Temple Plumbing Services
Temple Plumbing Services
Licensed Master Plumber serving Temple, west Temple and the Belton Lake corridor. Surface-water and hard-water experience, upfront pricing and 24/7 emergency response.
Veteran Owned
Proudly Serving Texas
Top Rated
Local Service Winner
Master Plumber
RMP# 42981
★★★★★ 5.0 on Google
160+ five-star reviews from homeowners across Central Texas
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Great job. Great service. Fair price
Jimmy Palmer
10/22/2025Aaron was excellent! He was communicative and quick to resolve our clogged wastewater service line. The pricing was fair and I wouldn’t hesitate to call Plumb Texan again if I had a plumbing issue.
Grayson Roberts
06/12/2025I had the best experience with Aaron I highly recommend him to anybody looking for plumbing services. Thank you Aaron so much for your help and coming out so late. I appreciate you😁🙏🏼
Phylicia Martinez
10/19/2025 -
Excellent service! Needed help quickly and he came through. Recommend and I will use them all the time.
Ryan Clinton
03/07/2026When I discovered a leak under my kitchen sink I reached out to Aaron. I got a prompt response with a service call scheduled within a few hours. When Aaron arrived, he assessed the situation, repaired the leak and replaced my faucet and broken garbage disposal, all in less than an hour. Aaron has always been courteous and accommodating. Plumb Texan will always have my business.
Holly Fullmer
03/24/2026What terrific service! The problem is fixed, comes with a service guarantee and an explanation of what I can do to keep plumbing visits to a minimum. This is the kind of business I like to support!
Renda Murphy
04/02/2025 -
Aaron is very courteous, communicative, and professional. I am very happy I reached out to him with my irrigation plumbing problem. He goes above and beyond and his prices are totally fair. I highly recommend his services.
Joe Moorman
03/06/2026Highly recommended! Aaron was very responsive, knowledgeable and took time to explain everything. If your looking for top notch service contact Aaron.
Rosemary G.
02/19/2026I was referred to this plumbing company and I’m really glad I gave them a call. They were professional, showed up when they said they would, and got everything fixed quickly without trying to upsell or overcomplicate the job. You can tell they take pride in their work. It’s refreshing to work with a locally owned company that’s honest, reliable, and fairly priced. I’ll definitely be using them again and recommending them to others.
Jeneva Tobola
02/20/2026
Why Temple Homeowners Trust Plumb Texan
Temple is not one plumbing market, it is three of them stacked on top of each other. Downtown and the older east side grid went in when cast iron drains and galvanized supply were simply what you used. The ring of neighborhoods built around it in the 1960s and 70s went in on slab, and those slabs are now old enough that the original copper underneath them is failing on schedule. Then west Temple has been building flat out for a decade, which means PEX manifolds, tankless units and builder-grade valves that all come due right about the time the warranty runs out.
The other thing that sets Temple apart from most of our service area is where the water comes from. The City of Temple water treatment plant draws surface water from the Leon River rather than pulling groundwater out of a well field. Surface water behaves differently in your pipes than aquifer water does, and it changes both which problems you are likely to have and which filter is actually worth buying.
One thing we want to be straight about: Plumb Texan is a licensed Texas Master Plumber (RMP# 42981). We are not a licensed on-site sewage facility contractor, and we do not install, repair, pump or service septic systems — Texas licenses that trade separately from plumbing. Plenty of property on the county side of Temple is on septic, so if your problem turns out to be the septic system rather than the house plumbing, we will tell you plainly and point you to a licensed septic contractor instead of guessing on your dime.
Downtown Temple and the Historic District
The oldest building stock in the city, and the plumbing reflects it. Expect original cast iron drains, galvanized supply still hiding in walls, and clay sewer laterals under mature trees that have been finding those joints for fifty years. Add undersized supply lines feeding modern fixtures and grease loading in the commercial buildings, and you get repeat backups that no amount of cabling will permanently fix.
Western Hills
Temple ISD, and largely 1960s and 70s slab-on-grade construction. That era matters: the original copper run under the slab is now at the end of its service life, and the first sign is almost never a puddle. It is a warm spot on the floor, a water heater that runs constantly, or a bill that jumped a hundred dollars for no reason anybody can explain. Cast iron drain stacks in these homes are on the same timeline.
Wildflower Country Club and Wildflower Estates
Established homes on larger lots with mature canopy and heavy irrigation. Root intrusion into older laterals is the recurring call. These houses also tend to have long hot water runs and often two heaters, which is why recirculation is worth getting right here instead of waiting ninety seconds at the far bathroom. Irrigation backflow assemblies on these properties need testing, and most of them have not been.
Hills of Westwood and Lake Pointe
West Temple new construction, Belton ISD, and a very different set of problems. PEX manifolds and tankless units instead of copper and a tank. Nothing is worn out yet, so what we see is the first post-warranty round: builder-grade angle stops that seize, toilet fill valves that will not shut off, and tankless heat exchangers that were installed four years ago and have never once been descaled on Central Texas water.
Canyon Creek, The Grove and Legacy Ranch
The growth edge, and the part of Temple where you genuinely have to ask who supplies your water. Properties out here may be on the city system or on a rural water supply corporation, and static pressure can differ noticeably from one block to the next. Out past the city line you are also likely on septic rather than sewer, which changes what a slow drain actually means.
Our Affordable Plumbing Solutions
Water Heaters
Temple’s surface water still carries plenty of hardness. We flush, repair and replace tank and tankless units, and we descale tankless systems that were installed and then never serviced again.
Explore Water Heaters →Drain Cleaning
Clay and cast iron laterals under downtown and Western Hills, and root intrusion under Temple’s older canopy. We camera the line so you know what you are actually paying to fix.
Explore Drain Services →Water Softeners
Softening and filtration sized for City of Temple surface water or for a rural water supply corporation line, so the system is not regenerating around the clock.
Explore Filtration →Gas Lines
Natural gas through most of Temple and propane out on the county side. We install, test and repair gas and propane lines for ranges, heaters, pool heaters and outdoor kitchens.
Explore Gas Lines →Leak Detection & Repair
Slab leaks in the 1960s and 70s slab neighborhoods, long county service lines, and January freeze breaks. We locate the leak before we open anything up.
Explore Leak Repair →Emergency Service
Burst lines, no water, backed-up drains and water heaters letting go at midnight. We answer around the clock across Temple and Bell County.
Get Emergency Help →What Is Actually In Temple’s Water
Every public water system in Texas has to publish an annual water quality report and make it available to customers. Around Temple the first question is whose report you should even be reading. The City of Temple serves most of the city, but Dog Ridge Water Supply Corporation, 439 Water Supply Corporation and several Bell County water districts serve pieces of the Temple area, and each one publishes separately. Step one is looking at whose name is on your water bill. We are not here to scare anybody about tap water, we are here to tell you what the report means for the pipes in your house and where a filter is worth the money.
Surface Water Means Disinfection Byproducts
Temple treats surface water from the Leon River, and surface water carries far more organic material than well water does. When chlorine meets that organic material it forms disinfection byproducts, principally total trihalomethanes and the five regulated haloacetic acids. These are the health-based numbers on the report actually worth your attention. EPA sets the limits at 0.080 mg/L for total trihalomethanes and 0.060 mg/L for haloacetic acids, reported as a running annual average rather than one sample on one day. They are regulated because long-term exposure above those limits is a health concern, which is why they are limits and not suggestions. Activated carbon at the point of use is the normal way to bring them down at the tap.
See Filtration Options →Taste, Odor and Seasonal Turnover
Surface supplies change with the season in a way groundwater never does. When a reservoir turns over, naturally occurring compounds produced by algae can push an earthy or musty taste and smell through the whole system while every regulated number stays comfortably in compliance. It is a nuisance rather than a violation, and it is the single most common reason Temple homeowners call us asking about filtration. Carbon handles it well and does not need to be a whole-home system to do it.
See Filtration Options →Hard Water and Scale
Central Texas water is hard and Temple is no exception, even coming off the river. Hardness is calcium and magnesium. It is not a contaminant, it never shows up as a violation, and it will not hurt you. It is also the single most expensive thing about owning plumbing here across a ten year window. Scale shortens water heater life, seizes angle stops and toilet fill valves, plugs aerators and shower cartridges, and is genuinely brutal on a tankless heat exchanger that nobody ever descales.
See Softener Sizing →Boil Water Notices Around Temple
Temple notices tend to be localized rather than citywide, and they follow line work and breaks. In January 2026 the city issued a precautionary boil water notice covering a short stretch of homes on E. River Drive and rescinded it after testing came back clean. In March 2026 a line break on Pecan Drive triggered a TCEQ boil water notice for Dog Ridge Water Supply Corporation customers. That is the pattern here: small footprint, tied to a specific break, lifted once the lab clears it. And if you are on a rural water supply corporation rather than city water, your notice comes from them and not from the city.
What A Boil Water Notice Actually Means
It is not an announcement that your water is contaminated. It means the system temporarily lost the ability to prove that it is not. The triggers are a loss of system pressure, a backflow incident, or a bacteriological sample the lab flags. Pressure is the usual culprit. When a main breaks, pressure in that zone falls, and groundwater sitting around the cracked pipe can be drawn in instead of pushed out. TCEQ requires the notice to stay up until the system flushes, re-samples and gets clean results back, which is why a two hour repair can carry a two day notice.
What To Do During One, And After
Bring water to a rolling boil and hold it there two full minutes before drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, making ice or filling pet bowls, or use bottled instead. The ice maker and the coffee maker are the two everybody forgets. When the notice lifts, run every cold tap for several minutes, dump the first few batches of ice, and change your point-of-use filter cartridges. A cartridge that was filtering water during a pressure-loss event is not one you want to keep using. If the outage ran long, flushing the water heater is worth the twenty minutes.
Temple Plumbing FAQs
Do I actually need a water softener in Temple?
Most Temple homes benefit from one, but the honest answer depends on what is bothering you. If it is spotting on glassware, crusted aerators, short water heater life and soap that will not lather, that is hardness and softening is the fix. If it is taste, smell or a musty season, that is carbon and not a softener. We would rather test your water and count your fixtures than sell you the biggest unit on the truck.
My water bill jumped and I cannot find a leak anywhere. What now?
In the older slab neighborhoods that is the classic slab leak presentation, and it is why we lead with detection rather than demolition. Before anything gets opened up we isolate the system, check whether the loss is on the supply side or a running fixture, and locate the leak. A slab leak found properly is a small repair. A slab leak found by guessing is a jackhammer and a bad week.
My water tastes earthy or musty. Is something wrong with it?
Usually not, and usually it is seasonal. Temple is on surface water, and when a reservoir turns over, algae byproducts can put an earthy or musty taste through the system while every regulated contaminant stays in compliance. It is an aesthetic problem, not a safety one. Point-of-use carbon filtration handles it and costs a fraction of a whole-home system.
Who actually supplies my water out here?
Depends on the address. Most of the city is City of Temple, but Dog Ridge Water Supply Corporation, 439 Water Supply Corporation and several Bell County water districts all serve parts of the Temple area. It matters more than people expect, because your water quality report, your pressure and your boil water notices all come from whoever is on the bill.
Do you service septic systems?
No, and we would rather say so up front. Texas licenses on-site sewage facility work separately from plumbing, and Plumb Texan holds a Master Plumber license (RMP# 42981), not a septic license. We work on your house plumbing and we will diagnose whether a problem is plumbing or septic, but any repair, pumping, replacement or drain field work on the septic system itself needs a licensed septic contractor.
Do you charge to tell me what is wrong?
You get a straight diagnosis and upfront pricing before any work starts, so you know what the repair costs before you agree to it. No surprise invoice at the end, and no talking you into a replacement when a repair will hold.
Ready to Get It Handled?
Tell us what the house is doing and we will tell you what it usually means in Temple. Straight answers, upfront pricing, and a licensed Master Plumber on the job.
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