Faucet Repair & Installation in Houston, TX

Q: How long does it take to replace a kitchen faucet?

A straightforward swap takes a professional about an hour; add time if shut-off valves are seized, supply lines are corroded, or the mounting nuts are rusted to the sink, common in older Houston homes. We replace supply lines and shut-offs during installation when needed, so it is done once, correctly.

A dripping faucet never fixes itself. In Houston it gets worse faster than almost anywhere else, because our moderately hard water grinds away at cartridges, seats, and aerators every single day. We repair and install kitchen faucets, bathroom faucets, tub and shower valves, outdoor hose bibbs, and touchless fixtures across Greater Houston. If the fix turns out to be a $12 cartridge, that’s what we’ll tell you. We don’t sell replacements to people who need repairs.

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Faucet Repair & Installation Across Greater Houston

Repipe Solutions Inc repairs and installs kitchen faucets, bathroom faucets, tub and shower valves, outdoor hose bibbs, and touchless fixtures across Greater Houston, from our offices in Houston, Pasadena, and New Caney out to Katy, Pearland, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Cypress, Kingwood, Baytown, League City, Missouri City, and Tomball.

We’re a licensed Texas plumbing company (RMP Steven Shriver, License M-44251). Quotes are free, we never charge a trip fee, and same-day service is available. If the fix turns out to be a $12 cartridge, that’s what we’ll tell you. We don’t sell replacements to people who need repairs.

Local Water, Local Problem

Why Houston Water Is Hard on Faucets

Houston's tap water generally tests in the moderately-hard-to-hard range, roughly 7 to 9 grains per gallon of dissolved calcium and magnesium, depending on your neighborhood and whether you're on City of Houston water or a MUD. Every time water passes through your faucet, a trace of that mineral content stays behind.

Over a few years, that adds up to three predictable failures we see on service calls every week:

Scaled Cartridges

Mineral deposits build up inside the valve body and on the cartridge itself. The handle gets stiff, the cartridge seals wear unevenly, and the faucet starts dripping years earlier than the manufacturer intended. A cartridge that might last 15 years on soft water can fail in 5 to 8 here.

Clogged Aerators

The little mesh screen at the tip of the spout traps scale flakes. If one faucet in your house has weak flow while the rest are fine, a scaled aerator is the most likely cause, and in older homes, rust particles from aging pipes make it worse.

Frozen Valve Seats

On two-handle compression faucets, scale roughens the brass valve seat so the rubber washer can't seal against it. Replacing the washer alone stops the drip for a month; the seat has to be dressed or replaced to actually fix it.

None of this means you need a whole-house water softener to own a faucet in Houston. It means faucet maintenance here is a when, not an if, and a plumber who understands scale will fix the actual cause instead of just the symptom.

Every Fixture in the House

Faucet Types We Repair and Install

If it has a handle and water comes out of it, we work on it. Kitchen faucets take the heaviest use in the house and fail most often, but the ones that cause the most damage are usually the ones nobody looks at.

Kitchen faucets
Single-handle, two-handle, pull-down and pull-out sprayers, pot fillers, and bar/prep faucets
Tub and shower valves
Including pressure-balancing cartridges like the Moen Posi-Temp. A dripping tub spout is almost always a valve cartridge behind the wall, not the spout
Bathroom sink faucets
Centerset, widespread, single-hole, and wall-mounted lavatory faucets
Outdoor hose bibbs
Standard and frost-proof sillcocks, including replacement of bibbs split by the 2021 freeze
Laundry and utility faucets
The ones everybody ignores until a hose connection lets go
Touchless faucets
Sensor faucets need correct solenoid, battery or power, and clearance setup. We install and troubleshoot them

Know What You're Looking At

Diagnosing the Drip: What the Symptom Tells Us

Where the water shows up tells us what failed. Most faucet problems announce themselves in one of seven ways, and each one points at a different part. Match yours below, then read our guide on why a faucet leaks from the handle.

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Steady drip from the spout, two-handle faucet. Worn washer or seat (compression), or worn stem cartridges. We test each side by isolating hot and cold.

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Drip from the spout, single-handle faucet. Worn cartridge, or seats and springs on a ball faucet.

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Leak around the base of the spout. Spout O-rings, common on kitchen pull-downs that get swiveled constantly.

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Water under the sink. Usually supply connections or the sprayer hose, not the faucet valve at all. This is the leak that destroys cabinets.

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Tub spout drips after the shower's off. Shower valve cartridge behind the wall.

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Weak flow at one fixture only. Scaled aerator or clogged cartridge inlet screen; in pre-1970s homes, rust from galvanized pipe.

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Handle hard to turn. Mineral binding on the cartridge. Repair it now, before the drip starts.

What a Dripping Faucet Actually Costs You

The EPA estimates a faucet leaking at one drip per second wastes more than 3,000 gallons per year, about 180 showers worth of water. City of Houston combined water and wastewater rates run in the low teens per 1,000 gallons for typical single-family usage tiers, so a single slow drip quietly adds real money to your bill every year. A faucet that runs in a steady trickle instead of dripping can waste ten times that.

3,000+Gallons wasted per year by a faucet dripping once per second, per the EPA.

180Showers worth of water, gone. And Houston bills sewer charges on water usage, so you pay for it twice.

10xWhat a steady trickle wastes compared to a drip. The leak accelerates once the seal fails.

The bigger cost is usually what the drip does on its way down. Worn faucets often leak at the base or under the sink as well, and slow leaks inside a cabinet rot particleboard, feed mold, and can damage flooring long before you notice.

A $150 to $300 repair is cheap insurance against a $2,000 cabinet-and-floor claim.

The Four Faucet Valve Technologies, and How Each Is Repaired

Every faucet you will ever own uses one of four internal valve designs. Knowing which one you have determines the repair.

Compression (washer) faucets

The oldest design: two handles, and each one screws a rubber washer down against a brass seat to stop the water.

How it fails: the washer hardens and cracks, or the seat gets pitted by scale.

How we repair it: shut off supply, pull the stem, replace the washer and O-rings, then resurface or replace the valve seat with a seat wrench.

Cheapest parts of any faucet type, but also the design that drips most often. Houston scale eats the seats.

Ball faucets

A single handle rotating a slotted metal or plastic ball over spring-loaded rubber seats. Delta made this design famous in older single-handle kitchen faucets.

How it fails: the springs and rubber seats wear out, causing drips from the spout, or the O-rings wear, causing leaks at the base.

How we repair it: a rebuild kit that replaces the seats, springs, cam, and O-rings in one visit. If the ball itself is scored, it gets replaced too.

Cartridge faucets

A self-contained cylindrical cartridge controls flow and temperature. This is the most common design in American homes, and the entire repair usually comes down to one part.

How it fails: internal seals wear or scale binds the cartridge. Symptoms are dripping, a stiff or loose handle, or temperature that wanders.

How we repair it: pull the retaining clip, extract the old cartridge, grease and seat the new one, then index it so hot is actually hot.

Scaled Moen cartridges frequently seize in the valve body and need a puller. This is where DIY attempts turn into broken valve bodies.

Ceramic disc faucets

Two polished ceramic discs slide over each other to control flow. This is the most durable technology made, and it is what you will find in most current Kohler, Grohe, Kraus, and higher-end Delta and Moen faucets.

How it fails: rarely, but grit or scale between the discs can crack or score them, and the inlet seals under the disc assembly wear.

How we repair it: clean the inlet ports, replace the seals, or replace the disc cylinder.

One caution: ceramic disc faucets should never be forced closed. That is how discs crack.

Faucet Repair & Installation Cost in Houston

Every job is quoted up front, free, with no trip charge. Typical Greater Houston ranges:

Service	Typical cost
Washer / O-ring / seats & springs repair	$125 to $250
Cartridge replacement (kitchen or bath)	$150 to $350
Ball faucet rebuild (full kit)	$150 to $300
Tub/shower valve cartridge replacement	$175 to $400
Aerator / flow restoration & descaling	$95 to $175
Outdoor hose bibb replacement	$150 to $350
Frost-proof sillcock installation	$250 to $450
Bathroom faucet installation (fixture supplied)	$150 to $350
Kitchen faucet installation (fixture supplied)	$175 to $400
Touchless faucet installation	$250 to $500
Faucet replacement incl. mid-range fixture	$350 to $800
Add: new supply lines & shut-off valves	$75 to $150

Prices vary with access, faucet condition, and whether corroded shut-offs or supply lines need replacing, which we show you before any work starts. Manufacturer-warranty cartridges reduce the parts cost to zero on eligible faucets.

Repair It or Replace It?

A repair makes sense when the faucet body is sound and the fix is internal. A cartridge, a rebuild kit, or seats and springs typically costs $125 to $350 installed in Houston, a fraction of replacement, and with major brands the part itself is often free under warranty.

Rule of thumb: quality brand-name faucet less than 10 years old, repair it. Cheap or corroded faucet with recurring problems, replace it and buy once.

Replacement Makes Sense When

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The body is corroded or pitted. Once chrome flakes or the casting pits, seals will not hold for long no matter what you put inside it.

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It is a builder-grade faucet over 12 to 15 years old. You would be putting a $40 repair into a $60 fixture, and the next part fails within a year or two.

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Parts do not exist. Off-brand and imported faucets often have no available cartridges. If we cannot source the part, we will say so up front.

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You are paying for a second repair in under two years. Two repairs roughly equal the labor cost of an installation. Put the money toward a fixture with a lifetime-warranty valve instead.

Top Faucet Brands We Repair & Install

We carry and service all major brands. Here is what actually matters about each, including the warranty terms most homeowners never use.

Moen

Limited lifetime warranty

Built around serviceable cartridges. The Moen 1225 fits most single-handle kitchen and bath faucets going back decades, and the 1222 serves Posi-Temp tub and shower valves. Moen ships replacement cartridges at no charge to warranty-eligible original homeowners, so you pay only labor. Mid-price tier, excellent parts availability.

Weak point: old cartridges seize in scaled valve bodies and can require a puller to extract without damage.

Delta

Lifetime limited warranty

Two-handle Delta faucets use RP19804 seats and springs, one of the cheapest and fastest faucet repairs there is. Newer single-handle models use DIAMOND Seal Technology, a diamond-embedded ceramic disc valve Delta tests to 5 million uses. Delta supplies replacement parts free under warranty. Budget to mid tier with genuinely good valves even in inexpensive models.

Kohler

Limited lifetime warranty

Ceramic disc valves across most of the line, covering leaks, drips, and finish defects on residential faucets. Broad style range and solid brass construction on core lines. Mid to premium tier.

Weak point: proprietary GP-series replacement parts cost more than Moen or Delta equivalents and sometimes take longer to source.

Pfister

Pforever Warranty

A lifetime warranty covering both function and finish. Strong value tier with real ceramic disc valves at builder-grade prices.

Weak point: more plastic in trim and internals on entry-level models, so handles and sprayheads wear before the valves do.

American Standard

Limited lifetime warranty

Function and finish covered for residential owners. Durable ceramic disc cartridges, and one of the most common brands in Houston tract homes, so parts are easy to get. Budget to mid tier with more utilitarian styling.

Grohe

Limited lifetime warranty

German-engineered, with the SilkMove ceramic cartridge known for smooth, precise handle feel. Limited lifetime warranty for North American residential purchasers. Premium tier.

Weak point: parts cost more and fewer local suppliers stock them, so repairs can take an extra day if a part must be ordered.

Kraus

Limited lifetime warranty

Popular in kitchen remodels. Uses Kerox ceramic cartridges, a top-tier Hungarian cartridge maker, with strong spec-for-dollar value.

Weak point: shorter track record than the legacy brands, and warranty service is by mail rather than through local supply houses.

If your faucet is a Moen, Delta, Kohler, Pfister, or American Standard, ask us about the warranty before you pay for parts. We regularly install manufacturer-supplied free cartridges for Houston homeowners who did not know they were entitled to them.

Older Houston Homes: The Galvanized Pipe Problem

If your home was built before about 1970, common in the Heights, Oak Forest, Meyerland, Garden Oaks, Bellaire, and older parts of Pasadena and Baytown, there is a good chance the supply lines feeding your faucets are galvanized steel. Galvanized pipe corrodes from the inside out. It sheds rust that clogs aerators and jams new cartridges, it chokes water pressure, and the threaded connections under sinks become so brittle that a simple faucet swap can snap a fitting inside the wall.

If the problem keeps coming back, it is not the faucet

Replacing aerators and cartridges over and over on the same fixture points at the pipe feeding it, not the fixture itself. Rust debris from corroding galvanized lines re-clogs whatever you just installed.

Faucet work on galvanized lines needs a plumber, not a handyman

Brittle threaded connections can fail during a routine swap. That job needs someone prepared for the fitting to break, not someone who leaves you with an open pipe on a Saturday.

As Houston's repipe specialists, we can fix the faucet today and give you a straight, no-pressure assessment of the piping behind it. Every full repipe we install carries a lifetime warranty.

Outdoor Hose Bibbs and Freeze Damage

The February 2021 freeze, Winter Storm Uri, burst outdoor faucets and the pipes behind them all over Greater Houston, and we are still finding the damage today. A hose bibb split by ice often does not leak until the next time it is used, and sometimes the split is in the pipe inside the wall.

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Your outdoor faucet drips constantly.

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It sprays from the handle when you turn it on.

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Your water bill jumped after a hard freeze.

The permanent fix is a frost-proof sillcock

It places the actual shut-off valve 8 to 12 inches inside the heated wall, so no water sits in the exposed section. Installed correctly, sloped to drain with the hose removed in winter, it is the difference between covering your faucets every freeze warning and not thinking about it at all.

We replace standard bibbs with frost-proof models in a single visit.

Water Efficiency: Aerators and WaterSense

Two cheap upgrades pay for themselves fast in Houston.

Under $200 installed

New aerators

A clean, modern aerator restores flow, quiets splashing, and on bathroom faucets can cut flow from an old 2.2 gpm to 1.5 gpm or less with no noticeable difference at the handle.

1.5 gpm certified

WaterSense-labeled faucets

EPA WaterSense bathroom faucets are certified to use a maximum of 1.5 gallons per minute, about 30% less than the 2.2 gpm federal standard, while meeting independent performance testing. Replacing worn bathroom faucets with WaterSense models trims both the water and sewer sides of a Houston bill, since sewer charges are billed on water usage.

We install WaterSense fixtures on request and include a free aerator check with every faucet service call.

Signs It Is Time to Call a Plumber

Any one of these means the fix has moved past a washer and a wrench.

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Dripping continues after you have replaced a washer or cartridge.

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The handle is stiff, loose, or keeps turning past its stop.

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Water is leaking at the faucet base or under the sink.

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Rust-colored water or grit comes out of one fixture.

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Noticeably weak flow at a single faucet.

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Whistling, chattering, or banging when the faucet runs.

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Corrosion, pitting, or mineral crust on the faucet body.

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An unexplained jump in your water bill.

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Any outdoor faucet that dripped or sprayed after a freeze.

Quotes are free and we never charge to show up. Call (832) 662-4288 and a real person will get you on the schedule, same-day when we have the slot.

Our Process

Six steps, no surprises, and nothing starts until you have seen the price.

Call or request a quote

Free, and we never charge to show up. Call (832) 662-4288, with same-day appointments available.

Diagnosis you can see

We identify the valve type, isolate the leak, and check the aerator, supply lines, and shut-offs while we are under there.

Straight options and firm pricing

Repair versus replace, exact cost for each, and warranty parts identified, all before any work begins.

The repair or installation

Stocked trucks handle most cartridge, seat-and-spring, and standard installation jobs in one visit, typically one to two hours.

Test and clean up

We verify full flow, correct temperature indexing, and a dry cabinet, then leave the workspace cleaner than we found it.

Warranty on the work

Our labor is guaranteed, manufacturer warranties are honored, and full repipes carry our lifetime warranty.

Testimonials

What our clients Say about us

“Matthew was very polite and informative. He explained and showed me what the problem was and how he was going to fix it. He came out to my house and stayed till the job was complete. Would recommend 10/10.”

U.R.

“My go-to plumber! I look for someone who is reliable, stands behind their work, and doesn’t try to price gouge you! Was a great experience and will use him again!”

Timothy P.

“Repipe Solutions did an excellent job re-piping my 2-story house built in the 1940’s. They used legitimate Uponor PEX-A, completed the job in the time frame promised, and offered the best price.”

Jose H.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I fix a leaky faucet?

Shut off the water at the under-sink valves, plug the drain, and disassemble the handle to reach the valve, then replace the worn part: a washer and seat on compression faucets, seats and springs on ball faucets, or the cartridge on cartridge and disc faucets. Match the replacement part to your exact faucet model. If the part seizes, the drip continues, or you find corrosion, stop and call a plumber before a small repair becomes a broken valve body.

How do I replace a faucet cartridge?

Turn off the supply valves, remove the handle and retaining clip or nut, pull the old cartridge straight out, and press in the new one in the same orientation before reassembling. On Moen faucets, note the cartridge position first, because installing a 1225 rotated 180 degrees reverses your hot and cold. Scaled cartridges in older Houston homes often require a cartridge puller, and forcing them with pliers is the most common way homeowners destroy a faucet.

How much does faucet repair cost in Houston?

Most Houston faucet repairs run $125 to $350 depending on valve type and access, and tub and shower valve work runs somewhat higher. National data shows the same picture, with Angi putting typical leaky-faucet repairs between $60 and $400. We quote the exact price up front, free, with no trip charge.

Is it worth repairing a faucet, or should I just replace it?

Repair a brand-name faucet under 10 years old with a sound body. It is a fraction of replacement cost and the part is often free under warranty. Replace it if the body is corroded, parts are unavailable, or it is a builder-grade unit that has already needed more than one fix. We give you both prices and let the math decide.

How much water does a dripping faucet waste?

Per the EPA, one drip per second wastes more than 3,000 gallons a year, enough for about 180 showers. Because Houston bills sewer charges on top of water usage, you pay for that waste twice. A faucet running in a steady stream wastes many times more.

How long does it take to replace a kitchen faucet?

A straightforward swap takes a professional about an hour. Add time if shut-off valves are seized, supply lines are corroded, or the old faucet’s mounting nuts are rusted to the sink, all common in older Houston homes. We replace supply lines and shut-offs during installation when needed, so it is done once, correctly.

Do Moen and Delta really send free replacement cartridges?

Yes. Both back their faucets with limited lifetime warranties for the original residential owner, and both will supply replacement cartridges or repair parts at no charge for warranty-eligible faucets. You just pay for installation. We can identify your model and tell you whether your faucet qualifies before you buy anything.

Why does my faucet drip only at night, or seem worse at night?

It is dripping all day, you only hear it at night. Municipal water pressure also rises overnight when neighborhood demand drops, which pushes more water past a worn seal. Either way, the seal has already failed and the drip will accelerate.

Can a dripping outdoor faucet cause real damage?

Yes. Beyond wasted water, a leaking hose bibb keeps the adjacent foundation and siding wet, and a bibb cracked by a freeze, thousands of which split during the 2021 storm, can leak inside the wall where you will not see it. A frost-proof sillcock is a permanent fix that costs less than one drywall repair.

Do you charge a trip fee to look at a faucet?

No. Quotes are free and there is no trip charge anywhere in our Greater Houston service area, including Katy, Pearland, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pasadena, New Caney, Cypress, Kingwood, Baytown, League City, Missouri City, and Tomball.

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