Wes Hargrove measures his territory in drive time. He is based in Littleton, and he tries to keep his work within about an hour of it.
Past that, he says, “it kind of depends on the size of the job.” He could still do the work, he says, but a customer that far out can probably find a plumber closer to home.
The limit fits the way Western Plumbing Solutions & Remodels is built. Hargrove is a master plumber and a licensed plumbing contractor, and the company’s own pitch rests on that pairing. One person owns the job from the first pipe in the wall to the last fixture, with no subcontractor to wait on and no second crew to blame. The slogan, about service you can hang your hat on, makes the same point. One hat, one man answering for the work.
The business lists itself as open around the clock, taking residential and commercial calls around Littleton, Denver and Highlands Ranch.
The pairing shows most clearly in a basement bathroom. As the company lays out the job, Hargrove cuts the slab where the toilet, shower and sink drains will go, ties into the existing drain stack beneath it, and sets a sewage ejector pump if the finished floor sits below the main drain. He restores the concrete himself, then roughs in the supply lines.
Commercial work runs on the same logic. Hargrove handles drain cleaning and repairs for restaurants, offices, retail space and multi-tenant buildings, and he carries parts for the failures that come up most often: backflow preventers, flush valves, faucet cartridges. His site makes a point about wear. A flushometer diaphragm that might last 15 years in a house can give out in two in a busy office restroom, because it gets used so much more.
Reviews describe a habit of looking past the work order. One homeowner hired him to fix vent pipes in the attic and reset toilets with new wax rings. Along the way, she wrote, he found the main water shutoff valve leaking and spotted something in the attic that needed sealing. She hadn’t called about either.
Back in the basement, the last step comes before anything a visitor would ever see. With the supply lines roughed in, Hargrove coordinates the inspection, and only then does framing or tile work begin.