Johnston and Wake Counties
Plumbing for the whole house.
Acme Plumbing clears drains, stops leaks, and replaces water heaters across Johnston and Wake Counties — from a dripping faucet to a sewer line.
- 24/7 Emergency Service
- Licensed & Insured
- Upfront Pricing
- Serving Johnston and Wake Counties
What We Do
Drains, leaks, water heaters, and everything behind the walls.
From a dripping faucet to a full repipe, a good repair starts with finding what's causing the problem.
Repairs
Drains, leaks, toilets, faucets and the small failures that turn into big water bills.
- Drain Cleaning
- Leak Repair
- Toilets & Faucets
- Garbage Disposals
Water Heaters
Repair, replacement and tankless upgrades, sized for the household.
- Repair
- Tank Replacement
- Tankless
- Annual Flush
Pipes & Lines
Sewer lines, whole-house repipes and gas lines.
- Sewer Line
- Repiping
- Gas Lines
- Camera Inspection
After Hours
Burst pipe? No hot water? Give us a call.
If a pipe bursts or a drain backs up after hours, call our emergency line and tell us what's going on.
Call (555) 555-0101Protection Plan
Home Protection Plan
$12/month · cancel anytime
- Annual water heater flush and whole-home plumbing inspection
- Priority scheduling, ahead of non-members
- No overtime charges for after-hours service
- 10% off repairs
Featured Job
Sample: Tankless Water Heater Conversion
Clayton, NC
A 14-year-old leaking tank replaced with a condensing tankless unit and an upsized gas line.
View projectSelected Work
A few recent jobs.
Water heaters, repipes, sewer lines, and bathroom plumbing from across Johnston and Wake Counties.
Our Process
From your call to a dry floor and hot water.
You call or send a request, we come out and find the problem, go over the options with you, then do the work and follow up.
- 1
Call or Request
Tell us what's going on.
- 2
Diagnose
Find the real cause.
- 3
Options
You choose what happens next.
- 4
Fix or Install
The agreed work.
- 5
Stay Dry
Follow-up and maintenance.
Personal Service
The people you'll deal with.
Acme Plumbing is a plumbing business based in Clayton. Here's who runs it and who you'll talk to when you call.
Sam
Owner · Licensed plumber
Sam owns and runs Acme Plumbing, a plumbing business serving homes across Johnston and Wake Counties.
Riley
Dispatch & customer care
Riley answers the phone and schedules your visit, and is the person to call with questions about an appointment.
Reviews
What neighbors say.
“Water heater quit on a Sunday morning. They had a new one in by two that afternoon, pan and expansion tank included, and hauled the old one away.”
Dana R. · Sample review (fictional)
“Found a slab leak another plumber couldn't locate and rerouted the line through the attic instead of breaking up our floors.”
Marcus T. · Sample review (fictional)
“Repiped our whole house in three days and we never went a night without water. Walls patched so you can't tell.”
Priya S. · Sample review (fictional)
“The camera showed us exactly where the roots were before anyone quoted anything. Lined the pipe, saved the yard.”
Greg and Lisa M. · Sample review (fictional)
“Fair, upfront pricing. Told us the toilet just needed a new fill valve instead of selling us a new toilet.”
Tom H. · Sample review (fictional)
“Text when they're on the way, shoe covers, cleaned under the sink better than they found it.”
Alicia B. · Sample review (fictional)
Local
Built for North Carolina homes.
Based in Clayton, we serve homes across Johnston and Wake Counties — crawlspaces, slab foundations, older galvanized pipe and new PEX alike.
- Clay soil that moves
- Piedmont clay swells when wet and shrinks in drought, which shifts sewer lines and cracks older joints. We camera every slow main drain before recommending anything.
- Hard water
- Minerals shorten water heater life and clog fixtures. Annual flushes and the right anode rod add years to a tank.
- Crawlspaces and slabs
- Half the homes here sit on crawlspaces, half on slabs. Each fails differently — we've seen both a thousand times.
- Winter freezes
- A few hard freezes a year catch Johnston and Wake Counties homes with uninsulated spigots and crawlspace lines. We winterize before and repair after.
- Summer storms
- Heavy rain overwhelms old sewer laterals and floods crawlspaces. Sump pumps and backwater valves prevent the worst of it.
- Fast-growing towns
- New construction brings PEX and modern fixtures; the older streets still run galvanized and cast iron. We stock parts for both.
Let's get the water going where it should.
Tell us what's going on, and we'll get in touch to set up a visit.