The City Beautiful: cast iron drains under College Park bungalows and brand-new towers alike.
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Orlando plumbing is a tale of two housing stocks. The pre-1975 neighborhoods, College Park, Audubon Park, Delaney Park, sit on original cast iron drain lines that are now failing street by street, and the repipe-or-reline decision is the biggest plumbing check most of those owners will ever write. Everything built since runs the usual Florida rotation: slab leaks, water heaters in the garage hitting year ten, and drain calls after every holiday weekend.
The practical rhythm here: drain cleaning and disposals year-round, water heater failures in clusters (they were all installed the same year the subdivision went up), and the big-ticket work, repipes and sewer lines, driven by insurance carriers who increasingly will not renew a policy on original galvanized or polybutylene supply lines.
Everything is quoted on site, but for planning: a service call typically runs $89 to $150 (often credited toward the work), drain clearing $150 to $400, water heater replacement $1,200 to $2,500 installed, slab leak detection and repair $500 to $2,500, whole-house repipes $4,000 to $10,000 depending on size, and a routine septic pump-out $300 to $600. Emergency and after-hours calls carry a premium.
Florida carriers increasingly refuse to write or renew policies on homes with original polybutylene or galvanized supply lines, which is why repipes have gone from "someday" to "before the renewal date" for a lot of owners. If a low repipe bid seems too easy, ask who is pulling the permit, licensed contractors handle it as part of the job.
Florida homes built before the mid-1970s ran cast iron that is now at or past its 50-to-75-year life. If you see repeated backups, slow drains everywhere at once, or smell sewer gas, get a camera inspection: relining or replacement is a big check, but insurance and resale both increasingly demand it.
A warm spot on the floor, the sound of running water with everything off, or a water bill that jumped. Shut the water off at the meter and watch the dial: if it still spins, call it in as an emergency, slab leaks only get more expensive.
Much of Orange County outside the city limits runs on private wells and septic systems, and licensed septic contractors and pump-and-well outfits serve those properties alongside the plumbers listed here.