Available After Hours | Dispatch Around the Clock | No Overtime Premium Nights, Weekends, or Holidays
Emergencies here cluster around two things: winter and old pipes. A hard freeze along the river in Lemoyne, Wormleysburg, and New Cumberland splits supply lines in crawl spaces and unheated garages, usually overnight and all at once. The rest of the year, a lateral finally gives up under a house that has been on the same clay since the 1920s. We handle every plumbing emergency with same-day response and upfront pricing.
The first thing an emergency plumber owes you is not a repair. It is containment.
Every minute a supply line runs behind drywall or a main line backs up into a basement, your bill grows in a category insurance handles poorly and slowly.
That is why we answer with a person rather than a voicemail box, at 2 am as readily as at 2 pm. It is also why we do not charge more for after-hours work. An overtime premium sounds like a fair way to price inconvenient labor. In practice, it teaches you to wait until Monday, and waiting is what turns a repair into a restoration.
We are the company that would rather take a small job at midnight than a large one on Wednesday.
A burst supply line, a failed heater, and a collapsed lateral all present as emergencies, and none require the same repair. We handle water heater repair, sewer line repair, leak detection, and drain cleaning from the same trucks, so the follow-up is not a handoff.
Call The Team at Leaps and Bounds
If water is moving right now, contact us and a person will pick it up. If it can wait until morning, book online and take the confirmed time window instead.
Call us immediately for a burst or actively leaking supply line, sewage backing up into the house, no water anywhere in the building, or a water heater leaking from the tank body. If you smell gas near an appliance, call the utility first and us second.
A slow drain, a running toilet, or a dripping faucet can wait for a scheduled visit at a scheduled price. 9% of American homes have leaks that waste 50 gallons or more per day, according to the EPA Fix a Leak Week data, and most of that is this kind of quiet, non-urgent waste. Worth fixing. Not worth a midnight call.
“Prompt, courteous, informative and honest. I will definitely use it again.”
Derick R.
Our Emergency Plumbing Process
An emergency call follows a fixed order because skipping steps under pressure turns small failures into large ones.
Isolate. Your main shutoff, a fixture stop, or the water heater cold inlet, whichever stops the flow fastest.
Identify. Supply side or drain side, because those are two different trucks and two different repairs.
Stabilize. A temporary repair that holds tonight is often the right answer, with the permanent fix priced and scheduled in daylight.
Document. What failed, why, and what else on the same system is likely to follow it.
That last step is the one most after-hours calls skip. A pinhole in one section of aging copper is rarely the only one, and you deserve to know that before deciding how far to take the repair.
Why Choose Leaps and Bounds for Emergency Plumbing
We founded this company in 2022 and operate from 311 S 10th Street in Lemoyne and 711 McKenzie St in York, with more than 20 years of plumbing service experience. Two locations make overnight coverage across seven counties a schedule, not a promise.
Licensed and insured. Home Improvement Contractor registration #PA189570 with insurance coverage for added peace of mind.
A real person answers. Our answering service connects you with a human who can help dispatch service at any time.
No overtime premium. Emergency calls cost the same at midnight, on Sunday, or on Christmas.
Temporary fixes when appropriate. If waiting until morning makes more financial sense, we will tell you honestly.
Financing available. We work with Wells Fargo, Synchrony, Wisetack, and Service Finance, subject to credit approval.
Emergencies are the one part of this trade where the choice is made under pressure, which is why we removed as much pressure from it as we could. The phone reaches a person, the price does not change with the hour, and the first thing we do is stop the water.
Call us now at (717) 208-4412 if something is actively failing, or book a daylight visit if it has been caught in time.
That depends on where you are and what else is running, and we will tell you a real window rather than a comforting one. Calls in Lemoyne, Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg, and across into Harrisburg run from our Lemoyne shop. York, Hanover, and Gettysburg calls run from York, which means nobody is crossing the river at two in the morning to reach you. While you wait, we will talk you through shutting off the water, which is usually worth more than 15 minutes of drive time.
Do you charge extra for nights, weekends, or holidays?+
No, and this is deliberate rather than promotional. Most companies in this region add an after-hours premium, which quietly encourages you to sit on a failure until business hours. That waiting is where the expensive damage happens. Our rate at two on a Sunday morning is the same as on a Tuesday, so the only thing that decides when you call is the problem itself.
What should I do during a plumbing emergency before a technician arrives?+
Shut off the water at the main if you can find it, and if you cannot, shut off the stop under the affected fixture. For a leaking water heater, close the cold inlet valve on top of the tank. Kill power to anything electrical near standing water at the breaker. Move what you can off the floor. If you smell gas, leave the building and call the utility company before calling us.
Why are plumbing problems common during winters in South Central Pennsylvania?+
Supply lines sit in crawl spaces, unheated garages, and against exterior walls in the older river borough housing. They freeze overnight, the ice expands, and the split does not show until the line thaws and pressurizes again, which is why the calls come in waves the day after a cold snap. If a fixture stops flowing during a freeze, do not wait for it to thaw on its own, because that is the moment the leak starts.
Can I get an estimate over the phone at midnight?+
For common failures, we can give you a realistic range before we leave the shop, and we would rather do that than have you agree to an unknown number under stress. The firm price comes once someone has eyes on the failure, and it is fixed before any work starts. What we will not do is start work and price it afterward.
