Testing & Repair
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Book your backflow test online with no callback. Search your address, and the assemblies on file show up.
We do same-day or next-day backflow testing across Fort Worth and the rest of Dallas-Fort Worth. A TCEQ-licensed tester spends about 20 minutes on each assembly, fixes most failures on the same visit, and files the passing report with your water utility the day we test.
Annual backflow test due
If your water utility sent a backflow notice, an assembly on the property is due for its test. State rules under 30 TAC 290.44 and Fort Worth’s code call for a test when an assembly is installed, at least once a year after that, and after any repair or relocation. The test proves the assembly still stops water from running backward out of your building and into the supply everyone else drinks from.
Only a TCEQ-licensed Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester can run the test and sign the report, and that signed report is what the notice is asking for. Until it’s filed, the property is out of compliance, even if the notice never reached you.
Already past due? We’ll be there the same day or the next.
A backflow test checks the valve that keeps water from your building from flowing backward into the city’s drinking water. If pressure in the city’s line drops, say from a water main break or firefighters opening hydrants, that valve is what stops it.
The parts inside wear out over time, and you can’t tell by looking. The yearly test catches a worn valve before it causes a problem, and it keeps your property in good standing with the city. We run the test and file the paperwork, so it’s one less thing on your plate.
We file the passing report directly with your water utility on the day of the test, then email you a copy, so you don’t mail a form or call the city to check.
It goes on the state’s test and maintenance report (form TCEQ-20700), signed by the licensed tester, and we keep a copy in case a utility ever says one is missing.
Many Texas utilities want the tester registered with the city on top of the state license. Our testers are on file with TCEQ and with every utility we report to, including
Fort Worth, Arlington, Dallas, Grand Prairie, Irving, Plano, Denton and Mansfield.
Every assembly we test goes into our compliance records with its due date, and next year’s reminder comes from us before the city’s notice. More on backflow compliance.
Want the paperwork off your desk?
Luke Garner and Aiden Bristow run our tests, and both hold the TCEQ Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester license. We’re family owned and fully insured, with more than 20 years in the trade and more than 10,000 backflow tests completed across the Metroplex. Customers rate us 4.9 stars on Google, and they write about reports filed with the city, failed tests fixed on the spot, and same-day and next-day appointments.
Meet our licensed testers
Same day or next day.
Today’s and tomorrow’s open times are on the booking page. Pick one with no quote form and no waiting on a callback, or call (817) 301-4247 and we’ll fit the site in. Businesses that can’t lose water mid-shift get off-hours or weekend windows.
There’s nothing to look up first. City records already list the assemblies at commercial addresses, so the tester arrives knowing what’s there and where to find it, with the gauge and rebuild kits on the truck to test every one in a single trip.
Want today or tomorrow?
My residential backflow preventer failed the BWA test. Luke and Aidan repaired and tested my backflow preventer. They arrived on-time the same day I made the appointment. Their work was OUTSTANDING!! Luke reported the repair and passed test to BWA satisfying and clearing my failed test report.
Our trucks carry rebuild kits, so a worn check disc or a bit of debris gets fixed and retested on the spot. If we have to fetch a part, it’s the same day and the retest is on us. More on backflow repair.
Already failed a test? Call and we’ll rebuild it and file the passing report.
Reduced pressure zone (RP or RPZ)
Where it usually sitsRestaurants, clinics, car washes and other commercial lines with a health hazard; many irrigation systems
On file in DFW33,409
Double check (DC)
Where it usually sitsDomestic lines for offices, stores and apartment buildings; some irrigation systems
On file in DFW24,220
Double check detector (fire line)
Where it usually sitsFire sprinkler lines
On file in DFW5,650
Spill-resistant vacuum breaker (SVB) and pressure vacuum breaker (PVB)
Where it usually sitsIrrigation systems and a few indoor lines
On file in DFW364
We test and repair every type of backflow assembly, wherever it sits on the property. Of the 63,740 assemblies on file at 18,208 properties across 80 DFW-area cities (38,887 of them in Fort Worth), just over half are the reduced pressure type.
You don’t have to identify yours before booking. Search the address, and the booking page shows which assemblies are already on file.
Not sure what’s on file?
and the assemblies show up.
Call
Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. or Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., or email team@abstexas.com.
Search your address on our booking page, confirm the assemblies on file and pick an open time, starting the same day or the next. You see the price before you pay, and you pay by card. For an invoice or an off-hours window, we’ll book it by phone or email. For several sites on one schedule, see commercial backflow testing.
Our office is at 5033 Gebron Dr in southwest Fort Worth, near Benbrook Lake.
We test all over Tarrant County and the rest of Dallas-Fort Worth, with local pages for Arlington, Bedford and Mansfield.
Something else? Call (817) 301-4247
Every year, plus once when it’s installed. State rules under 30 TAC 290.44 and your city’s code set that schedule. Fort Worth also requires a test after any repair or relocation. Your utility tracks each assembly’s due date and mails a notice when the next one comes up.
The same day or the next. Book online and pick an open time, or call (817) 301-4247. Sites that can’t lose water during business hours can book an off-hours or weekend window.
About 20 minutes per assembly, and you hear pass or fail before the tester leaves. A site with several assemblies takes longer, since each one is tested on its own, and we test them all on the same visit.
Only on the line being tested, and only for those few minutes. If a failed assembly needs a rebuild, that line stays off longer, and kitchens and clinics can book an off-hours window. An irrigation test doesn’t touch the building’s water at all.
No, as long as we can reach the assembly. A locked vault or cage needs someone to open it, and a fire line tied to an alarm needs the alarm code. We check in with the manager when we arrive.
No. In Texas the test has to be run and signed by a TCEQ-licensed Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester, and the water utility accepts only a licensed tester’s report. Many utilities also require that tester to be registered with the city. Ours hold the state license and are on file with every utility we report to.
The property stays out of compliance until a passing report is on file, and the owner is responsible even if a notice never arrived. In Fort Worth, city code section 12.5-572 allows water service to be ended. Book the test and we’ll file the passing report the same day.
Check your email. We file the passing report with your water utility the day of the test and send you a copy. If the utility ever says it has no record, call us at (817) 301-4247. We’ll confirm the filing against the utility’s records, with our own copy in hand.
Yes. We test and repair double check detectors on fire sprinkler lines and every kind of irrigation assembly, from reduced pressure assemblies to pressure and spill-resistant vacuum breakers, anywhere in Dallas-Fort Worth. Every assembly at one address, fire line and sprinklers included, can be tested on the same visit.