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Last Updated: October 10, 2026 | By Cogan Plumbing, Licensed Master Plumber
Plumber in Conway, AR
Conway has two plumbing personalities, and you can feel the shift driving down Dave Ward Drive. East of the interstate (near downtown and the colleges) the houses have history: pre-war bungalows, 1940s cottages, and early-century homes around Hendrix and UCA whose plumbing has been touched by five generations of handymen. West of the interstate, it's the growth corridors: Donaghey Avenue, the big subdivisions past Prince Street, developments so new the sod is still settling. We work both sides weekly, and the job lists barely overlap.
Cogan Plumbing is family-owned. Josh Roberts, the owner, is an Arkansas Master Plumber, License MP6055. We're licensed and insured with a 5.0-star Google rating, and in 2026 were voted Best Plumber in the Arkansas Times Best of Arkansas and named an AY Magazine Best of 2026 Honoree. Our trucks roll to Conway from our West Little Rock location.
Plumbing in Conway: what locals actually deal with
Start downtown and near the colleges. The historic homes around Hendrix, the UCA campus area, and the older streets off Harkrider have original or near-original plumbing in some cases. Galvanized supply lines, cast-iron drain stacks, and the kind of charming-original-everything that hides eighty years of patched leaks. Cast iron doesn't rust through overnight; it scales shut. When a bathroom drain in a 1930s home slows to a trickle, it's usually a cast-iron branch choked with buildup: the fix is replacing that run, not another bottle of drain cleaner. Galvanized lines do the same on the supply side: pressure fades, water runs brown for a second, and eventually a pinhole appears in the worst wall.
Then there's everything the colleges bring: rental turnover. The student-rental blocks around UCA and Hendrix cycle tenants yearly: disposals that have eaten things no disposal should eat, abused toilets, deferred maintenance. Landlords call us because we quote flat and get the unit back on the market: no haggling, no mystery line items.
Head west and the conversation changes completely. The newer subdivisions (off Donaghey, along the Prince Street corridor, pushing toward the county line) are slab-built 1990s-to-now construction. The problems arrive early: water heaters dying at 10 to 12 years in our hard water, disposals giving out, the occasional slab leak where copper met our clay soil without enough protection. Plus builder-era signatures: shower valves with no access panels, hose bibs with no frost protection, attic water heaters with pans that drain to nowhere.
Conway sits on Faulkner County clay, which expands and contracts with the seasons: buried lines feel every cycle. Sewer laterals develop bellies: low spots where the pipe sags and waste collects. A belly doesn't fail loudly; it fails as a drain that needs cleaning every eighteen months until somebody runs a camera and shows you the sag on screen. Then you decide whether jetting, a spot repair, or a trenchless replacement is the right money.
Conway's water is standard central Arkansas: hard enough to scale a water heater and spot your glassware. Scale shortens heater life and eats fixture cartridges, making a softener a genuinely sensible purchase for a lot of homes: maintenance, not luxury. Backflow preventers on irrigation systems are required here too, and they need annual testing. We handle that.
Winter hits both eras. The old homes have exposed crawlspace plumbing and drafty walls; the new ones have hose bibs and attic runs that freeze in a polar blast. Disconnect hoses in the fall, know where your main shutoff is, and keep our number where you can find it.
Septic pockets surround the city. Inside Conway, you're on municipal sewer. Outside city limits (toward Greenbrier, Vilonia, and rural Faulkner County) septic systems are common, with the problems that come with them: full tanks, crushed lines, drain fields at the end of their life. We service septic systems and diagnose whether the issue is the tank or the line before you write a check.
Areas we serve
We run calls across Conway and the surrounding Faulkner County area:
- Downtown Conway and the historic districts
- Neighborhoods around Hendrix College and the University of Central Arkansas
- The Donaghey Avenue corridor and its subdivisions
- West Conway developments off Prince Street and beyond
- Growth corridors along Dave Ward Drive and the interstate exits
- Greenbrier, Vilonia, and the rural routes between
Same-day appointments are the standard: if it's broken today, we try to be there today.
Plumbing services in Conway
Licensed techs. Upfront flat-rate pricing. No overtime charges: a 2 a.m. emergency costs what a 2 p.m. call does. Most residential repairs land between $150 and $500.
- 24/7 emergency plumbing: bursts, backups, gas smells, no water. We answer.
- Drain cleaning: cast-iron stacks, kitchen lines, main sewer cleanouts.
- Hydro jetting: scouring root- and grease-choked lines clean.
- Sewer line repair: camera inspection, trenchless pipe bursting, spot repairs.
- Leak detection and repair: slab leaks, wall leaks, crawlspace lines.
- Whole-house repiping: PEX or copper to replace failing galvanized.
- Water heater repair and installation: gas and electric tanks.
- Tankless water heater installation: sized honestly.
- Gas line services: new runs, repairs, code upgrades.
- Water line repair and replacement
- Water softener installation: real relief for hard water.
- Toilet repair and installation
- Faucet and fixture repair
- Garbage disposal repair and installation
- Kitchen plumbing and bathroom remodels
- Septic services
- Commercial plumbing: restaurants, offices, retail along the growth corridors.
Why Conway homeowners call Cogan Plumbing
Conway's big enough to have options and small enough that reputation travels, so here's the pitch without the pitch: Josh Roberts owns this company and holds Arkansas Master Plumber License MP6055. We're family-owned, licensed, insured, and sitting at a 5.0-star Google rating. In 2026, Arkansas Times readers voted us Best Plumber in Best of Arkansas, and AY Magazine named us a Best of 2026 Honoree. You don't get those by accident: you get them one flat-rate invoice at a time.
The flat-rate part is the whole business model. You approve the price before the work starts, with no overtime charges tacked on because the job ran past five or the pipe fought back. Most home repairs come in at $150–$500, and we book same-day appointments: a backed-up sewer doesn't care about your schedule.
Our West Little Rock location
All Conway dispatches come from our West Little Rock shop:
- Address: 10121 N Rodney Parham Rd, Little Rock, AR 72227
- Phone: (501) 710-3838
- Hours: Monday–Friday, 8am–5pm · 24/7 emergency service
One shop, one number.
Conway plumbing FAQs
I own a historic home near downtown. Can you work on old plumbing without tearing the house apart?
Yes: we work in pre-war homes regularly. Cast-iron and galvanized systems get replaced section by section, opening the smallest area the job allows. We'll tell you what's urgent and what can wait a year: old houses don't need everything at once.
I'm a landlord with rentals near the colleges. Do you handle rental properties?
All the time. Flat-rate quotes make the math easy, and we coordinate directly with tenants for access. Disposals, toilets, water heaters, turn cleanouts: send us the address.
What's the lifespan of a water heater in Conway?
In our hard water, a tank heater runs about 10–12 years without a softener: longer with one and regular flushing. If yours is over a decade old and rumbling, plan the replacement on your schedule instead of the heater's.
My drain backs up every year or two. Is jetting enough?
Jetting clears the line, but repeat backups mean something structural: roots at a joint, a belly, a cracked section. We'll run the camera and show you what's happening so you stop paying for the same cleaning twice.
Do you service Greenbrier and Vilonia?
Yes. Both towns and the rural routes around them, including septic systems and homes on well water.
Call a Conway plumber
Historic-home repipe, slab leak, dead water heater, or a sewer that won't stay clear? Call (501) 710-3838. Flat-rate pricing, no overtime charges, same-day appointments from our West Little Rock shop.
