send out for slab leak
detection or for leak location in Plano, what we do is we send them out and they are plumbers
so they understand your plumbing system.
I like doing that a lot better and that's why I don't just sub my work out to leak detection
companies.
When we go out, we find the job, we can actually look at it give people a price to do the job
and we can do the work, we can pull the permit, we can get everything done and we can make
sure things get done right.
Do you know as a homeowner, if you are a homeowner in Plano and you want to do plumbing work
in Plano, you can do your own work?
If you're the homeowner and that is your registered homestead you are legally allowed to do all
the work that a plumber can do.
If you're not sure whether it has to be permitted or inspected, call in to the city of Plano,
talk to the Plano plumbing inspector, if you can.
If not, just talk to the building department and ask them if what you're doing requires
an inspection and requires a permit.
Anything else in Plano, anything else pretty much in Texas, if you've got a drain cleaning
that you need done - You know, cleaning a drain in Plano is like cleaning a drain anywhere
else.
You need to find out where the problem is, you need to get the right equipment.
You go to the box store, you can get a sewer machine, you can go buy small sewer machine,
you can do things.
Drain cleaning in general, make sure you're very careful.
Those cables can twist up if the sewer machine gets down in there and locks up.
That motor keeps spinning, that cable tends to twist.
It can pinch your fingers, it can rip your clothes, it can break a bone.
If you've got a big enough sewer machine, it can really be a problem.
I hope you've learned something from this, if you like this video we've got other ones
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own plumbing?
And if you did, did you get it inspected?
And don't worry we're not going to tell anybody.
Like I said, if you want to do your plumbing in Plano, you can handle it.
My name is Roger Wakefield with Texas Green Plumbing saving you money one drop at a time.