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Plumber in Wylie, TX
James Armstrong Plumbing serves Wylie, TX from our shop at 844 Dalworth Dr in Mesquite, about 25 minutes out past Rowlett and Sachse. Master Plumber James Armstrong has held Texas License M-39428 since 1995, with a gas endorsement, and we register with the City of Wylie so we can pull your permit rather than leaving it to you.
Call before noon and we can usually reach you the same day at regular rates. After hours there is a $132 (5–10 PM) or $184 (10 PM–8 AM) fee, and we tell you that number on the phone before anyone gets in a truck.
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Our Services
Comprehensive Plumbing Solutions for Homes & Businesses
Most Requested 
Plumbing Repairs and Installation
Get fast help from a trusted plumber in the DFW for leaks, fixture installs, and upgrades. We restore your plumbing with smooth, reliable work.
Water Heater Services
From quick fixes to full replacements, our water heater services in Dallas-Fort Worth, keep your hot water steady. We work on all standard and tankless models.
Most Requested 
Drain Cleaning Services
Stubborn clogs disappear with our drain-cleaning solutions in Texas. We clear the buildup fully so your drains flow the way they should.
Sewer Line Plumbing
Our team handles sewer line plumbing in the DFW , with careful inspection and precise repairs. We keep wastewater moving safely away from your home.
Gas Line Plumbing
Safe and reliable gas line plumbing in the DFW, is just a call away. Whether it’s a leak, repair, or new line, we follow strict safety standards.
Emergency Service
Emergency Service — Available 24/7
Burst pipe? Major leak? Don’t wait. Our emergency team serves the entire DFW area around the clock.
Technician available now
Why Choose Us
Why Wylie Homeowners Choose James Armstrong Plumbing
Licensed & Certified Technicians
Our plumbers are fully licensed, professionally trained, and committed to delivering quality workmanship that meets today’s industry standards.
Transparent, Upfront Pricing
No hidden fees and no surprises. Just clear, honest pricing you can trust before we begin any repair or installation.
Fast & Friendly Service
We respect your time. Our technicians arrive promptly, work efficiently, and treat you and your home with courtesy and care.
The Armstrong Clean Promise
Floor protection, shoe covers, and a meticulous cleanup on every job. If your home isn’t cleaner than we found it, we pay for the cleaning.
5-Star Rated by Homeowners Like You
Local families choose us for reliable plumbing and friendly service. Your comfort, safety, and satisfaction are the reasons we do what we do.
Emergency Response Available
Afterhours emergency calls accepted. Call (214) 918-6109.
What We Do in Wylie
Slab leak detection and repair
Electronic and acoustic location first, then the smallest possible opening. Detection runs $300 to $500 and you get a flat written quote before any concrete is opened.
Water heaters
Repair, replacement, and sizing. Attic and upper-floor installs built with a proper pan and a drain line that actually goes somewhere visible.
Tankless water heaters
Conversions including the gas line sizing and venting that most quotes leave out until it is too late.
Sewer line repair and replacement
Camera first. Cleaning, lining, pipe bursting, tunneling, and open trench quoted against each other rather than one number presented as the answer.
Drain cleaning
Cable machine or hydro jetting depending on what the camera shows and what your pipe can take.
Repiping
Galvanized and aging copper replaced with PEX run through walls and attic rather than back under the slab.
Gas line work
New runs for outdoor kitchens, pool heaters, generators, ranges, and tankless conversions, plus replacement and pressure testing. James holds the gas endorsement, so it is in-house work.
Emergency plumbing
Same-day on calls before noon. After hours $132 (5–10 PM) or $184 (10 PM–8 AM), stated before we come out.
Toilets, faucets, sinks, showers, and disposals
The everyday work, which at twenty-five minutes away is work we can actually do profitably here.
Wylie Is Two Different Plumbing Cities
Most suburbs have one housing era. Wylie has two, and they are about a hundred and twenty years apart.
The city was incorporated in 1887 along the railroad and named for a Santa Fe Railroad official. Historic downtown has been a market and gathering place on Ballard Avenue since then, and the streets around it hold early twentieth century cottages and mid-century homes. Then Wylie sat quietly as an onion-farming town until DFW growth reached it in the late 1970s, and the last twenty-five years have added tens of thousands of people.
That means whether your house is a plumbing problem or not depends almost entirely on which Wylie you live in.
Downtown and the older streets around Ballard Avenue. Original cast iron drain lines and galvanized steel supply. Cast iron corrodes from the inside until the pipe wall roughens and the effective diameter shrinks, which is why these homes clog repeatedly no matter how often somebody runs a cable. Galvanized supply does the same thing to your water pressure. These are the full replacement and repipe conversations.
The 1970s and 1980s stock. Copper supply under slab-on-grade foundations, now forty to fifty years old and sitting in Blackland Prairie clay that swells every wet season and shrinks every summer. That movement is what produces slab leaks here.
Birmingham Farms, Woodbridge, Braddock Place, Dominion of Pleasant Valley. Early to mid-2000s construction, roughly twenty years old now. Copper or early PEX, post-tension slabs, and water heaters that are on their second unit and due for a third.
Bozman Farm Estates, Kreymer East, Twin Lakes, Riverchase, Inspiration, and Ladera toward Lake Lavon. The newest phases. Modern PEX and Schedule 40 PVC, so structural failures are uncommon. What we do see is fittings cracking under soil stress and grade problems from settlement in the first decade after construction.
Tell us which street you are on and we will tell you what we expect to find.
You Live Next to the Plant
Here is something most Wylie homeowners never think about.
The North Texas Municipal Water District has been headquartered in Wylie since Lavon Lake was built in the 1950s, and the Wylie treatment plant complex sits inside your city. Water treated in Wylie goes out to roughly two million people across eighty communities: McKinney, Frisco, Allen, Plano, Richardson, Garland, Rockwall, and our own Mesquite among them.
That water is moderately hard, and it does the same thing in Wylie that it does everywhere else NTMWD serves. Calcium and magnesium drop out as scale on the bottom of your water heater, which insulates the burner from the water it is trying to heat, so the unit runs longer and the tank bottom runs hotter than it was designed to. A tank rated for a dozen years commonly gets closer to eight here without periodic flushing.
You may also notice a taste or smell change for about four weeks each spring. That is NTMWD temporarily switching from chloramine to chlorine only for routine system maintenance. It is normal, it is safe, and it is not your plumbing.
Meet James Armstrong
Meet the Master Plumber Serving Wylie: James Armstrong
James Armstrong has been a Mesquite-resident Master Plumber since 1995. What began as helping neighbors fix leaky faucets turned into a career — and eventually a family business, built on one simple rule: treat people right, do the job with integrity, and always stand behind your work. Today, James and his crew serve Wylie, Sachse, Garland, and the broader east DFW metro, with most calls dispatched and on-site within 25 minutes of the Mesquite headquarters at 844 Dalworth Dr.
“In thirty years of plumbing across the DFW metro, including Wylie, the drain calls almost always come down to two things: tree roots in the older neighborhoods, and grease and hair buildup in the newer developments. We camera-inspect first, then choose hydro-jetting or snaking based on what we actually see — not on what gets you to the highest invoice.”
James Armstrong, Master Plumber • Texas License M-39428 • Founder, James Armstrong Plumbing
Every job comes with the Armstrong Clean Promise — we leave your home cleaner than we found it, guaranteed. No excuses, no mess, no shortcuts. It’s the kind of commitment that’s earned us thousands of repeat customers and a reputation across the DFW metroplex for honest, reliable work.
Emergency Calls Accepted After Hours & Weekends as well.
Our Process
What to Expect When You Call
Call or Book Online
Speak with a real person, not a call center. We schedule at your convenience.
Same-Day Inspection
A licensed plumber evaluates your issue on-site. No guesswork.
Upfront Quote
You approve the price before work begins. The number you see is final.
Clean, Expert Work
Armstrong Clean Promise — we leave your home better than we found it.
Follow-Up Guarantee
We check in within 24 hours and follow up to ensure everything holds.
No hassle estimate · No obligation · Real person answers
When to Call Tonight and When It Can Wait
We would rather tell you to go to bed than charge you an after-hours fee to look at something that will keep until morning.
| Situation | Our read |
|---|---|
| Burst or actively spraying pipe | Call tonight. Shut the main first |
| Water heater tank split, especially in an attic | Call tonight. Shut the water and the power or gas |
| Sewage backing up into tubs, showers, or floor drains | Call tonight. Stop using water in the house |
| No water at all | Call tonight |
| A slab leak you can hear running | Call tonight. Shut the main |
| Gas smell | Not a plumbing call. Use the steps above |
| One toilet clogged, another working | Waits. Shut its valve |
| Water heater out but not leaking | Waits |
| Slow drain, dripping faucet, running toilet | Waits |
Call either way. If it holds until morning we will say so and book you at regular rates.
Service Areas
Serving Communities Across Dallas-Fort Worth
- Allen
- Anna
- Arlington
- Azle
- Balch Springs
- Bedford
- Benbrook
- Blue Mound
- Blue Ridge
- Burleson
- Celina
- Colleyville
- Combine
- Dallas
- Everman
- Fairview
- Farmersville
- Flower Mound
- Forest Hill
- Fort Worth
- Frisco
- Garland
- Grand Prairie
- Plano
- Richardson
- Rowlett
- Sunnyvale
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? We’ve got answers. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Give us a call anytime.
Yes. Our shop is at 844 Dalworth Dr in Mesquite, about 25 minutes from Wylie past Rowlett and Sachse. That is inside our same-day range, so calls placed before noon can usually be reached the same day at regular rates. After hours there is a $132 (5–10 PM) or $184 (10 PM–8 AM) fee, and we say that number on the phone before we come out.
Yes. Wylie requires contractors to register with the city before a permit is issued, through the city's citizenserve portal. Registration runs on the calendar year, valid January first through December thirty-first, so it has to be current rather than just previously obtained. It is a fair question to ask anyone quoting work on your house.
Wylie is on the 2021 code family, including the 2021 International Plumbing Code, International Residential Code, and International Fuel Gas Code, along with the 2020 National Electrical Code and the North Central Texas Council of Governments Regional Amendment Package. That differs from neighbors: McKinney moved to the 2024 codes in October 2025 and Frisco in March 2026. Confirm what applies to your project with Wylie Building Inspection at 972-516-6423.
Residential plan review turnaround is 5 to 10 business days for projects that require it. That is worth planning around on larger work like a repipe or a sewer line replacement. Contact the city's permitting desk at 972-516-6100, option 3.
Hard water. Wylie is served by the North Texas Municipal Water District, which is headquartered in Wylie and treats water at the plant complex inside the city. That water is moderately hard, so calcium and magnesium build up as scale on the tank bottom, insulating the burner from the water and making the unit run longer and hotter than designed. A tank rated for a dozen years often gets closer to eight here without periodic flushing.
For about four weeks each spring, the North Texas Municipal Water District temporarily switches from treating with chlorine and ammonia to chlorine only, as routine system maintenance. Some people notice a slight taste or smell change during that window. It is normal and it is not a problem with your plumbing.
Homes downtown and around Ballard Avenue often have original cast iron drain lines and galvanized steel supply. Cast iron corrodes from the inside until the pipe wall roughens and the diameter shrinks, which causes repeat clogs no amount of cabling will fix. Galvanized supply corrodes the same way and shows up as falling water pressure. Both are replacement conversations rather than repair ones.
Homes in Birmingham Farms, Woodbridge, Braddock Place, and Dominion of Pleasant Valley are roughly twenty years old now, which puts them at the age where water heaters are on their second or third unit and under-slab copper starts showing fatigue from clay movement. The newest phases toward Lake Lavon, like Bozman Farm Estates, Kreymer East, and Inspiration, are modern PEX and PVC, where failures cluster at fittings and at grade problems from settlement rather than in the pipe itself.
Leave the building immediately with everyone and every pet. Do not touch light switches, appliances, or any phone inside, and do not start a vehicle in the garage. Do not open or close any gas valve. From a safe distance outside, call 911, then call your gas utility. Collin County is served by both Atmos Energy at 866-322-8667 and CoServ Gas at 844-330-0763, so check your gas bill if you are unsure which serves your address. Call a plumber only after the property has been made safe.