We serve Hammond, Munster, Schererville and the surrounding area - Here are a few things worth knowing if your home is more than 40 years old
Hey r/nwi - we're ABC Plumbing. We serve Northwest Indiana alongside our Chicagoland operation and wanted to share something we see constantly in homes throughout the Calumet Region.
A lot of the housing stock in Hammond, Munster, East Chicago, and the surrounding communities was built in the 1940s through 1960s. Good bones, but the original plumbing is now 60-80 years old and most of it has never been touched.
Two things worth knowing if your home is in that age range:
Galvanized steel water supply lines. Galvanized corrodes from the inside, so you don't see it happening. It shows up as gradually reduced water pressure, discolored water when you first run a tap, or a noticeable gap between hot and cold pressure. A lot of homeowners in older NWI homes have accepted low pressure as just how it is, when it's actually the pipes.
Cast iron drain lines. The drain and sewer lines in homes this age are cast iron. They develop internal scale over decades and can crack. If you've had multiple slow drains at once rather than just one fixture, or occasional sewage smell in the basement, that's worth a camera scope before it becomes a backup.
Happy to answer questions about older homes in the area.