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Where every picture here came from. Pictures about us are stock or illustrative; a plumber’s photographs are its own.

Our pictures

  • A white farmhouse sink under a sunny window, with deep blue cabinets and open shelves.

    Clay Banks, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A chrome hand shower on a veined stone wall, lit by raking window sunlight.

    Musmuliady Jahi, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • An old brass tap standing on a wooden table in soft light.

    Chandrakiran Gunesh, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • Live oaks arching over a quiet two-lane road.

    Dawn Casey, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A row of new copper pipe couplings, in shallow focus.

    Nic Wood, Pexels

    The original, under the Pexels License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • The front entry of a red-brick house, with a white portico and a wooden door.

    Angelica Hasbon, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A quiet East Texas street of brick ranch houses under tall pines, late afternoon. (illustrative image)Illustrative image

    Illustrative image, generated for this site

    Made with ChatGPT’s image tool; the output is ours under OpenAI’s terms.

    The prompt

    New, separate image. Photorealistic documentary photograph, wide 16:9 landscape. A quiet residential street in an older neighborhood of Longview, East Texas, late afternoon around 5:30 pm in October. Two-lane asphalt street with slightly cracked edges and no curb markings, wide lawns, modest 1960s-70s single-story brick ranch homes set back on both sides, tall loblolly pines and a few sweetgum and oak trees casting long shadows across the road, warm low sun raking from the left, soft haze in the air. Camera on the sidewalk edge, 50mm lens, f/5.6, eye level, natural color, lived-in details (a garden hose, pine needles in the gutter, a mailbox post with no lettering). No people, no faces, no readable text, no street signs, no house numbers, no logos, no visible license plates, at most one parked car far away. Not CGI, not a render, not HDR, not oversaturated, no perfect symmetry.

    Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A single drop of water forming at the tip of a faucet.

    Marco Palumbo, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A tidy water-heater closet with an unbranded tank, copper lines and a brass shut-off valve. (illustrative image)Illustrative image

    Illustrative image, generated for this site

    Made with ChatGPT’s image tool; the output is ours under OpenAI’s terms.

    The prompt

    New, separate image. Photorealistic interior photograph, 3:2 landscape. A tidy water-heater closet in a 1970s East Texas brick ranch home: one plain matte-white 50-gallon tank water heater with no labels, stickers or brand marks, copper supply lines with a brass quarter-turn shut-off valve, a white drain pan on a painted concrete floor, clean off-white painted walls, a louvered bifold wooden door folded open in the foreground edge. Soft natural daylight from a nearby hallway window plus a single warm ceiling light, gentle shadows, calm and well kept, nothing cluttered. Camera at chest height, 28mm lens, f/4, straight verticals, natural color, real-world texture (slight scuffs on the floor, paint brush marks). No people, no hands, no faces, no text, no labels, no logos, no warning stickers. Not CGI, not a render, not HDR, not oversaturated.

    Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A phone snapshot of a tank water heater in a garage, with water pooling on the floor around its base. (illustrative image)Illustrative image

    Illustrative image, generated for this site

    Made with ChatGPT’s image tool; the output is ours under OpenAI’s terms.

    The prompt

    New, separate image, square 1:1. A realistic smartphone snapshot taken by a homeowner: a standard white residential tank water heater standing in the corner of a plain garage, with a shallow puddle of water spreading across the grey concrete floor from its base, the wet edge irregular and reflecting the light. Mixed light: daylight from an open garage door on the left plus one bare ceiling bulb, slightly cool-neutral overall. Phone camera at about 1 m height, eye level, slightly tilted, ordinary wide phone lens, mild noise, natural imperfect framing, a few everyday garage items softly out of focus at the edges (a broom, a storage shelf). The tank is unbranded: no labels, no stickers, no brand marks, no text anywhere. No people, no hands, no faces. Real and a little imperfect, not staged, not HDR, not CGI, not oversaturated.

    Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A brushed-brass shower valve and hand shower on white hex tile.

    Clay Banks, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A kitchen sink full of suds in low golden sunlight.

    Sixteen Miles Out, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A hand turning on a chrome lever faucet over a white basin.

    Diva Plavalaguna, Pexels

    The original, under the Pexels License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A coil of copper tubing, close up, on black.

    Ra Dragon, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

  • A brass handwheel shut-off valve on an old galvanized pipe, in shallow focus.

    Jorge Avila, Unsplash

    The original, under the Unsplash License. Cropped and given the site’s one colour grade.

The plumbers’ own photographs

Each profile credits its own photographs where they show, including the ones from Google profiles and the AI-enhanced reconstructions, which are tagged.

  • A black and red work pickup with a ladder rack; the door reads Pither Plumbing, Trenchless Specialist, with license M-11425 on the fender.

    Pither Plumbing

    Photo: pitherplumbing.com, the company’s own website. Cropped to remove the phone number painted on the truck bed; then cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • Four men in work clothes dig out a pipe trench in a front yard; a white box van and a small excavator stand behind them.

    Fountain Plumbing, Inc

    Photo: fountainplumbinginc.com, the company’s own website. Cropped below the phone number painted on the van; then cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • White PVC drain lines laid out across bare ground, seen from above, before a concrete slab is poured.

    Jennings Plumbing

    Photo: jenningsplumbingllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A finished walk-in shower with white tile, a black rain head, a tiled bench and a pebble floor.

    Jennings Plumbing

    Photo: jenningsplumbingllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A worker sets tile on a bathroom wall above a tub, with tools and a bucket on the floor.

    Jennings Plumbing

    Photo: jenningsplumbingllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A finished bathroom with a white vanity, a framed mirror, a toilet and gray walls.

    Jennings Plumbing

    Photo: jenningsplumbingllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician in a navy company polo shakes hands with a homeowner inside the front door of a house.

    Alco Air Cooling, Heating and Plumbing

    Photo: alcoair.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician in work gloves runs a drain-cleaning machine at a doorway.

    American Plumbing Co.

    Photo: apctyler.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician in a company cap fits a new shower head on a white tiled wall.

    American Plumbing Co.

    Photo: apctyler.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • Two technicians thread a length of pipe on a stand in the company shop.

    American Plumbing Co.

    Photo: apctyler.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • Nine members of the crew in company shirts stand in front of a white box truck.

    Arrow Plumbing

    Photo: arrowplumbinglongview.com, the company’s own website. Cropped to leave out a second truck at the edge; then cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • Three tankless water heaters mounted side by side on an outside wall, with new copper and PVC lines below.

    East Texas Leak Locators & Plumbing Services

    Photo: easttexasleaklocators.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A hole cut through a concrete slab exposes a copper water line during a leak repair.

    East Texas Leak Locators & Plumbing Services

    Photo: easttexasleaklocators.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A newly installed tall gas water heater with copper piping in a utility room.

    Eschberger Plumbing Company LLC

    Photo: eschbergerplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A hand holds a new brass backflow assembly on a water line in an open trench.

    Eschberger Plumbing Company LLC

    Photo: eschbergerplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A finished walk-in shower with a sliding glass door and white marble-look walls.

    Eschberger Plumbing Company LLC

    Photo: eschbergerplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A new gas water heater installed in a narrow closet beside a bathroom.

    Glasscock Plumbing Services

    Photo: glasscockplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • Copper supply lines and a shower valve roughed in on a framed wall before drywall.

    Glasscock Plumbing Services

    Photo: glasscockplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A freestanding white tub with a floor-mounted faucet below a window.

    Glasscock Plumbing Services

    Photo: glasscockplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A gas water heater installed in a closet, with a yellow gas line and an expansion tank above.

    L&L Mechanical Services

    Photo: llmechanicalservicesllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A long trench across a front lawn with a new pipe laid in it.

    L&L Mechanical Services

    Photo: llmechanicalservicesllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A new white PVC P-trap and shut-off valves under a sink.

    L&L Mechanical Services

    Photo: llmechanicalservicesllc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician works on the gas valve at the base of a water heater, seen from above.

    Ledbetter Plumbing

    Photo: ledbetterplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A mini excavator digs beside a metal building, with a pile of red dirt in front.

    Ledbetter Plumbing

    Photo: ledbetterplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A water heater on a shelf above a sump tank with new PVC piping, inside a small utility closet.

    Lee's Plumbing

    Photo: leesplumbingtyler.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A corroded copper pipe with a hole in it, found in the dirt during a dig.

    Lee's Plumbing

    Photo: leesplumbingtyler.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A plumber kneels in a trench dug through a building floor to reach a sewer line.

    Lee's Plumbing

    Photo: leesplumbingtyler.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A tankless water heater installed in a recessed box on a brick outside wall.

    The Mink Plumbing

    Photo: minkplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician kneels by a house with drain-cleaning and camera equipment on the lawn.

    The Mink Plumbing

    Photo: minkplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A tankless water heater and a stainless water-filtration tank installed side by side in a closet.

    The Mink Plumbing

    Photo: minkplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • Two gas water heaters on a raised wooden platform, with new venting and gas lines.

    PrimeTime Plumbing

    Photo: primetimeplumbing903.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A shower valve and PEX lines roughed in on a framed wall in a house under construction.

    PrimeTime Plumbing

    Photo: primetimeplumbing903.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A new stainless workstation sink and a brass faucet set in a granite island.

    PrimeTime Plumbing

    Photo: primetimeplumbing903.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A man in a purple company shirt is greeted at the front door by a smiling homeowner.

    Royal Plumbing and Construction LLC

    Photo: royal.plumbing, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician in a yellow company shirt shakes hands with a homeowner at her front door; a dog sits beside them.

    Rub-A-Dub Plumbing

    Photo: rubadubplumbing.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A technician in a company T-shirt kneels to service a gas log fireplace in a living room.

    TDi Services

    Photo: tdiservicepros.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • The company crew, about forty people in navy shirts, lined up in front of their service trucks.

    TDi Services

    Photo: tdiservicepros.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A finished main bathroom with a freestanding tub, two vessel-sink vanities and a brick accent wall.

    Watson Plumbing, Inc.

    Photo: watsonplumbinginc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A walk-in shower with a frameless glass door, gray marble tile and a built-in bench.

    Watson Plumbing, Inc.

    Photo: watsonplumbinginc.com, the company’s own website. Cropped to leave out the black bars around the photo; then cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

  • A covered patio with an outdoor kitchen sink set in a stone counter beside a grill.

    Watson Plumbing, Inc.

    Photo: watsonplumbinginc.com, the company’s own website. cropped, given one light colour grade and resized. Nothing added or removed.

Type and icons

The display face is Switzer, by Jérémie Hornus; the spoken face is Gambetta, by Paul Troppmair. Both are from Fontshare, by the Indian Type Foundry, under the ITF Free Font License (Switzer’s, Gambetta’s), served as published, unmodified. The icons were drawn for this site.

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Where every number on this page comes from (4)
  1. The prompt this illustrative picture was generated from (content/images.json) chatgpt.com, retrieved 2026-10-04.
  2. The prompt this illustrative picture was generated from (content/images.json) chatgpt.com, retrieved 2026-10-04.
  3. The prompt this illustrative picture was generated from (content/images.json) chatgpt.com, retrieved 2026-10-04.
  4. Vora check: the TSBPE Responsible Master Plumber register (current licenses and the insurance date on file, Smith & Gregg counties) and each company's Google Business Profile tsbpe.texas.gov, license register, 3 Oct 2026.