A pipe fails in one of two ways: suddenly, with water pouring out where it should not be, or slowly, with a drip inside a wall that you only notice when the baseboard swells or the paint bubbles. Either way, the pipe itself is only half the story. The other half is what the water is doing while you decide — soaking drywall, warping flooring, feeding mold behind a cabinet. A pipe that needs repair is a problem with a clock on it, and the first job is always the same: stop the water, find the failed section, and fix what actually broke.
If you have a leaking or burst pipe in Kendall, call +13057036568. Miami Plumber Co connects you with a trusted local plumbing pro — tell us what is happening and we will talk through the next step honestly, including when to shut the water off right away.
Kendall is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwest Miami-Dade County, home to more than 80,000 people. Its commercial heart is Dadeland, at the northeast end of the community, with Dadeland Mall and the Dadeland North and Dadeland South Metrorail stations, and The Falls open-air shopping center just south of Dadeland Mall on US-1. Kendall Drive — SW 88th Street — runs east to west through the community as its main corridor, lined with the subdivisions and townhouse communities that make up most of Kendall.
Most Kendall homes are single-family houses built during the suburban growth that followed Dadeland Mall’s opening in the 1960s, and like most South Florida homes, they sit on concrete slab foundations. The pipe materials inside them depend on when they were built and whether they have been repiped since. Older homes often still carry copper supply lines, and some carry galvanized steel or gray polybutylene from earlier eras. Homes built or repiped more recently usually run CPVC or PEX. Each material fails differently, and that matters for the repair: copper develops pinhole leaks as hard South Florida water thins the pipe wall over decades, galvanized steel corrodes from the inside until flow drops and rust-colored water appears, CPVC turns brittle with age, and PEX resists the mineral scale that damages metal pipe. Knowing what is in the walls before arriving is why the age of the home is one of the first things we ask about.
Kendall proper is the area around Kendall Drive and Dadeland — not Kendale Lakes, the separate community to the northwest. If you live near The Falls, along the Kendall Drive corridor, or around Dadeland, this page is for you. For plumbing help across the wider area, see our plumber in Kendall hub, and for work elsewhere in the county, our Miami-Dade County plumber page.
Pipe trouble rarely arrives without warning. The signs worth acting on include:
A single drip at a fitting is usually a small job. Pinhole leaks that keep appearing in different places are a different conversation: once copper starts failing, the leaks tend to show up in clusters, because the whole run has been corroding at the same rate. That is when a spot repair stops being the sensible answer and a reroute or a repipe becomes worth discussing — not as an upsell, but because patching the third pinhole in a year costs more in damage and disruption than fixing the run once.
under a sink, behind a toilet, or near the water heater
on a wall or ceiling
, which often points to corroded steel pipe
, which can mean a supply line has corroded and narrowed from the inside
with no change in use — often a leak in a line you cannot see
when every tap is off
, which usually means the pipe itself is failing, not just one joint
A pipe repair starts with finding the failed section, not with cutting. If the leak is visible, the work is straightforward: the water is shut off, the damaged section is cut out, and a new section goes in, matched to the existing material where that makes sense — copper repaired in copper avoids unnecessary transition points, and a PEX run is usually extended in PEX. Joints are made properly, the line is pressure-tested, and the water is turned back on only after the repair holds.
If the leak is hidden, detection comes first. A meter check and pressure test confirm which line is losing water, and acoustic listening equipment and thermal imaging narrow the location before any wall or floor is opened. That is the difference between one planned opening and a search through drywall. The repair that follows depends on where the pipe is: a line in an accessible wall is a spot repair; a line under a slab is either a repair through a planned opening in the floor or a reroute — a new line run through the walls or ceiling that bypasses the failed section entirely, with no slab opening at all. Our pipe repair service covers all of these approaches across Miami-Dade County, and the choice is made from what the pipe actually looks like once it is found, not guessed at in advance.
A burst pipe is the urgent version of the same job. If a pipe has burst, the first step is the main water shutoff — know where yours is before you need it, usually near the meter at the front of the property or where the line enters the house. Turn it off, then call +13057036568. Moving water out of the way and getting the line isolated matters more than anything else in the first minutes, because every minute of flow is more water in the walls and floors.
Most pipe repairs are spot repairs, and they should be. A single failed joint, a cracked fitting, or one pinhole in an otherwise sound run is a repair, full stop. A repipe enters the conversation only when the pattern says the system itself is done: pinhole leaks appearing in different places over a year or two, galvanized lines so corroded that pressure has dropped across the whole house, or gray polybutylene pipe, which is known to fail and which many insurers flag. A repipe replaces the supply lines through the attic and walls with modern PEX or copper, with small planned openings rather than wholesale demolition, and it is priced as one job with one outcome — no more chasing the next leak.
If you are unsure which side of that line your home falls on, say so on the call. The answer comes from what the pipes look like and how often they have failed, and a plumber who has seen the system can give it to you straight.
When you call +13057036568, describe what you see: where the water is, whether it is a drip or a flow, and whether it is getting worse. If a pipe has burst or water is actively spreading, you will be told to shut off the main water supply first if you can do so safely. On site, the job starts with finding the failed section and showing you what broke, then the options and the price upfront before work starts. It helps to know the age of your home, what pipe material you have if you know it, and whether this is the first leak or one of several.
Pipe repair covers Kendall proper, including the neighborhoods along Kendall Drive (SW 88th Street), around The Falls and Dadeland, and the residential areas between US-1 and SW 137th Avenue. That includes the central Kendall ZIP codes 33176 and 33186, with 33183 and 33196 serving parts of the wider Kendall area. If you are just outside Kendall’s boundary — in Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, or Kendale Lakes — call anyway and ask; coverage questions are answered on the phone, not guessed at here.
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A visible drip or puddle, water stains or bubbling paint on a wall or ceiling, a swollen baseboard, rust-colored water, low pressure across the whole house, a bill that jumps with no change in use, or a hissing sound in a wall when everything is off. Any one of these is worth a call, and a burst pipe or actively spreading water should be shut off at the main valve first if you can do so safely.
It depends on the age of the home. Older Kendall homes often still carry copper supply lines, and some carry galvanized steel or gray polybutylene. Homes built or repiped more recently usually run CPVC or PEX. Copper develops pinhole leaks as hard water thins the wall over decades, galvanized steel corrodes from the inside, CPVC turns brittle with age, and PEX resists the mineral scale that damages metal pipe. The age of the home is the best clue to what is in the walls.
Often, yes. The alternative to opening the slab is a reroute: a new line is run through the walls or ceiling, bypassing the failed section entirely, and the leaking section is taken out of service. Whether a reroute or a repair through a planned floor opening fits better depends on where the leak is and on the condition of the rest of the system.
A meter check and pressure test confirm which line is losing water, then acoustic listening equipment and thermal imaging narrow the location before any wall or floor is opened. That keeps the repair to one planned opening instead of a search through drywall, and it means the repair plan is based on what was actually found.
A single failed joint, a cracked fitting, or one pinhole in an otherwise sound run is a repair. A repipe is worth discussing when pinhole leaks keep appearing in different places, galvanized lines have corroded enough to drop pressure across the whole house, or the home still has gray polybutylene pipe. The call is made from the condition of the pipes and how often they have failed, not from a rule of thumb.
Turn off the main water shutoff if you can do so safely — it is usually near the meter at the front of the property or where the line enters the house — then call +13057036568. Getting the water stopped matters more than anything else in the first minutes, because every minute of flow is more water in the walls and floors.
Call +13057036568 and describe what you see: where the water is, whether it is a drip or a flow, and whether it is getting worse. It helps to know the age of your home, what pipe material you have if you know it, and whether this is the first leak or one of several. You get the finding and the price upfront before work starts.
Call Miami Plumber Co at +13057036568 and describe the problem once. We will connect you with a trusted local plumbing pro who can assess the job, explain the options, and give you an upfront price before any work begins.
