Family owned & operated
About Collins & Sons LLC — Catonsville Plumbers Since Before the Beltway Filled In
Over forty years of experience, one family, and a shop on Westowne Road. We specialize in residential repairs, remodels and upgrades to your home water system.
- 9 five-star reviews
- 40+ years experience
- Licensed & insured · MHIC #117712
9
Five-star Google reviews
Verified, not bought
40+
Years of experience
Family owned and operated
24/7
Emergency service
A plumber answers, not a service
MHIC
Licensed #117712
Fully insured, permits pulled
Free
Hard water testing
On every service call
Our story
A family business, doing the same work the same way
We are a family owned and operated business dedicated to providing quality service to your home water system. We specialize in residential repairs, remodels, and upgrades. With over 40 years of experience, Collins & Sons, LLC is the right choice for your home.
That sentence does a lot of work, so here is what it means day to day. We are not a franchise with a national marketing budget and a rotating cast of technicians. We are a family that has been fixing Maryland plumbing for four decades, working out of a shop at 209 Westowne Rd, Catonsville, MD 21229.
Read our Google reviews and you will notice something: people use a first name. Danny replaced the exhaust fan. Daniel has done several projects over the last four years. Dan fixed a tricky door and saved the day. That is not an accident of wording — it is what happens when the same person keeps turning up.
We specialize in residential work: repairs, remodels and upgrades to the water system in your house. We also handle small commercial jobs for businesses around Catonsville and the Frederick Road corridor, and we take emergency calls around the clock.
Experience & expertise
What forty years in this specific area actually teaches you
The housing stock
Catonsville has one of the higher concentrations of pre-1950 housing in Baltimore County. Galvanized supply lines, cast iron drainage stacks, ten-inch toilet roughs and plaster-and-lath walls are our normal working conditions. We know when a wall opens easily and when it does not, and we plan the route before we cut anything.
The water
Baltimore City surface water reaches Catonsville at roughly 120–141 PPM — about 7–8.2 grains per gallon — a figure published in the city’s annual water quality report rather than one we invented. That is why water heaters here fail years early and why angle stops seize open. We test hardness free on every visit and show you the number from your own tap, because the published average and what arrives at your house are not always the same thing.
The ground
Piedmont clay soil swells and shrinks with our wet and dry cycles, which is how sewer laterals develop bellies over decades. Mature trees do the rest. That is why we camera every main line we clear rather than guessing at what caused the backup.
Credentials
Licensed, insured, and happy to prove it
You are inviting somebody into your home and asking them to work on systems that can cause a great deal of damage if they are done badly. You should check.
Licensed — MHIC #117712
Issued by the Maryland Home Improvement Commission. You can verify it on the Maryland licensing website before you let anybody into your house, and we would encourage you to.
Fully insured
Liability coverage in place, so you are protected from the moment we arrive. We are happy to provide a certificate of insurance on request.
Permits pulled, inspections met
Water heater replacements, sewer work and gas piping all require permits in Baltimore County. We file them and we meet the inspector. It is not optional here.
Family owned and operated
Not a franchise, not a call center. The person who answers the phone knows the trucks, and the person who shows up at your house is the same one next time.
In our customers' words
Five stars, and the same two things mentioned again and again
Look at the reviews and you will see a pattern: we explain the work before we do it, and we clean up afterward. Those are not slogans, they are the two things people notice.
Service area
132 communities across 7 Maryland counties
We work outward from Catonsville. Response times are fastest in 21228 and 21229, and we are honest about drive time when you are near the edge of the map.
- Baltimore County, MD
- Howard County, MD
- Anne Arundel County, MD
- Carroll County, MD
- Frederick County, MD
- Montgomery County, MD
- Prince George's County, MD
Work with a plumber who will still be here in ten years
Collins & Sons LLC has been doing this for over forty years from the same town. Call and speak to the family — not a dispatcher.
- 9 five-star Google reviews
- 40+ years, family owned
- Licensed & insured · MHIC #117712