# Olde Town Arvada Plumbing for Shops, Flats and Old Brick Three kinds of plumbing customer inside a few streets. A commercial kitchen, the flat above it, and the brick house behind it, all on infrastructure of a similar age. - Commercial kitchen drain and grease work - Residential repipes in century old brick - 24 hour response for businesses that cannot close ## What plumbing does Olde Town Arvada need? Olde Town Arvada is the historic centre of the city, and it mixes commercial storefronts, apartments above those storefronts, and older brick houses on the surrounding streets. That mix means a plumber here needs to handle grease loaded commercial drains, tenant fixtures, and residential repipes in the same week. Afford-A-Rooter Plumbing covers all three and works nights so businesses do not lose trading hours. ## Key takeaways - A commercial kitchen drain in an older building fails from grease accumulation rather than from any fault in the pipe itself. - An apartment above a shop shares its waste stack with the business below, so a kitchen problem downstairs becomes a resident's problem upstairs. - Older brick houses on the surrounding streets have the same galvanized and cast iron profile as the rest of the pre war Front Range. - Afford-A-Rooter Plumbing schedules Olde Town commercial work outside trading hours and answers emergencies 24 hours a day. ## Why do Olde Town restaurant drains keep blocking? Because grease does not stay liquid. It leaves the kitchen warm, cools in the horizontal run, and lines the pipe wall in layers until the bore is a fraction of its original size. Cabling punches a hole through that and buys a few weeks. Removing it takes water at pressure. [Hydro jetting](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/drain-cleaning/drain-hydro-jetting/denver-co) is the method that actually restores the line, and [commercial drain cleaning](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/drain-cleaning/commercial-drain-cleaning/denver-co) covers how we schedule it around service. Where an interceptor is fitted, [grease trap cleaning](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/grease-trap-cleaning/denver-co) and [grease trap pumping](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/grease-trap-pumping/denver-co) keep it doing its job instead of pushing the problem downstream. ## What do the flats above the shops need? Tenant fixtures and a share of the building's stack. The upstairs unit was usually added or converted long after the building went up, so its waste arms tie into whatever was reachable. When the kitchen below overloads the shared line, the first symptom is often upstairs, in a bathtub that will not drain. [Commercial plumbing services](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/commercial-plumbing-services/denver-co) covers landlord and tenant work together, and [sinks, faucets and toilets](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/sink-faucet-toilet-replacement-repair/denver-co) covers the fixture side of a residential unit above a business. ## What about the older houses around Olde Town? They are the same story as any pre war Front Range house. Homes of this era commonly used galvanized supply and cast iron waste, and the ones that were never updated show declining flow and slow branch drains. Afford-A-Rooter Plumbing does that residential work in Olde Town as often as the commercial calls. Start at [galvanized pipe replacement](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/galvanized-pipe-replacement) or, where the whole distribution is going, [repiping and pipe replacement](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/piping-replacement-and-repiping-services/denver-co). ## Olde Town Arvada by building type One Olde Town block can hold three different plumbing customers. This table sets out what each building type usually needs and when the work is best scheduled. | Building type | What it usually needs | What fails first | Best time to work | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Commercial kitchen or cafe | Jetting and interceptor service on a cycle | The horizontal grease loaded run | Outside trading hours, often overnight | | Retail unit with no kitchen | Fixture and small bore drain work | Restroom fixtures and supply stops | Early morning before opening | | Flat above a storefront | Tenant fixtures and shared stack access | The waste arm added during conversion | Daytime with tenant notice | | Older brick house nearby | Repipe and branch drain clearing | Galvanized supply and cast iron waste | Standard working hours | ## Olde Town Arvada plumbing services - [Hydro Jetting](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/drain-cleaning/drain-hydro-jetting/denver-co): The only method that removes grease from a commercial line rather than punching through it. - [Commercial Drain Cleaning](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/drain-cleaning/commercial-drain-cleaning/denver-co): Scheduled around service so the kitchen does not lose a night of trading. - [Grease Trap Cleaning](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/grease-trap-cleaning/denver-co): Keeping the interceptor working so the grease never reaches the building drain. - [Commercial Plumbing](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/commercial-plumbing-services/denver-co): Landlord and tenant work in mixed use buildings, with written scopes. - [Galvanized Pipe Replacement](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/galvanized-pipe-replacement): For the older brick houses on the streets around the commercial core. - [Emergency Plumbing](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/plumbing/emergency-plumbing-services/denver-co): A blocked drain during service is a closed business. We answer 24 hours. ## Olde Town Arvada and the rest of the city This page sits under our main [Arvada plumbing services](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/locations/avada-co) page, which covers the whole city. The [neighborhood plumbing directory](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods) has every neighborhood we publish and the [Denver metro service area list](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/locations) has the wider region. [Lake Arbor](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods/lake-arbor-arvada) is the later Arvada subdivision with a completely different profile. [Historic Westminster](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods/historic-westminster) is the nearest equivalent old core in the next city. Olde Town calls are usually [multiple drains clogged at once](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/multiple-drains-clogged-at-once) in a mixed use building, [sewage backing up into the shower](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/sewage-backing-up-into-shower) in a flat above a kitchen, and [sewer smell in the bathroom](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/sewer-smell-in-bathroom) from a trap that a commercial extract has siphoned dry. ### Nearby neighborhoods we cover - [Lake Arbor](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods/lake-arbor-arvada): Later Arvada subdivision - [Historic Westminster](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods/historic-westminster): The nearest equivalent old core - [Curtis Park](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods/curtis-park-denver): Comparable mixed use age in Denver ### Related problem and pipe material pages - [Multiple drains clogged at once](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/multiple-drains-clogged-at-once) - [Sewage backing up into the shower](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/sewage-backing-up-into-shower) - [Galvanized pipe replacement](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/galvanized-pipe-replacement) - [Arvada plumbing services](https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/locations/avada-co) ## Frequently asked questions **Can you jet a restaurant drain without closing the kitchen?** We schedule it outside trading hours wherever possible, which usually means overnight or early morning. The work itself is contained to the drain run and the clean up is part of the job. **The flat above my shop keeps flooding. Whose problem is it?** Usually the shared stack rather than either unit on its own. We scope the line and tell both parties what we found in writing so the responsibility is not a guess. **How often should a grease interceptor be serviced?** On a cycle set by how much the kitchen produces, not by whether it has caused a problem yet. Waiting for a backup means the grease has already reached the building drain. **Do you do residential work in Olde Town too?** Yes, and a great deal of it. The older houses around the commercial core need the same repipe and drain work as any pre war Front Range home. **Are you licensed for commercial plumbing?** Yes. Afford-A-Rooter Plumbing works under Colorado Master Plumber licence MP-18927 and Colorado plumbing contractor licence 2110. --- Source: https://www.affordarooterplumbing.com/neighborhoods/olde-town-arvada Afford-A-Rooter Plumbing, 10860 N Dover St STE 2300, Westminster, CO 80021. Phone +1-720-296-7972.