Plumber in East Las Vegas
Fast, licensed plumbing in East Las Vegas — about 18 minutes from our Las Vegas shop. Drains, water heaters, leaks, repipes and 24/7 emergencies.
East Las Vegas runs along the Charleston Boulevard and Lake Mead Boulevard corridors — an established, mostly mid-century part of the city with deep roots and older bones. It's about 18 minutes from our Eastern Avenue shop, and we're over here constantly.
These aren't new houses, and that's exactly why the phone rings. Mid-century plumbing was built for a different era: thinner pipe, materials that have since aged out, and cooling systems that have been swapped from swamp coolers to AC without the plumbing being cleaned up. We sort all of it.
The housing east of downtown skews 1950s through 1970s, with plenty of ranch homes and small multiplexes. Aging galvanized and early-copper supply lines are common, along with the slow, scaled drains that come with age. Rusty water and dropping pressure usually point to a repipe rather than one more spot fix.
There's also a very Vegas issue out here: swamp-cooler-to-AC conversions. When an old evaporative cooler gets removed, the water line feeding it is often left capped in the attic or on the roof — a hidden leak waiting to happen. We handle proper swamp cooler removal and conversion so there's no abandoned line to fail later.
We work the streets off Charleston, Lake Mead and Eastern, from the neighborhoods near Bonanza Road out toward Nellis. A recent East Las Vegas job traced a mystery ceiling stain to an abandoned swamp-cooler line that had been left pressurized on the roof; we removed it properly and closed the system up.
Off Stewart Avenue we repiped a 1960s home where the galvanized had rusted to the point the hot side barely ran. New PEX brought the pressure back everywhere at once. For homes this age, that whole-house approach usually beats chasing leaks one at a time.
What East Las Vegas homeowners call us for:
Recurring pinhole leaks or old poly/galvanized pipe? A clean, permitted PEX repipe ends the patch-after-patch cycle for good.
Learn moreFrom root intrusion to collapsed clay pipe, we diagnose your sewer with a camera and fix it — trenchless where possible.
Learn moreConverting to refrigerated air? We handle the plumbing half — cap the roof water line at the source, remove floats and stop leaks.
Learn moreSlow or clogged drains cleared the right way — cabling or hydro jetting, plus camera diagnosis so it stays clear.
Learn moreNo hot water? We repair and replace tank and tankless heaters, and fight the hard-water sediment that kills them early.
Learn morePlumbing emergency at any hour? A real person answers 24/7 and we dispatch fast from our Silverado Ranch base — damage stopped first, price up front.
Learn moreThe homes along the Charleston and Lake Mead corridors are mostly 1950s–70s, and their plumbing carries both the usual age problems and one hazard specific to the desert.
On a 1960s East Las Vegas home where the galvanized has rusted to the point the hot side barely runs, patching one leak just moves the problem down the pipe. A PEX repipe brings pressure back everywhere at once and ends the rusty water for good — usually a one- to two-day job with minimal wall damage. We'll tell you honestly when you've crossed from 'fix the leak' into 'repipe the house,' and price it up front either way.
Very likely. The old evaporative-cooler supply line is often left capped in the attic or on the roof, and those forgotten lines fail and leak. We handle swamp cooler removal and conversion and cap it off right — details in our conversion plumbing guide.
That's corroded galvanized supply pipe shedding rust. It only gets worse, and it drops your pressure along the way. A whole-home repipe in PEX ends it for good, and we give you the price up front.
We do. Burst pipes and backups don't keep hours, so we run around the clock across the east valley. Call (614) 830-0578 anytime.
It comes down to the pattern. One isolated leak in decent pipe is a spot repair. But when the galvanized is rusting the water brown and dropping pressure house-wide, you're paying for repeated patches that each buy only a little time — and a whole-home repipe ends it in a day or two. We'll assess your lines and give you a straight, written recommendation, not a scare tactic.
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Read articleMike's Drain and Plumbing is based at 9480 S Eastern Ave in Las Vegas, just 18 minutes from East Las Vegas. Call for same-day and 24/7 emergency plumbing.
9480 S Eastern Ave, Las Vegas, NV 89123 — Get Directions → (614) 830-0578Serving Las Vegas, Enterprise, Henderson, Paradise, Spring Valley, North Las Vegas and all of Clark County, NV.
From clogged drains to burst pipes, Mike's Drain & Plumbing is minutes away with honest, up-front pricing. Call (614) 830-0578 for 24/7 service.
