Plumber in
Alamo Heights, TX
An established municipality about five miles north of downtown San Antonio, incorporated in 1922 and almost entirely surrounded by the city. Genuinely old houses behind the front doors, with original cast iron and galvanised lines still in service.
What we actually see in Alamo Heights
Old houses are worth doing carefully. The pipe is older, the finishes are better, and the cost of a careless repair is much higher.
Cast iron and galvanised
Materials with known failure modes — scale narrowing galvanised supply from the inside, cast iron drains corroding at the invert.
Finishes worth protecting
Plaster, original tile and hardwood mean access has to be planned rather than improvised. We open the smallest sensible opening, not the easiest one.
Pressure that has quietly dropped
Very often galvanised supply silting up over decades rather than anything that failed suddenly.
Layers of previous work
Several generations of repair in one house. Working out what is original and what was added is half the diagnosis.
A century of pipe in the same walls
Alamo Heights incorporated in 1922, annexed Bluebonnet Hills in 1928 and Sylvan Hills in 1944. Most of it, in other words, was built in an era when galvanised steel supply and cast iron drainage were simply what you used.
Both materials have well-understood failure modes, and both are almost entirely predictable once you have worked on enough of them. Galvanised silts up from the inside, narrowing the bore until pressure quietly falls off over years. Cast iron drainage corrodes at the invert — the bottom of the pipe — long before anything shows on the outside.
What makes the work here different is not the pipe, though. It is what surrounds it. Original plaster, tile and trim mean the cost of a careless access hole vastly exceeds the cost of the repair itself, and that changes how a job should be approached from the first phone call.
Cast iron and galvanised
Materials with known failure modes — scale narrowing galvanised supply from the inside, cast iron drains corroding at the invert.
Finishes worth protecting
Plaster, original tile and hardwood mean access has to be planned rather than improvised. We open the smallest sensible opening, not the easiest one.
Every service, in Alamo Heights
All of our services are available in Alamo Heights. On houses of this age we lean harder on diagnosis first — there is more variety behind the walls, and guessing is expensive when the wall is original plaster.
Every job is quoted up front and run under Texas Master Plumber License M-38925. Estimates are free, and emergency calls are taken nights and weekends.
Alamo Heights, TX
Careful access matters more here
In a 2015 build, cutting drywall is an inconvenience. In a house with original plaster, tile and trim it is a genuine cost, and it changes how a job should be approached.
So we locate before we open, keep access as small as the work allows, and tell you honestly when a run is failing repeatedly rather than selling the same repair three times. Old houses reward patience and punish shortcuts.
- Galvanised and cast iron supply and drain lines
- Honest repair-versus-repipe assessments
- Leak location with minimal opening up
- Pressure problems traced to their actual cause
- Water heaters, fixtures and drains
- Emergency response nights and weekends
Getting to Alamo Heights
Alamo Heights is the furthest into San Antonio we regularly work. We are honest about that on the phone — you will get a real window rather than an optimistic one, and if a closer company would genuinely serve you better on a given day, we will say so.
Standard hours are Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm, and emergency calls are taken nights and weekends. Every job is quoted before we start and estimates are free.
Water running right now?
Shut the main off and call — we will talk you through it on the phone.
Plumbing in Alamo Heights, TX
We come out of Boerne
32882 I-10 — which is why Alamo Heights gets a truck rather than an apology.
Yes. It is on our routes on the San Antonio side, and older housing stock is something we deal with regularly.
In a house of this era it is very often galvanised supply pipe silting up internally over decades. It is diagnosable, and the answer determines whether you are looking at a section repair or a larger conversation.
Only where the work genuinely requires it, and as little as possible. We locate faults before opening anything, which matters far more in a house with original plaster and tile.
Not necessarily. Old pipe can be perfectly sound. We will tell you what we actually found rather than quoting a repipe on the strength of the year it was built.
They corrode from the inside at the invert — the bottom of the pipe — which means a line can look completely sound from outside while its floor is failing. Recurring blockages in an old house are often this rather than what went down the drain.
78209. We work across the San Antonio northside as well as our core Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch area.
We also work just up the road
Pulliam Plumbing covers 22 communities across Kendall, Comal and Bexar counties from one shop in Boerne.
Every town we serve
- Alamo Heights, TX
- Alamo Ranch, TX
- Bergheim, TX
- Boerne, TX
- Bulverde, TX
- Castle Hills, TX
- Comfort, TX
- Cross Mountain, TX
- Fair Oaks Ranch, TX
- Helotes, TX
- Hill Country Village, TX
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- Kendalia, TX
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- Nelson City, TX
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Pulliam Plumbing is a family-owned, licensed plumbing company serving Alamo Heights, Texas. We work from a shop at 32882 I-10 in Boerne and handle water heaters, drains, leaks, water softeners and emergency plumbing. All work is performed under Texas Master Plumber License M-38925, and estimates are free.
| Service area | Alamo Heights, TX 78209 |
|---|---|
| County | Bexar County |
| Based at | 32882 I-10, Boerne, TX 78006 |
| Phone | (210) 857-8583 |
| Business hours | Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm |
| Emergency service | Nights and weekends |
| Licence | Texas Master Plumber M-38925 |
| Estimates | Free; every job quoted before work begins |
| Booking | Online, any time |
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Boerne & Fair Oaks Ranch, TX · Licensed Master Plumber M-38925