Plumbing in Apollo Beach
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- Home Builders 8
- Heating & Air 6
- Pool Service 6
- Builders 5
- Construction 5
- Plumbing 4
- Auto Repair 3
- House Cleaning 3
- Handyman 3
- Electricians 3
Plumbing in Apollo Beach: what is different here
Apollo Beach is a canal town on Tampa Bay: about half its area is in the county’s evacuation Zone A, and the canal and US 41 points we checked are in FEMA’s coastal AE floodplain, with base flood elevations of 10 to 11 feet. The median home was built in 2010, half the stock since then, and about one home in nine before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024); the older tract housing is west of US 41, north and south of Apollo Beach Boulevard (county community plan). One number stands out: about one home in five here heats with utility gas, the highest share in the corridor, so gas service is more common than elsewhere and the question of which license covers a gas water heater comes up more often. The town is in the county’s South-Central water service area, and any backflow assembly on county water gets its annual test.
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Before you hire a plumber in Apollo Beach
- A CFC or RF license number, on the quote, checked on the DBPR portal. If RF, it must be Hillsborough’s.
- Who pulls the permit for a re-pipe, sewer line or backflow job, under which license number; for a water heater, ask whether a permit is needed.
- A certificate of insurance: $100,000 liability, $25,000 property damage, and workers’ comp if they have employees.
- On a home job over $2,500, a written contract with the lien-law and Recovery Fund notices.
- If they take more than 10 percent up front on permitted work: permit applied for within 30 days, work started within 90 days of it, unless you agreed otherwise in writing.
- For a gas water heater: which license, chapter 489 or chapter 527, covers the gas side.
- On a house over twenty years old: what the pipes are made of, whether any is polybutylene, and the age of the water heater, so the four-point inspection holds no surprises.