The goal of Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing is to install plumbing systems that meet our high expectations of workmanship and the expectations of quality by our customers – the builder and homeowner. We are not aiming to be the biggest plumbing company in the Metroplex, but certainly the best.

To that end, Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc. has in place quality control policies and procedures that go beyond the minimum requirements of city codes and inspectors.  These procedures include multiple walk-through inspections by management and quality control personnel prior to and after city inspection at every phase of the installation.

No one is more concerned about the compromise of a plumbing system than Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc.  Compromises to a home’s plumbing system can occur and are occurring on many fronts, anywhere from accidental harm from other construction trades at the site to intentional sabotage and vandalism committed against the system during construction of the home.

The frantic pace of construction in North Texas the past 10 years has only served to increase the opportunities and incidences of compromised plumbing systems.  Homeowners want to move in sooner and builders want to close faster – all of which puts more pressure on all the trades to work longer and faster.  It is an environment that breeds carelessness and mistakes.

Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc. is concerned, as are many others, about the rising number of insurance claims related to plumbing leaks as well as the rising instances of and costs associated with black mold mitigation.  Everyone is bracing for those claims to be passed on by the insurance carriers in the form of higher policy premiums and/or restricted claims coverage or no coverage at all.

Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc. believes that everyone in the industry – insurance carriers, builders, manufacturers, and plumbers – should take a proactive role in the prevention of excess loss claims, especially in an area as volatile as black mold. 

Accordingly Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc. extends the testing and inspection of our plumbing installations to further protect tem from compromises that might result in leakage or stoppage with the following procedures:

1.    Currently, city inspectors require the plumbing under the slab of a house to be water tested before the slab is poured.  The normal course has been to relieve the plumbing system of the test immediately after receiving a green tag on the test and prior to the forming up for the slab.

        Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc. extends the water test on the sewer lines until after the concrete crews have completed digging their beams and setting their forms.  We will pull our test after a final inspection of the plumbing by our management and just prior to the pouring of the slab.

Since the sewer lines will remain under pressure until the slab is ready to pour, there will be no opportunity for foreign objects to be put down the pipes and into the sewer system potentially causing a stoppage without our knowledge.  Additionally, any loose joints or fittings or problems with copper water lines should be identifiable.

2.    Currently, city inspectors require a water test on the sewer lines of the 2^nd floor only.  However Lasiter & Lasiter Plumbing, Inc. water tests all the plumbing of a single story and both levels of 2 story homes when the plumbing is topped out.  Additionally, we will leave our test on the house until the inspection for framing and plumbing is complete.

By leaving all the plumbing under pressure, small nail holes or other damage to the plumbing pipes should become identifiable prior to sheet rocking the house. Additionally, any loose joints or fittings in the system should be identifiable.

 We believe that these additional procedures greatly increases our ability to correct any deficiencies prior to the plumbing system being closed up and the homeowner moving in and, thereby, reducing the risk of claims of damage by homeowners as well as reducing the magnitude of damage claims that may still occur.