Photo Credits | Plumber Valdosta Fix

About the Photos

Each photo shows the kind of plumbing work its page talks about, in real American homes and job sites. The photos aren't pictures of the plumbers who take calls through this site or of jobs booked here, and no one's face is shown.

Photos from Unsplash and Pexels are used under the Unsplash License and the Pexels License, which let anyone use them without giving credit. Others are in the public domain, from U.S. government agencies such as the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy, or from photographers who gave up their rights, so they need no credit either.

AI Illustrations

The large image at the top of each page listed below is an AI illustration, made with ChatGPT's image tool in November 2026. Each one shows the kind of job its page talks about, in a home like the ones around Valdosta. They aren't photos of real jobs or of the plumbers who take calls through this site, and the people in them aren't real.

Photos Shared Under Creative Commons

These licenses let the photos be used freely as long as the photographer gets credit.

Gas control valve on a water heater

Used on: The Water Heater Repair page
Photographer: Scott Akerman
Original title: “21/52 - Water Heater”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/sterlic/5773735581
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Copper pipe split by a burst

Used on: The Emergency Plumber page
Photographer: cynthiacloskey
Original title: “How I spent my Saturday night”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/cynthiacloskey/3205681690
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Water heater with a leak shutoff valve

Used on: The Leak Detection page
Photographer: Tony Alter
Original title: “New water heater with a new gas safety valve. It has a sensor in a drip pan that the water heater sits in. If the sensor gets wet the valve shuts. The pan drains out side the house. No flooding from a leak like in 2007.”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/78428166@N00/16618011819
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Saved in a web image format.

Flapper inside a toilet tank

Used on: The Toilet Repair page
Photographer: Editor B
Original title: “Flapper”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/editor/3060768748
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Turned a quarter turn and saved in a web image format.

Shower valve behind an open wall

Used on: The Shower Repair page
Photographer: RBerteig
Original title: “pipey”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/rberteig/10693784415
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Underside of a garbage disposal

Used on: The Garbage Disposal Repair page
Photographer: picasso1387
Original title: “Garbage Disposal 7”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/picasso1387/163359593
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Drain and water lines under a kitchen sink

Used on: The Kitchen Plumbing page
Photographer: Tony Webster
Original title: “Under the Kitchen Sink”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/diversey/52881884486
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Plumber at a kitchen sink cabinet

Used on: The Kitchen Plumbing page
Photographer: rick on Flickr, retouched by Sebastian Wallroth
Original title: “Plumber at work (retouched)”
Found at: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plumber_at_work_(retouched).jpg
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Electric tankless water heater with its cover off

Used on: The Tankless Water Heater page
Photographer: Kevin Shorter
Original title: “Tankless Water Heater”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/28648582@N02/8747024384
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

New gas water heater in a closet

Used on: The Water Heater Replacement page
Photographer: gracewanderer
Original title: “new water heater”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/gracewanderer/4289283711
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Backflow preventer assembly

Used on: The Backflow Testing page
Photographer: Luckie 13
Original title: “Mmmmmm... backflow preventer”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/luckie/115427098
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

New drain field trenches

Used on: The Drainfield Replacement page
Photographer: cifraser1
Original title: “New drain field for the septic tank.”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/cifraser/8587275723
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

New copper and PEX water lines

Used on: The Repiping page
Photographer: bennettscience
Original title: “Water, water, everywhere”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/bennettscience/35868901196
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

Valves in a commercial mechanical room

Used on: The Commercial Plumbing page
Photographer: MTA C&D, East Side Access
Original title: “CM004 - 44th Street Vent Plant Building - RPZ Backflow Preventer Testing Inside Water Meter Room (09-03-2014)”
Found at: www.flickr.com/photos/mtacc-esa/14953960397
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0), creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Changes: Cropped and saved in a web image format.

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