Denver Metro Plumbing, Neighborhood By Neighborhood
20 neighborhoods where the age of the house tells us what is behind the wall before we open it.
Afford-A-Rooter Plumbing publishes a page for each neighborhood we work in most often, because the plumbing problem in a Denver bungalow is not the plumbing problem in a Broomfield ranch. Each page covers the construction era, the pipe material that era left behind, the failure that material produces, and the services those homes need.
Denver
Central and west Denver blocks where most of the housing stock predates the war. Galvanized supply, cast iron waste, and repipe work in occupied homes.
Baker
Victorian era cottages and terrace rows still running on galvanized supply and cast iron waste.
Barnum
Modest west Denver houses where a lot of the plumbing runs through an unheated crawlspace.
Capitol Hill
Converted mansions and walk up apartment blocks where one riser and one stack serve four floors.
Congress Park
Bungalows and squares built for one bathroom, most of them now carrying two or three.
Curtis Park
Denver's oldest surviving row houses, many split into duplexes, with risers and stacks buried in party walls.
Harvey Park
Mid century ranches, a good number of them on slab, where a supply leak hides under the floor.
Park Hill
Tudors and brick homes on wide lots, built across the era when galvanized gave way to copper.
Platt Park
Small bungalows on narrow lots, many carrying an added second storey on original supply piping.
Sloan's Lake
Surviving bungalows beside three storey townhomes, each needing a completely different kind of plumber.
Sunnyside
Original bungalows and brand new infill duplexes side by side, needing two completely different kinds of work.
West Highland
Brick bungalows and Denver squares with heavy remodel history and mixed pipe materials in one house.
Whittier
Century old brick homes carrying decades of partial repairs, where diagnosis is mostly archaeology.
Westminster
Our home city. The shop sits on North Dover Street, which makes these the shortest drives we make.
Countryside
Late century tract homes where the original copper, fixtures and water heaters are all reaching the same age.
Historic Westminster
The old Westminster core, minutes from our shop, mixing pre war cottages with early postwar bungalows.
Legacy Ridge
Larger, newer Westminster homes where the plumbing is sound and the appliances are the weak point.
Arvada
An old rail town core surrounded by postwar and late century subdivisions, so the pipe material changes street by street.
Broomfield
Postwar starter subdivisions and late century master planned neighborhoods sharing one city.
Thornton
Mid century tract housing north of the city line, much of it still on its original branch piping.
Northglenn
A planned postwar community built from repeating floor plans, which makes diagnosis unusually predictable.
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Not sure which page matches your block?
Call and describe the house. We will tell you what is probably in the walls before we get there.