Kitchen, bath, laundry and outdoor tapsCalcium at 75 parts per millionNo brand partnership claimed
A dripping faucet is almost never the handle and almost always the cartridge or the seat it presses against. Las Vegas tap water is published at 280 parts per million of hardness, which is 16 grains per gallon.
Figures above are published third party data, not company claims. Sources: LVVWD water quality report, LVVWD water quality summary, USGS.
Faucets in the Las Vegas Valley fail from the inside. Mineral in the water grinds down the cartridge, the seats and the aerator screen until the tap drips, sticks or loses flow. Repair means replacing the internal valve rather than the whole fixture. It works wherever the cartridge for that brand and model can still be sourced.
This page covers faucet repair and installation across the Las Vegas Valley. If you are not sure this is the right service, start from All plumbing services.
A faucet rarely breaks in one moment. It gets stiff, then noisy, then it starts to drip when nobody is using it.
Below are the descriptions people actually give on the phone. Each one points at a different part inside the tap.
If the problem follows one tap and the rest of the house behaves normally, this is the right page. Kitchen, bath, laundry tub and outdoor hose bibbs all count.
It also covers the small parts under the sink, meaning the supply lines and the shutoff valves. Those are usually replaced during a faucet swap.
If pressure is weak at every tap in the house, no cartridge will fix it. That is a supply side problem and belongs with water pressure regulator replacement or pipe Repair in the Las Vegas Valley.
If hot water is weak or absent everywhere, the fixture is innocent. Start at water Heater Repair in the Las Vegas Valley instead.
Faucet work is mostly a choice between renewing the valve inside an existing fixture and putting in a new one. The parts under the sink often need attention either way, since they are the same age as the tap.
| What is included | What that means |
|---|---|
| Cartridge replacement | The internal valve that controls flow and temperature is swapped, which is the fix for most drips, stiff handles and temperature drift. |
| Seat and spring service | On two handle faucets the small seats and springs under the cartridge are renewed, because a new cartridge on worn seats drips again quickly. |
| Aerator and spout cleaning | The screen at the end of the spout is removed, descaled or replaced, which is the cheapest cure for a weak or scattered stream. |
| Supply lines and shutoffs | The flexible connectors and the angle stop valves under the sink are replaced during a fixture swap, since old stops often refuse to close. |
| Full faucet replacement | The old fixture comes out, the counter holes and deck plate are checked against the new one, and the new tap is set and sealed. |
| Sprayer and hose repair | A pull down hose, its weight and the quick connect at the spray head are replaced when the sprayer dribbles or will not retract. |
| Sink drain assembly | The pop up drain and tailpiece are renewed when they leak, because they usually fail at the same age as the faucet above them. |
The order matters, because the cheapest fix is checked first.
You describe the fixture, the room and the behavior. The question that comes back is whether the shutoffs under that sink still turn, because a seized stop changes the tools needed.
On the phoneYou point out the sink. The plumber pulls the aerator and checks the screen, then isolates hot and cold to see whether one side alone has lost flow.
First on siteThe brand and cartridge type are identified so the correct part can be sourced. You are told whether the part is available and what a replacement faucet would cost instead.
Before any work startsThe plumber fits the part or the fixture, restores the water slowly, and runs both sides while checking the deck seal and every connection underneath.
Before anyone leavesThe number is fixed once you approve the scope at stage three. If a supply valve fails while the water is being shut off, that replacement is quoted separately before it is done.
The figures in the table are published market ranges for faucet work, gathered by national cost guides. They describe the market, not this company's rates.
Faucet repair sits below faucet replacement in almost every case, and both sit well below the water treatment work that slows the wear down.
Estimating a faucet takes a few minutes at the sink. The fixture gets identified, the aerator comes off, and the cabinet underneath is checked for damp and for working shutoff valves.
That check decides everything else. You are given a scope and a price before a tool is picked up, and the price only changes if you approve a change.
| Job | Typical Las Vegas range | What moves the number |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen faucet replacement | $162 to $364 | Average about $262, with a full range of $91 to $600. |
| Service call or diagnostic fee | $75 to $150 | The broader trade range runs about $50 to $200. Emergency and after hours dispatch is higher, commonly $150 to $350 or more. |
| Pressure regulator replacement | $200 to $700 | Average around $400. |
| Water softener, installed | $200 to $6,000 | National average about $1,500. A whole home system sized for Las Vegas hardness sits in the middle of that range, not the bottom. |
Every figure in this table is a published Las Vegas or national market range from the source named beside it. It is not a quote and it is not this company's price list. Your number comes from the on site estimate. Sources: <a href="https://www.homeadvisor.com/cost/plumbing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HomeAdvisor cost guides, 2026</a>, <a href="https://www.housecallpro.com/resources/marketing/how-to/how-to-price-plumbing-jobs/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Housecall Pro 2026 Plumbing Price Guide</a>.
A cartridge costs a fraction of a new installed faucet, so repair wins unless the fixture is corroded through or its parts are discontinued.
Across the trade, a service or diagnostic visit is published at roughly $75 to $150 by the Housecall Pro 2026 Plumbing Price Guide. Evening and weekend dispatch runs higher in that same guide.
No fee or credit policy for this business has been verified, so none is published here. What the visit costs, and whether it comes off the repair, is confirmed with you on the call before anyone is dispatched.
Ranges last reviewed September 2026.
Two pieces of a faucet show valley water damage first. Both are visible without any tools at all.
The small screen at the end of the spout catches mineral before the water reaches your hands. On 16 grain per gallon water it glazes over, because a little more deposit is left behind every time the tap runs. A scattered or weak stream from one tap is usually this and nothing else.
A tap that drips after the handle is closed means the valve is no longer seating cleanly. Mineral grit is what scores those sealing surfaces. Once the seat is scored, a new washer or a new cartridge alone will start dripping again.
Photographs here are generated illustrations of the conditions described, not work by this company, with real job photographs added as they are approved.
Age in years matters less than the water running through it. The USGS calls water very hard above 180 milligrams per liter and Las Vegas runs about 1.6 times that.
A tap in a softened house and the same tap in an unsoftened one age at different speeds. That difference is measured in years, not months.
Sometimes that is true, and you should hear it said out loud rather than discovered afterward. It depends on the fixture, the part and the condition of the deck seal.
Where a good fixture has a cheap cartridge available, repair is clearly better value. Where the part is discontinued, a replacement is the honest answer.
Yes, and plenty of people prefer to, because the fixture is a visible thing they want to choose. Bring it home and it gets installed.
Check the hole count in your counter before buying. A single hole faucet will not cover a three hole sink without the matching deck plate.
Those angle stops are what lets anyone shut the water off at that sink later. InterNACHI puts their service life at 8 to 20 years.
Hard water pushes them toward the early end of that range. A stop that will not close turns a small future leak into a whole house shutdown.
It addresses the cause rather than the symptom, because the wear comes from dissolved mineral. The water district itself tells customers to set a softener to 16 grains per gallon.
It is a separate job with its own permit requirement in unincorporated Clark County. That work is described on water softener installation.
We cover faucet repair and installation in every part of the valley listed below. Each area page names the office that issues the plumbing permit there and who owns the sewer line at the curb, because both genuinely differ from one city to the next.
Say it is about this when you call and you skip the sorting.
We are a service area business. We come to you, so there is no counter to visit and no street address on this page. The number above is the fastest way in.
About a minute of detail changes what we can tell you on the call.
A drip after the handle is closed means the valve inside is not sealing. On a modern single handle tap that is the cartridge. On an older two handle tap it is the rubber seat and spring underneath. Turning the handle harder wears the surface faster.
Mineral in valley water is the usual culprit. It scores the sealing faces over time, which is why the same tap in a softened house lasts noticeably longer.
When one side alone loses pressure, the restriction is on that side and nowhere else. The usual causes are a partly blocked supply line or a shutoff valve that is not fully open. Debris trapped in the cartridge is the third.
Hot lines collect mineral faster than cold lines, because heat drives calcium out of solution. That is also why the hot side is usually the first to go weak.
Many people do, and Clark County Code does not require a permit to repair a leak in a fixture. The part that catches homeowners out is not the faucet at all. It is the shutoff valve under the sink that refuses to close once it is disturbed.
Check that both stops turn freely before starting. If either one will not shut, stop there, because the next step is shutting the water off at the house.
The cartridge is matched to the brand and model, and the reliable way is to pull the old one and compare it. A photograph of the faucet from outside will narrow the brand, but two similar looking fixtures often take different internals.
Keep the paperwork if you ever buy a new faucet. The model number turns a parts hunt into a two minute lookup years later.
The table on this page lists the published market range for kitchen faucet replacement with the cost guide it came from. That range covers labor, not the fixture you choose, and the fixture itself can easily cost more than the work of fitting it.
Anything unusual about the sink adds to it. A tight cabinet, corroded shutoffs or a three hole counter taking a single hole tap all add time.
Work on the supply lines loosens scale and debris inside the pipe, and that material travels to the first screen it meets. The screen is the aerator in the new spout. Pulling it out, rinsing it and refitting it is normally all that is needed.
It can happen more than once while the line finishes clearing. Once the loosened material is through, flow settles down and stays there.
Yes. A hose bibb, a laundry tub tap and a bar sink faucet are the same family of work. Each is a valve, a seat and a connection holding pressure. Outdoor taps take more mineral and sun damage than anything indoors.
The common outdoor failure is a stem washer that has hardened, which shows up as a hose bibb that drips while the hose is connected.
Describe what is happening and we will tell you what it usually takes to fix.