Commercial plumbing isn’t residential plumbing with a bigger invoice. It’s grease lines that can shut down a Friday dinner service, a slab leak under a tenant space with three businesses sharing the meter, and health inspectors who don’t reschedule. Texas Premier Plumbing has run commercial accounts across Houston since 1989 — call 713-955-1919 and talk to someone who’s actually crawled the ceiling of a strip center.
Who we do commercial work for
- Restaurants and food service. Grease trap lines, floor drains, gas lines to cooking equipment, and the 2 AM backup that can’t wait for morning. Half our commercial book is kitchens.
- Property managers and HOAs. One number for apartment laterals, unit turnovers, common-area restrooms, and the paperwork your owners want after every job.
- Retail and office. Restroom fixture repairs, water heaters, break rooms — scheduled around your hours, not ours.
- Medical and dental suites. Vacuum and compressed-air adjacent plumbing, ADA fixtures, and work that passes inspection the first time. Plenty of it around the Memorial City medical corridor.
- Light industrial and warehouses. Larger-diameter lines, roof drains, backflow assemblies, and yard hydrants.
The work itself
Day to day, commercial calls break into three buckets. Emergency service — backups, burst lines, no hot water in a building full of tenants — where response time is the whole job. Repair and replacement — commercial water heaters and boilers, flush valves, sensor faucets, gas lines, and sewer laterals that gave up. And prevention, which is where smart operators save real money: scheduled hydro jetting for grease lines, annual camera inspections on aging laterals, and backflow testing before the city letter shows up instead of after.
Why Houston commercial buildings keep plumbers busy
The same clay soil that cracks residential slabs shifts commercial laterals too — and a lot of Houston’s retail stock sits on lines poured decades ago. Add high-volume kitchens pushing grease into shared lines, tenants who flush what tenants flush, and summer ground movement, and a building that’s “never had a problem” is usually a building that’s never had a camera down the line. We’d rather show you the footage in March than meet your insurance adjuster in July.
Maintenance contracts that actually make sense
For restaurants and multi-tenant properties we set up recurring service: grease line jetting on a quarterly or semi-annual schedule, camera runs on a calendar, and priority dispatch when something breaks anyway. No padded retainer — you pay for the visits on the schedule, and the schedule is built around how hard your lines actually work. A taqueria and a law office do not need the same plan, and we won’t pretend they do.
After-hours by design
Most commercial work happens when your customers aren’t there. We schedule nights and early mornings as standard practice for occupied spaces — a restroom renovation that closes your lobby at 10 AM is a badly planned job, not a plumbing problem. And for true emergencies, the phone is answered 24/7, 365. That’s been true since 1989.
Commercial plumbing questions Houston businesses ask us
Do you handle permits and inspections?
Yes, start to finish. Master Plumber License #16188, and we pull the permit, meet the inspector, and hand you the paperwork.
Can you service multiple locations?
That’s most of our property-management work — one contact, one invoice format, every location in the Houston metro on the same account.
How fast is emergency response?
Commercial emergencies get the closest available truck immediately, day or night. An active backup in an operating kitchen jumps every queue we have.
How often should a restaurant jet its grease line?
Busy kitchens: every three to six months. We’ll look at your volume and your line and give you a straight schedule instead of the maximum one.
Do you work with tenants or only owners?
Both. We just need to know who approves the work and who gets the invoice before we start — and we put the quote in writing either way.
Get a commercial plumber who shows up
One storefront or forty units — call Texas Premier Plumbing at 713-955-1919. Family-owned, licensed, insured, and answering the phone around the clock since 1989.