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Plumbing for lake homes at Smith Mountain Lake
Owning a lake home is not the same as owning the house you sleep in. The water sits in the pipes for weeks while you are gone, the plumbing runs out to a dock, and half the year the house is closed. We plumb for that. Sun Valley Services works the lake homes around Smith Mountain Lake year round, day or night.
LicenseClass A licensed, VA #2705161865
HoursOpen 24 hours, 7 days
WhereMoneta and Westlake, Union Hall, Huddleston, Hardy, Wirtz, and the coves around Smith Mountain Lake in Franklin County
PricingYou approve the price before we start, day or night.
Second homes
When the house sits empty
A leak in an occupied house is a bad afternoon. In a house nobody enters until the weekend, the same leak runs for days before anyone knows. That is the plain risk of owning at the lake and living somewhere else, and it is what most of this work comes down to. A large share of the homes here are seasonal: 39.5 percent in Union Hall, 28.8 percent along Gills Creek, 18.1 percent in Westlake Corner (ACS 2024 five-year estimates). If your place is one of them, you already know the drive back is too long to make on a hunch.
We take the call whether you are up the road or three hours away. Give us a key holder or a neighbor and we can get in, find the problem, and tell you what we found before any work starts. If a pipe has already let go, call us, day or night.
Shoreline
Sewer lines near the shoreline
Franklin County requires septic systems within 500 feet of the Smith Mountain Lake shoreline to be pumped out or inspected every five years. Most lake owners find out about the rule the hard way. When that inspection turns up a broken or root-cut sewer line, the line is plumbing work, and we repair and replace it. Tank pumping and hauling is a septic hauler’s job, not ours, and we say so up front rather than send you a bill for the wrong trade.
Waterfront
Dock and boathouse water lines
The water line that runs down to the dock or boathouse is the part most plumbers never think about. It is the first thing to freeze and split, and the last thing anyone drains before winter. We run, repair, and blow out dock and boathouse water lines, and draining them is part of closing the house down in fall.
Private wells
Lake homes on a well
Public water around the lake runs along the Westlake and Rt 122 corridor and a handful of subdivisions. Past that, lake homes are on private wells, and a second home on a well has its own failure list: a pump that quits while you are away, a pressure tank that waterlogs, a system that sat unused all winter. We repair and replace well pumps and pressure tanks, on the same page as the winterization that drains them. See our well pump and pressure tank page.
Seasonal
Closing and opening the house
The two visits that keep a lake home out of trouble are the fall close-down and the spring open-up. We shut the water off and drain it out of everything that can freeze before the season turns, then bring it back up and check the system in spring before you trust it. It is a named service, not a favor: lake house winterization and spring start-up.
The lake corridor
Where we work
Around the whole lake in Franklin County: Moneta and Westlake, Union Hall, Huddleston, Hardy, Wirtz, and the coves in between. Town pages for Moneta and Westlake and Union Hall, or everything we do. This page expands the lake homes section on our main page.
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Tell us where the house is and what the water is doing. Not urgent? Get a call back today.
You approve the price before we start, day or night. Class A licensed.