Picture credits

This site uses 57 real photographs, listed with their photographers and licenses, and 10 AI-generated pictures, each labeled where it appears.

The photographs are cropped and resized. Photographers don't endorse this site. Unless a caption says otherwise, a photograph shows a place in general and not any house with a known plumbing problem.

Photographs

• Rowhouses on Capitol Hill. Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao. File page, CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
• Front steps and railings on a tree-lined Capitol Hill block. Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao. File page, CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
• N Street NW in Georgetown. Photo: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States. File page, CC0. Cropped.
• Key Bridge from the Georgetown waterfront, with DC on one bank and Virginia on the other. Photo: G. Edward Johnson. File page, CC BY 4.0. Cropped.
• 4th and T Streets NW in LeDroit Park. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid at English Wikipedia. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Bloomingdale's rowhouses in the snow. Photo: Olivia Ivey. File page, CC BY 1.0. Cropped.
• Cutting head of a tunnel boring machine for DC Water's Clean Rivers Project, 2014. Photo: Photographer not identified. File page, Public domain. Cropped.
• The George M. Lightfoot House on Missouri Avenue NW, in upper Northwest. Photo: Farragutful. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• The Jost-Kuhn House in Northwest DC. Photo: Farragutful. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Houses at 13th and W Streets SE in the Anacostia Historic District. Photo: Smallbones. File page, CC0. Cropped.
• The view across the city from Cedar Hill in Anacostia. Photo: Eric T. Gunther. File page, CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
• The Anacostia River near a combined sewer outfall, 2018. Photo: Antony-22. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• An American Foursquare house in Cherrydale, North Arlington. Photo: Wikipedian1234. File page, CC0. Cropped.
• A bungalow in Cherrydale, North Arlington. Photo: Wikipedian1234. File page, CC0. Cropped.
• Buckingham, a garden apartment community in Arlington. Photo: Arlington County. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• Brick homes at Fairlington, South Arlington. Photo: Arlington County. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• Campbell Avenue at The Village at Shirlington. Photo: Emw. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Cameron Street at North Fairfax Street in Old Town Alexandria. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• The Moses Hepburn Rowhouses on North Pitt Street, Old Town Alexandria. Photo: Beyond My Ken. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• A California-style bungalow in Del Ray, Alexandria. Photo: Deling at English Wikipedia. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Bungalows along a Del Ray street. Photo: User Deling on en.wikipedia. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Duke Street at Interstate 395, the road many West End addresses hang from. Photo: Famartin. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• The Falls Church, the colonial-era church the city is named for. Photo: Southerngs. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Washington Street in the City of Falls Church. Photo: Famartin. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• A house on Hardwood Lane in McLean. Photo: Artaxerxes. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• Chain Bridge, between Arlington County and DC, close to McLean. Photo: Famartin. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• Colvin Run Mill, in the Great Falls area of Fairfax County. Photo: Joe Ravi. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• The Great Falls of the Potomac, on the Virginia side. Photo: Mehul Antani. File page, CC BY 2.0. Cropped.
• The Freeman House in the Town of Vienna. Photo: Ron Dicker. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• The Freeman Store and house from the street. Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• The historic center of the Town of Herndon. Photo: Dion Hinchcliffe. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• Office park and pond off Sunrise Valley Drive, Herndon. Photo: Elvert Barnes. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• The Ratcliffe-Logan-Allison House in the City of Fairfax. Photo: Eopederson. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• The Ratcliffe-Logan-Allison House from the street, City of Fairfax. Photo: ajay_suresh. File page, CC BY 2.0. Cropped.
• A street in Annandale, November 2015. Photo: PersianDutchNetwork. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• A house in West Springfield. Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao. File page, CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
• A Charles Goodman-designed house in Hollin Hills, Fairfax County. Photo: Clarissa Peterson. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• A house in Woodlawn, near Route 1. Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao. File page, CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
• A water meter cover in a DC sidewalk. Older covers carry the utility's old name, DC WASA. Photo: Vysotsky. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• A sewer trench in a town street in the 1940s, from a Massachusetts public-works album. Deep work has always been a job for crews. Photo: Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, Barbier, Ernest E.. File page, Public domain. Cropped.
• A flooded basement. Keep out of water like this until the cause is known. Photo: Thomas Geersing. File page, CC BY 2.0. Cropped.
• A newly installed sump pump in a house basement, photographed in New Jersey. Photo: Famartin. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• An excavation in DC showing a lead water pipe running to a house. This is utility or contractor work. Photo: IntangibleArts. File page, CC BY 2.0. Cropped.
• Rowhouses on the 700 block of 15th Street SE, in the Barney Circle area beside Capitol Hill. Photo: Tim Evanson. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• A 2008 lead service replacement notice on a lamp post on Irving Street NW. Phone numbers blurred. Photo: IntangibleArts. File page, CC BY 2.0. Cropped.
• A house in Arlington County. Photo: Farragutful. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Alexandria City Hall in Old Town. Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• Hot and cold supply lines before a sink goes in, the kind of work a permit may cover. Photo: KVDP. File page, Public domain. Cropped.
• North Pitt Street, Old Town Alexandria. Photo: Beyond My Ken. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• A house in the Maywood Historic District, Arlington. Photo: Farragutful. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• A larger shingled house behind a picket fence, also in Maywood. Photo: Farragutful. File page, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cropped.
• Street trees along rowhouses on the 800 block of Kentucky Avenue SE. Photo: Tim Evanson. File page, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped.
• A blue flag marks a water main before digging. Photographed in New Jersey, with the flag's printed details blurred. Photo: Famartin. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• A green flag marks a sewer main. Photographed in New Jersey, printed details blurred. Photo: Famartin. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• Houses in the Wakefield area of Fairfax County. Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao. File page, CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
• A water cover in a DC sidewalk, marked with the utility's old name, DC WASA. Photo: Vysotsky. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.
• Key Bridge and Rosslyn from the DC side: the river is the line this map is built around. Photo: APK. File page, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.

AI-generated pictures

• A well pressure tank in a utility room.
• A sewer cleanout cap at the edge of a yard.
• A lateral trench across a front yard, with utility paint on the grass. Licensed contractors only.
• A backwater valve in an access pit cut into a basement floor.
• Roots growing through a joint in an old clay sewer pipe, as a camera might see them.
• A cast-iron stack against a basement wall, with a newer banded joint.
• Gray plastic pipe along basement joists, a general picture, not a way to identify your own pipe.
• An old wrapped pipe in a basement. Don't disturb wrap like this.
• A gas water heater in a basement closet. This one is a licensed pro's job.
• A main shutoff and meter where the water line comes through the foundation.