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FOX21 Features Our Virtual Plumbing Service

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Today, FOX21 News in Colorado Springs ran a feature story on our new service offering for virtual plumbing service calls. Here’s an excerpt:

COLORADO SPRINGS — Families across southern Colorado continue to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic and as more people stay home, plumbing emergencies are bound to happen.

“Our call volume was down 80 percent through our service division and that’s what makes our payroll,” Lujan said. Lujan decided to come up with a way to fix the problem and started offering virtual plumbing service calls since April. “It’s just something to help the customer and give them a peace of mind, while saving time and saving money,” Lujan said. Customers can book an appointment online for $35.

Read the full story.

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Alphalete Plumbing & Heat is a top-rated plumbing and heat contractor in Colorado Springs. Alphalete provides all major plumbing services, including repair and replacement for water heaters, garbage disposals, and other plumbing fixtures, as well as providing drain clearing, sewer replacements, and more.

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Diego Speaks at Hispanic/Black Chamber of Commerce Event

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Diego Lujan Speaks at Hispanic/Black Chamber of Commerce Event

On February 25th, our company founder and leader, Diego Lujan, recently spoke at February’s Black and Hispanic Chamber Business Luncheon held at the Warehouse Restaurant in Downtown Colorado Springs.

This was a joint event hosted by two important community building groups: the Colorado Springs Black Chamber of Commerce and the Colorado Springs Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Diego shared some history from his own life, including the hardships of growing up in poverty in the San Luis Valley, beginning with a mindset of nothing but “survival.”

Today, Diego is proud and grateful to be able to run a successful plumbing company in Colorado Springs, which employs several people full-time, and is able to give back to the community he calls home. He credits his ability to be a contributing member of the Colorado Springs community despite coming from a challenging background to  his attitude of “extreme ownership.”

To hear his remarks, you can watch the video below. Diego will be sharing more about his story in an upcoming motivational event at Library 21c on March 13, and you’ll be able to hear him at other events throughout the rest of the year.

(Please pardon the low-resolution video: we’ll try to take a better quality version next time!)

Alphalete Plumbing

Alphalete Plumbing

Alphalete Plumbing & Heat is a top-rated plumbing and heat contractor in Colorado Springs. Alphalete provides all major plumbing services, including repair and replacement for water heaters, garbage disposals, and other plumbing fixtures, as well as providing drain clearing, sewer replacements, and more.

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Commercial Plumbing at VisionWorks

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Commercial Plumbing at VisionWorks

Alphalete recently completed work on the new VisionWorks location opening up in the shopping center by Super Target on Powers Blvd and Carefree Circle.

In addition to providing plumbing services for new construction when new buildings are built (like we did for Lazy Dog Restaurant), we also provide plumbing for tenant finish / remodels in strip malls like this location. Congrats to VisionWorks on their new location, and may they have success giving people the gift of better vision!

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Commercial Plumbing at New CSL Plasma Location

CSL plasma center in Colorado Springs

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Commercial Plumbing and Gas at CSL Plasma

CSL plasma center in Colorado Springs

A new commercial project we worked on is wrapping up, and we’re happy to see it come to completion. CSL Plasma Donation Centers is opening a new branch in Colorado Springs in the former EZ Pawn building on North Academy.

CSL Plasma is a center that helps save lives by helping donors give plasma to people with leukemia, cancer, and other diseases and disorders that require blood transfusions. Special care must be taken in a medical facility like this, since it requires extensive refrigeration systems and other equipment to handle the delicate materials used in the process.

Alphalete Plumbing was proud to help make this new facility possible. We supplied all the plumbing, gas lines, wash stations, water fountains, sinks, toilets, boilers, and more.

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Commercial Plumbing at Lazy Dog Restaurant – Now Open!

The front exterior of Lazy Dog Restaurant

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Commercial Plumbing at Lazy Dog Restaurant

The front exterior of Lazy Dog Restaurant

Alphalete Plumbing is proud to have helped build the newly-opened Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar in Colorado Springs by Woodmen and I-25. This luxurious restaurant is reminiscent of a Jackson Hole ski lodge, and the attention to detail throughout is stunning.

With the high volume a restaurant like this handles daily, the owners invested heavily in the kitchen, installing absolute top-grade fixtures and equipment. 

Alphalete provided all underground plumbing as well as plumbing rough-in and plumbing top-out. The general contractor, Parkway Construction, is a company we’ve previously provided commercial plumbing for when we worked on Chuy’s Tex Mex.

We have recently focused a lot on plumbing for restaurants, both in their construction and for plumbing service after the grand opening. Restaurants are notoriously hard on their equipment: with so many people busy in a kitchen almost all day, seven days a week, dropping pans in the sinks, running garbage disposals, using grease traps, and a lot more, it’s important that everything stays online to keep the food coming. They just can’t afford downtime due to leaky faucets, clogged drains, basket strainers that won’t work, or water heaters that aren’t in tip-top shape. 

We’re happy to provide plumbing for restaurants like Lazy Dog, and if you haven’t visited them, you should! The food is almost all made from scratch, the atmosphere is relaxing, they have amazing views of Pikes Peak, and they’re dog-friendly. We recommend Lazy Dog!

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Custom Home Plumbing in Woodland Park

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New Custom Home in Woodland Park

We recently finished the plumbing for an amazing new custom home in Woodland Park, Colorado. This home has several high-end plumbing fixtures that make it special, including the following:

Kitchen Fixtures

  • BLANCO VALEA Super Single Bowl Undermount Kitchen Sink
  • InSinkErator Pro garbage disposal (3/4 horsepower) with sinktop air switch
  • Moen stainless one-handle pulldown kitchen faucet
  • Moen stainless soap dispenser

Garage & Laundry Fixtures

  • Bigtub Utilitub laundry tub
  • Florestone FM utility sink
  • Woodford Freezeless hot & cold wall faucet

Bathroom Fixtures

  • Evolution Deep Soak EverClean Whirlpool jetted tub
  • Moen Brushed Nickel Eva Two Handle Hi Arc Roman Tub Faucet Including Hand Shower
  • Moen Brushed Nickel Eva Posi-Temp Rain showerhead
  • Entrada Close Coupled elongated toilet with Softclose toilet seat
  • JSG Oceana Black Nickel Pebble Vessel sink
With custom homes, every house we provide plumbing for is different. We don’t have any “standard” fixtures or finishes, and we collaborate with the home builder to come up with the perfect package that incorporates a beautiful design, the highest quality fixtures, and the best manufacturers with the best warranties.
 
We’re proud to partner with some of the best custom home builders in the Pikes Peak region, and we’ve helped build homes in Colorado Springs, Calhan, Peyton, Black Forest, Castle Rock, Monument, Sedalia, and Woodland Park (including this home). Stay tuned as we post more photos of our custom home plumbing projects on this blog!

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

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If you're building (or thinking of building) a custom home in Colorado Springs, or the nearby area, please give us a call at (719) 360-8069 or contact us below and we will provide you with a detailed bid for your project.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Dublin Heights Restaurants Plumbing Project

Dublin Heights Restaurants in Colorado Springs

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Dublin Heights Restaurants in Colorado Springs

Dublin Heights Restaurants in Colorado Springs

We’re proud to announce that Alphalete Plumbing has just finished construction on several restaurants at Dublin Heights in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We provided the plumbing for four restaurants, listed below.

Korean Garden Restaurant in Colorado Springs

Korean Garden

Jak's Brewery & Taproom in Colorado Springs

Jak's Brewery & Taproom

Island Garden Jamaican Cuisine in Colorado Springs

Island Delight Jamaican Cuisine

Rita's Italian Ice Restaurant in Colorado Springs

Rita's Italian Ice

We have extensive experience providing plumbing for new restaurants, and we’re happy to see tremendous growth in Colorado Springs and surrounding areas. We’re looking forward the grand opening of each one of these great restaurants!

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Plumbing Is Almost Complete At Lazy Dog Restaurant

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Plumbing Is Almost Complete At Lazy Dog Restaurant

Alphalete Plumbing is almost done with the plumbing work in the new Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar coming to Colorado Springs.

If you haven’t visited a Lazy Dog Restaurant, you should check it out! The California-based dining establishment is famous for having a dog-friendly atmosphere where you can enjoy pizza, soup, salad, burgers, and more. (You can view more about the restaurant and see its menu on their website).

We’re excited to help Lazy Dog expand to Colorado Springs, and can’t wait until this new location opens up. We’re happy to have been part of the process.

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Schedule Plumbing Service

If you're needing plumbing service in Colorado Springs or the surrounding area, give us a call at (719) 360-8069 or fill our our service request form and we'll have someone get in touch with you to provide a detailed quote for your plumbing needs.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Plumbing For New McDonald’s in Denver, Colorado

Commercial plumbing construction at Denver McDonald's

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Plumbing For New McDonald’s in Denver, Colorado

The Alphalete Plumbing team is pleased to be working on a new commercial construction project: providing plumbing for a new McDonald’s location in Denver, Colorado. We will post more information here as the project progresses.

Commercial plumbing construction at Denver McDonald's

Need Plumbing Help?

Contact us today for your commercial or residential plumbing, heating, or air needs. Call (719) 360-8069 or fill out our online form to request a service call.
Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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Plumbing for Custom Homes – How We Do It

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Plumbing for Custom Homes - How We Do It

When building a custom home, as you think about the plumbing that goes into it, it’s helpful to take a step back and see the bigger picture of all the parts that make up a home’s plumbing system.

When you’re reviewing a bid from a plumbing contractor for your home, here are a few questions to consider:

  • What brand of water heater is included in the proposal?
  • Are all the fixtures included in the cost?
  • What kind of warranty does the contractor provide?
  • What kind of manufacturer’s warranty do the fixtures provide?
  • Is the contractor a reputable company that knows custom homes?

Having a good quality water heater and fixtures are clearly important, as is understanding the warranties involved, and these are fairly easy to determine with some dialogue with your builder and the plumbing contractor.

Something that can be harder, though, is making sure your plumber is experienced and knowledgeable when it comes to plumbing a new home.

Choose the right materials for your home’s plumbing system

Another important factor in residential plumbing is deciding on the type of material that will be used. In Colorado, there are several types of options to choose from, and we usually put a mixture of three main plumbing materials into the custom homes we work on. These are:

  • Copper pipe
  • PEX (cross-linked polyethylene)
  • PVC (polyvinyl chloride)

There are specific reasons for why you’d use one material in a certain application, and not another. Here’s a quick breakdown for each one:

Copper pipe: the biggest reason why you might use copper pipe in a new home these days is mainly due to familiarity. People just like copper—it’s a familiar, proven product. It’s been used for decades in millions of homes across America.

There are two main problems with plumbing an entire house with copper pipe: cost, and potential leakage.

First, copper is very, very expensive, so plumbing an entire house with it can be prohibitively costly.

Second, because copper has been used in so many houses for so many years, we now know that after 50 or 60 years it can get pinhole leaks in it, and eventually wear out, requiring replacement.

We do use copper for unions in the water entry room, like the connection to your water heater, because that offers a better install and it’s a better product at the starting point. So it’s copper for the mechanical equipment, then transitions into PEX for the whole house.

PEX pipe: in this day and age, the whole industry is switching to PEX. I believe it’s a great product: it saves time, saves labor, and saves costs for the homeowner. For the most part, we use PEX for a house’s plumbing.

The best part about PEX is that it’s strong and flexible: it expands with heat and contracts with cold. Whereas copper, once it expands or freezes, can burst, PEX is built to handle the change in water temperature. So when we install plumbing in custom homes, we use Uponor ProPex with stainless steel crimp rings. That’s really the best quality product that a homeowner can get.

As far as drawbacks, PEX doesn’t really have any, although some people that chemicals from the plastic can leach into their drinking water. But so far, that’s not proven to be a problem in our water systems.

PVC pipe: PVC is lightweight, has a long lifespan, and is corrosion-resistant. We use schedule-40 PVC for the drain-waste-vent system (septic system, sewage, venting, etc.).

Custom homes need far more attention than production homes

When Alphalete installs plumbing in a custom home, we use a combination of all the materials listed above for the most cost-effective, efficient, highest-quality plumbing installation we can offer. We’re happy to provide this, and it really goes above and beyond what a production builder would require.

In fact, a plumber that works in the production (non-custom) home environment is in a whole different ballgame than a plumber working on custom homes. It’s important for a plumber to have custom home experience because custom homes aren’t cookie-cutter, in-and-out projects with the same floor plan the plumber has done 75 times before.

Custom homes have special rough-ins, high-end plumbing fixtures, radiant heat boiler system, and other things that only someone experienced in custom home plumbing would know about.

For example, sometimes with a custom home, the city sewer is not deep enough to accommodate where the house is being built. So that tells you you’re going to have to add a sewage ejector pit in the basement to pump the basement out to the city sewer (because it has to go uphill). But you can only run the basement floor off that—you can’t run all the overhead plumbing to that system, so everything has to be gravity-fed above that.

Or let’s say you have a septic system, and your concrete foundation is six feet deep. That’s going to present a problem because you’re not going to put your septic tank eight feet deep: sometimes you don’t have that luxury to do that. You’ve got to say, “Okay, I’ll core a hole in the concrete here in order to stub out at four feet.” So the plumber has to know exactly what to block out when these types of variables are involved.

As a homeowner, you really have to know and trust that your home builder and plumber know what they’re doing because, in a custom home, it isn’t an engineer sitting in an office designing these systems before breaking ground: we’re the ones designing the plumbing system, and we have to make sure it’s all built to code.

I always tell people that it’s very important to take plumbing seriously: we’re not just installing pipes in your house. We’re helping you protect the health of your family. Sanitation is no joke, and there’s a whole city living beneath us. You want to be sure that your house’s drain, waste, venting, and water distribution is installed properly. That’s what strive to do at Alphalete Plumbing, and we’re proud to partner with Paramount Homes to build your dream custom home.

Diego Lujan

Diego Lujan

Diego is the founder of Alphalete Plumbing & Heat, a residential and commercial plumbing contractor in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Diego is a licensed and insured master plumber, and has over 14 years of experience in the plumbing industry. His company provides plumbing for custom homes and commercial buildings, and offers plumbing service for homes, buildings, and businesses across the Pikes Peak region. Learn more about Alphalete Plumbing at www.alphaleteplumbing.com.

Schedule Plumbing Service

If you're needing plumbing service in Colorado Springs or the surrounding area, give us a call at (719) 360-8069 or fill our our service request form and we'll have someone get in touch with you to provide a detailed quote for your plumbing needs.

Alphalete Plumbing is a licensed and insured full-service plumbing contractor serving Colorado Springs and the surrounding areas. We install, service, repair and replace water heaters, toilets, sinks, boilers, water softeners, water purifying systems, and much more. We offer service in Colorado Springs, Monument, Peyton, Larkspur, Fountain, Pueblo, Woodland Park, and the greater Pikes Peak region.

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