Where we work in Seminole County
Two trucks out of Casselberry. What’s under the ground changes town to town, and it changes what we expect to find before we arrive.
The map
Casselberry, and about twenty minutes around it
Seminole County and the north edge of Orange: Lake Mary and Longwood to the north, Oviedo to the east, Maitland, Winter Park and Goldenrod to the south.
Not sure if you’re in? Ask the chat or call, and we’ll tell you straight.
Town by town
What’s usually under the lawn
Not a diagnosis, but it tells us which question to ask first.
Casselberry
Home. A lot of 1960s and 1970s slab-built homes: cast iron under the slab and clay or early plastic from the foundation out, with joints every few feet that roots know exactly where to find.
Winter Springs
Newer on the whole, and mostly PVC, which fails differently: a joint never properly glued, a settled section, or something that should never have gone down a toilet.
Fern Park
Older and closer in. Cast-iron drains of an age where scale and channelling along the bottom are the normal finding.
Altamonte Springs
A mix of everything, and enough mature oak and ficus that roots at an open joint are the first thing we look for on a repeat call.
Longwood
Big lots and long runs from the house to the main, which is exactly where a two-way cleanout starts saving money on every visit.
Lake Mary
Largely newer construction. Most calls here are branch lines and kitchen grease rather than anything under the lawn.
Maitland
Old canopy, old pipe, small front yards. A located defect matters most here, because there’s rarely room to be wrong about where to dig.
Oviedo
Pockets on septic as well as sewer, and the two look identical from inside the house. The outlet side gets checked before anybody sells a cabling.
Forest City
Mixed ages either side of the same street, so what’s under one lawn tells you little about the one next door.
Goldenrod
Long, flat runs with very little fall to spare, where a couple of inches of settling turns a working line into one that catches.
Why it matters
What the age of a house tells us before we get there
Cast iron corrodes from the inside and channels along the bottom until the pipe is much smaller than the stamp on it. Clay stays hard and fails at its joints, and it has a joint every two or three feet. Early plastic fails at connections and where the ground moved under it.
What it never does is replace looking. Two houses on the same street, built the same year, can have completely different lines under them, because one was re-plumbed in 1994 and nobody wrote it down.
In one of those towns?
Tell us the street and what it’s doing. The office will call you back the same working day to agree a time.