Leaks, drains, toilets, water heaters, repipes and gas work: which one you've got, and what happens next.
If you smell gas, don't call us first. Get everyone out, don't touch switches or appliances on the way, and call 911 or your gas utility from outside. Call us once they've made it safe.
Water you can't stop, sewage coming up, or a leak you can hear in a wall. Shut off the water at the main if you can, and call now. Our plumbing repair page has more on telling a call-now from a call-Monday.
A slow drain, a running toilet, a drip a bucket can keep up with. Annoying, not urgent. Call during office hours or send a request. The repair page explains what these usually turn out to be.
No hot water, or water around the water heater. Start with water heater repair and replacement. Thinking about going tankless? Here's what it needs to work well.
The house keeps springing leaks. When patching the next leak stops making sense, it's a repipe conversation. Call and ask for someone to come and look.
Most of our plumbing calls are ordinary, necessary work: toilets that run or rock, shutoff valves and supply lines, faucets, drains, outdoor hose bibbs, garbage disposals and water heaters. We also do repipes, backflow preventer repair and replacement, gas work, and toilet and fixture installation.
An Air & Energy plumber does the work, in a marked truck, on our payroll; we don't subcontract. If the job needs a permit, we pull it and close it. Plumbing is one of four trades we run in-house, which matters when a job turns out to be two, like a water heater that needs a circuit it doesn't have.
Monday to Friday, 8 to 5, our office answers. Describe what the water is doing; we'll give you the fee for that kind of visit before we send anyone, and book it.
Nights and weekends, we run emergency service. Your call goes to our automated on-call line, which takes a message for the Air & Energy technician on duty, and the technician calls you back.
The request form is for things that can wait. It starts a request; it doesn't reserve a visit time.
License and gas certification, pipe materials, warranty — the difference between a plumber who finds the real problem and one who just sells inventory.
We don't publish plumbing repair prices, because "a leak" is a symptom, not a job. Most of our repair visits are billed time and materials, which we prefer: you pay for the time and parts the job actually took. Some work is priced flat. You hear the scope and the billing basis before anything starts, and after-hours rates are disclosed up front. Estimates for new installations are free, and our workmanship is guaranteed for one year, in writing.
More detail on how a plumbing repair is billed. Our general approach to pricing, and what our AC replacements have actually cost, are on how we price.
We've been working on houses around here since 1983. In the twelve months to September 2026, our plumbers made about 1,800 service visits. A few things from that work:
Air & Energy holds Florida plumbing and gas certification under one company license, CFC1429106; check it at myfloridalicense.com.
Do you handle plumbing emergencies at night or on weekends?
Yes. We run emergency service on nights and weekends, through our automated on-call line; the technician on duty calls you back.
Is there a charge to come out?
Yes, on a repair call, and it depends on the kind of work. Ask when you call and we'll tell you before we send anyone. Estimates for new installations are free.
Should I repair my water heater or replace it?
If the tank itself is leaking, replace it. Other failures are often repairable. Our water heater page walks through it.
Where's my main shutoff?
Usually where the water line enters the house, or at the meter. If you don't know, ask the plumber to show you while they're there.
Do you cover Lakewood Ranch and Parrish?
Yes: all of Lakewood Ranch, including the Sarasota County side like Waterside and Windward, plus Parrish, Bradenton, Palmetto, Ellenton and the rest of Manatee County.
Call and describe it. We'll tell you what it's likely to be, what the visit costs and when we can get someone there, before you commit to anything.