Plumber serving Bone, ID
Idaho Falls’ first choice for reliable, professional plumbing services.
Bone is about 20 miles southeast of Idaho Falls, out past the city limits where Bone Road runs through ranch and farm country. Most properties out here are on private wells and septic. The elevation is over 6,000 feet and winters get brutal.
We have been out to Bone Road for drain and sewer calls going back years, including a septic line backup last winter that pushed sewage into a utility room overnight. We have also cleared main drains on properties off US-26 where root intrusion nobody had touched in a couple of seasons was the real problem. As a plumber in Idaho Falls, King George’s Royal Flush makes the drive out when Bone area homeowners need it.
Calls Near Bone Road
Bone Road properties sit on big lots, and by the time someone calls about a plumbing problem out here, it has usually been going on for a while. There are not many plumbers willing to make the drive, so people sometimes wait longer than they should.
We have cleared a main sewer line on a property just off Bone Road after a family came home from a weekend away to find drains backing up in two bathrooms at once. We have also run camera inspections on older homes along the US-26 corridor near Bone where slow drains kept coming back because roots had been working into the line for a couple of years. Last fall we responded to a call where a cast iron drain stack under a ranch house had partially collapsed. Not visible from above. Found only with a camera.
Out here, guessing costs money. We run the camera first.
Rural Ranch Plumbing
Ranch homes near Bone were not built with easy maintenance in mind. Drain lines run longer distances across bigger parcels. A lot of the plumbing in these homes goes back to the 1970s and has not been touched since.
King George’s Royal Flush has worked on ranch houses, bunkhouses, and outbuildings east of Idaho Falls where there is no as-built plan to look at. You trace the lines by crawling the property. We have replaced galvanized supply lines on a 1970s place off Woodruff Avenue and cleared a grease-blocked kitchen drain on a property that handled livestock processing on-site. Hard water is a problem out here. Mineral scale builds up inside older pipes fast and shortens the life of fixtures.
Rural properties need a plumber who does not balk at what they find.
Septic Line Service
Most properties in the Bone area run on septic, not municipal sewer. A slow drain on a septic system is a different situation than a slow drain in town. It can mean the main line is partially blocked, or it can mean the tank itself needs attention.
We have snaked and hydro jetted drain lines on properties where the homeowner had written off slow drains as just part of rural life, only to find the main line was 60 percent blocked. A hydro jet clears what a snake pushes past. On a long drain run, that is not a small thing. We have also done camera work to find where a drain line meets the septic tank on older properties where nobody knows exactly where the tank is.
Slow drains on a septic property are not something to wait on.
Bone Winter Pipes
At 6,000-plus feet with nothing around to hold heat, Bone gets cold in a way that most of Idaho Falls does not. Pipes in unheated crawl spaces and outbuildings freeze. It is not a question of if, just when.
We have thawed and repaired split supply lines on homes along the US-26 corridor where January cold snaps hit pipes in unheated crawl spaces hard. Outdoor hose bibs and lines running through uninsulated outbuildings are the most common casualties. If a pipe froze and cracked, water may be moving somewhere in that wall or floor before any visible sign shows up. Getting a plumber in Idaho Falls out before the thaw spreads the damage is worth the call.
No hot water on a cold morning out here is miserable. We move fast on freeze calls.
Emergency Response
A backed-up main drain with no functional toilets. A frozen line that burst at 11 PM in January. A septic line pushed past capacity over a holiday weekend. We have handled all of these in and around Bone, making the drive out from Idaho Falls to get things under control the same day.
Rural calls take longer to get to. That is why we pick up and get moving. We have been doing this since 1998. When someone calls from 20 miles out with a plumbing emergency, we head out.
When Bone area homeowners need a plumber, they call King George’s Royal Flush.
We also serve nearby Shelley, Ririe, and the Lincoln Road / US-26 corridor southeast of Idaho Falls.
Driving Directions from Bone, ID
Our Location: 429 1st St, Idaho Falls, ID 83401
From Bone Road, head northwest toward US-26 (Lincoln Road) and take US-26 northwest into Idaho Falls. Continue on Lincoln Road into the city and turn onto 1st Street. The drive from Bone is approximately 20 to 25 minutes under normal conditions.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Do you make emergency service calls out to rural areas like Bone?
Yes. King George’s Royal Flush makes service calls to Bone and the surrounding rural areas southeast of Idaho Falls. We have been responding to calls along Bone Road and the US-26 corridor for years and do not turn away rural emergency calls.
2. What are the signs that tree roots have gotten into a drain or septic line on a rural property?
Slow drains that keep coming back after snaking, gurgling after you flush, and sewage smells in the yard are the main ones. Out on rural properties near Bone, mature trees planted close to old septic lines are where we find the problem most of the time. A camera tells you for sure before anyone starts digging.