San Marco is the lions in the Square, the galleries and restaurants around San Marco Boulevard, Friendship Fountain and MOSH on the Southbank, and street after street of 1920s Mediterranean and Colonial homes that make it one of Jacksonville's signature neighborhoods. The plumbing under those tile roofs is as vintage as the architecture, and the elevation near the river adds a wrinkle the postcard leaves out.
Nineteen-twenties beauty, river-level reality
The original San Marco housing stock carries cast iron drains and galvanized supply nearing their century mark, and remodels over the decades stacked new fixtures onto old bones. Our work here is surgical: repipes routed to spare plaster and picture rail, drain replacements phased room by room, and camera inspections that tell a buyer exactly what a lovely facade is hiding.
The wrinkle is water. The low blocks toward the river and the Southbank flood in serious storms, so backflow protection on sewer connections, check valves and flood-conscious water heater placement are conversations we have here more than anywhere else in the urban core. After the recent hurricanes, several San Marco streets learned which houses had them installed.
San Marco plumbing questions
That is the specialty this neighborhood demands. We route through closets, chases and attics first, open plaster only where no route exists, and cut openings sized for repair rather than convenience.
Emphatically. A camera scope with footage answers the biggest-ticket question a buyer's inspector will raise, and sellers who scope first control the repair on their own schedule and terms.
A backwater valve on the sewer lateral, so a surcharged main cannot push into the house, and a water heater elevated or relocated out of the lowest point. Both are modest jobs compared to what they prevent.
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