Your Richland Hills Plumber, Right Down the Road
Richland Hills is small, a little over three square miles, and most of it was built in a short burst. The city incorporated in 1950, and most of the one-story brick homes in Richland Park and the Richland Hills Addition were finished by the mid-1950s. A plumber in Richland Hills spends a lot of time on pipes that are about 70 years old.
HAT Plumbing, Heating & Air is on Pebble Drive in the same 76118 ZIP code, so Richland Hills is practically home turf. We fix leaks, clear drains, replace water heaters and repair sewer lines in homes between Baker Boulevard and Grapevine Highway.
Need a plumber today? Get in touch or call (817) 405-4575 at any hour.
Your Local HAT Office
Serving Richland Hills From Our Fort Worth Office
7630 Pebble Drive
Fort Worth, TX 76118
Open 24/7, including nights, weekends & holidays
Plumbing Services in Richland Hills
With so many homes from the early 1950s, the work in Richland Hills leans toward replacing and upgrading rather than quick fixes. Services that fit these homes:
- Repiping: swapping out original supply lines in homes that were plumbed well before modern plumbing codes.
- Sewer services: camera inspections and repairs once the city confirms a backup is on the homeowner's side.
- Drain cleaning: clearing the older drain lines that homes of the early 1950s commonly have.
- Water heaters: replacing tanks worn down by Fort Worth surface water blended with local well water.
- Leak detection and repair: tracking down hidden leaks under slabs that sit on clay loam soils.
- Water line service: replacing the line from the meter to the house; swapping in new pipe counts as new work under city rules.
- Fixture repairs and installation: updating vintage faucets, tubs and valves.
New builds in Baker Landing and Richland Crossing mostly need maintenance, while the original streets need bigger upgrades. Pipe materials vary from house to house, especially where earlier owners made repairs, so we inspect before we recommend anything. Need AC or heating help too? See our Richland Hills HVAC services.
What Richland Hills Homes Are Up Against
- A blended water supply: Richland Hills Public Works mixes surface water bought from Fort Worth with groundwater from its own Trinity and Paluxy aquifer wells. The Fort Worth data in the 2025 report shows hardness of 108 to 150 ppm, and the city's well water can differ. That's enough to leave scale in a water heater over time.
- Chloramine: The 2025 water quality report lists total chloramine at an average of 1.915 mg/L. Rubber seals and toilet flappers can wear faster in chloraminated water.
- Call the city first on backups: On a sewer backup, Richland Hills asks residents to call Public Works at 817-616-3830 first. City crews check the main. If the problem is on your side of the line, that's when you call us.
- Permits on pipe replacement: The city only exempts stopping leaks and clearing stoppages. Replacing a defective pipe with new material counts as new work and needs a permit. We handle the permit.
- Clay loam soils: Most of the city sits on Trinity River terrace soils with moderate shrink-swell, and Baker Landing is on higher-swell Ponder clay loam. Seasonal ground movement can stress under-slab lines.
- Freeze prep: The city's freeze tips say to drip cold faucets on exposed pipes. During the February 2021 storm, rolling blackouts affected the city's water pumping and a boil water notice went out.
- Irrigation: A new sprinkler system needs rain and freeze sensors and a backflow test report before final inspection.
Richland Hills Neighborhoods We Serve
We work all over town, from Handley-Ederville Road and Kate Baker Park to the streets around The Link and Rosebud Park.
- Richland Park Addition: brick ranches from 1950 to 1953 along Kingsbury Avenue and Scruggs Park Drive, where homes of that age often still have some original supply and drain piping.
- Richland Hills Addition: larger 1950s one-story ranches on Labadie and Jonette, set on third-acre lots.
- Willman Addition: homes from about 1950 on Glenview Drive, some of the oldest in town.
- Leigh Jennifer Addition: duplexes and small multi-unit buildings from the 1980s on Evergreen Road, where each unit may have its own water heater to maintain.
- Baker Landing: two-story D.R. Horton homes from 2023 to 2024 near Baker Boulevard that need new-home maintenance.
- Richland Crossing: newer two-story builds on Blue Jay Way where routine water heater flushing and fixture adjustments come up.
Book a Licensed Richland Hills Plumber
Our plumbers work under Texas license M-37665, issued by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners (TSBPE), and we pull permits wherever Richland Hills requires them. Every job gets a flat-rate price upfront, and nothing starts until you approve it. We're open 24 hours a day, every day.
For a whole-house repipe, financing can spread out the cost. The Stetson Select membership covers routine checkups. Call (817) 405-4575 or request service.