Local, licensed, owner-operated
About Fitchet Plumbing
Local roots. Personal service.
Fitchet Plumbing is owned and operated by Tim Fitchet, a licensed Master Plumber who was born and raised in Severna Park, MD and has been running his own plumbing business here since 2015. Tim holds Maryland Board of Plumbing License #70218 (verifiable at dllr.state.md.us) and a separate Maryland gas fitter certification. He works in the field personally. When you call Fitchet Plumbing, you get the owner, not a dispatcher routing a commissioned technician to your door.
Tim Fitchet, Who He Is and Where He’s From
Tim Fitchet grew up in Severna Park. He went to school here. He learned the community’s streets, its waterfront neighbourhoods, its housing stock, the 1968 ranch homes in Chartwell with original galvanized supply lines, the 1974 colonials in Severna Forest with cast iron sewer stacks, the 1984 builds in Cypress Creek with polybutylene running throughout. He didn’t read about these pipe systems in a textbook. He’s been working on them, in crawlspaces and utility rooms throughout ZIP 21146, since before he had his licence.
In 2015, Tim started Fitchet Plumbing. Not as a franchise. Not backed by a private equity firm measuring revenue-per-call. As a licensed plumber who wanted to do the work correctly, quote honestly, and build a business in the community he grew up in. Eleven years later, that’s still the operating model, one owner, one licence, one standard of work across every job in Severna Park and Anne Arundel County.
The Experience Behind the Licence
Tim’s experience with Severna Park’s specific plumbing conditions isn’t incidental, it’s the reason Fitchet Plumbing exists as a local alternative to national franchise operators in this market.
Chesapeake Bay hard water
Tim has been working with Chesapeake Bay watershed water conditions since he started in the trade. He knows what a 7-year-old water heater looks like inside when it hasn’t had annual sediment service in Severna Park’s hard water, the anode rod stripped to its core wire, the tank bottom carrying two inches of calcium sediment, the expansion tank bladder waterlogged. He knows because he’s opened hundreds of them. The recommendation he makes after looking at your water heater isn’t from a price book, it’s from that accumulated experience.
The housing stock
Severna Park’s residential development peak was 1960 to 1985. The majority of service calls Tim handles are in homes from this era, homes with supply systems that are 40 to 60 years old, drain stacks with root pressure from mature trees that have been growing toward joint failures for decades, shower valves with original cartridges that have run Chesapeake Bay mineral-laden water through their ceramic sealing faces for 35 years. This is the work Tim learned on. It’s the work he knows best.
The seasonal conditions
Maryland’s spring groundwater rise, the Magothy and Severn River drainage area raising the water table across the entire peninsula between February and April, produces a specific sump pump demand pattern that Tim plans for each year. The battery backup installations in Round Bay, Ben Oaks, and Linstead on the Severn aren’t generic sump pump service calls. They’re specific to the flooding risk profile of those communities. Tim knows that profile because he grew up in it.
The tree canopy
The mature oak, maple, and sweetgum root systems throughout Chartwell, Olde Severna Park, and the B&A Trail corridor have had 40 to 60 years to grow toward cast iron sewer joint failures. Tim has camera-scoped enough of Severna Park’s main sewer lines to know which neighbourhoods have the highest root intrusion frequency and what the camera footage typically looks like before a full backup. That’s pattern recognition built from 11 years of calls in the same community.
Maryland Plumbing License #70218: Meaning and Verification
The Maryland Board of Plumbing requires Master Plumber licensure to operate an independent plumbing business in Maryland. The Master Plumber licence requires documented apprenticeship hours, journeyman experience, and a written examination administered by the Maryland Department of Labor. It is not a registration, it is a tested, monitored credential.
Tim Fitchet holds Maryland Board of Plumbing Licence #70218. This licence is:
- Active, renewed and current as of 2026
- Verifiable, go to dllr.state.md.us, navigate to Occupational and Professional Licensing, select Master Plumber, and enter #70218
- The licence on every permit, when Fitchet Plumbing pulls an Anne Arundel County permit for a water heater replacement, a sewer line repair, or a whole-house repipe, Tim’s licence number #70218 is on that permit. The permit inspection is a check on Tim’s work, not a formality.
Tim also holds a separate Maryland gas fitter certification, required to install, repair, or modify gas piping systems in Maryland. This certification covers all gas line work: outdoor kitchen gas connections, gas line extensions to new appliances, gas supply line sizing and repair.
Why this matters in Severna Park’s market:
Several plumbing operators serving Severna Park and Anne Arundel County operate without a confirmed verifiable Master Plumber licence number they can provide on request. At a $647,000 average home value, the person working on your plumbing should hold a licence you can verify in 60 seconds at dllr.state.md.us. Tim’s is #70218. Verify it before booking anyone.
How Fitchet Plumbing Works, What Makes It Different
The owner does the work
Tim Fitchet is not a manager who shows up for client meetings. He is the plumber. He assesses the job, gives you the flat-rate quote, performs the work, and signs the service report. The licence number on the permit is his personal credential, his accountability is direct, not filtered through a company management layer.
Flat-rate pricing, agreed before anything starts
The quote after diagnosis is the price on the invoice. No hourly rates that keep running. No add-ons discovered after the wall is opened. No “we found something else while we were in there” without coming back to you first and getting explicit approval. One price. Agreed upfront. Matched on the invoice.
No commission structure on recommendations
Tim’s income is the business’s revenue, not a percentage of each individual job’s scope. There is no financial incentive to recommend a $1,400 water heater replacement over a $280 anode rod service call when the anode rod is the correct solution. The recommendation reflects what the job actually requires. Nothing else.
Camera before clearing
Every main sewer line call gets a camera before anything is cleared. You see the footage on screen. You know what’s blocking the line before Tim quotes the clearing method. This is standard at Fitchet Plumbing, not an upsell.
All permits pulled
Water heater replacements, sewer line work, repiping, gas line work, bathroom additions, every job that requires an Anne Arundel County permit gets one. Pulled by Tim before work starts. Included in the quoted price. Inspected before walls close. The permit record is the documentation that protects your home’s value and your insurance coverage.
No referral fees from restoration companies
If your Severna Park home has experienced water damage from a plumbing failure, Tim gives you your insurance company’s claim number and directs you to open the claim directly. He doesn’t accept referral fees from water damage restoration companies. The restoration decision belongs to you and your insurer.
Open 7 days a week
Saturday and Sunday at the same rate as Tuesday. Two of the most visible plumbing companies serving Severna Park are closed weekends, confirmed on their own websites as of September 2026. A sump pump that fails during a Saturday night spring storm in Round Bay doesn’t wait until Monday.
Fitchet Plumbing and Severna Park, An 11-Year Record
Since 2015, Fitchet Plumbing has been the plumbing call for homes across Severna Park’s neighbourhoods, Chartwell, Round Bay, Olde Severna Park, Ben Oaks, Linstead on the Severn, Severna Forest, Cypress Creek, Amberley, Cape Arthur, and Berrywood, as well as the surrounding communities of Arnold, Pasadena, Millersville, Crownsville, Glen Burnie, Annapolis, Cape St. Claire, and the B&A Trail corridor.
In 11 years of local operation, the pattern of work is consistent: the same types of calls, in the same types of homes, with the same Chesapeake Bay hard water conditions and the same seasonal groundwater dynamics. That consistency builds a level of local diagnostic accuracy that a technician dispatched from a regional company, without this specific community context, can’t replicate from a first visit.
The specific conditions that make Severna Park plumbing different from other Anne Arundel County communities, the waterfront groundwater pressure, the 1960–1985 housing stock pipe systems, the Chesapeake Bay watershed mineral content, are conditions Tim has worked with every year since 2015. They’re not abstract knowledge. They’re the operational reality of every service call in this area.
Second Opinion Policy, Because It Protects the Relationship
Fitchet Plumbing explicitly offers second opinions on major plumbing quotes in Severna Park. If you’ve received a recommendation for full sewer line replacement, whole-house repiping, a slab leak excavation, or a water heater replacement, and the scope felt larger than the symptom description warranted, call (667) 350-0038.
Tim will run his own assessment. You’ll see the camera footage, the pipe assessment photos, or the water heater inspection results before any recommendation is made. If the first company’s recommendation was correct, Tim will tell you that honestly, and you can proceed with whomever you choose. If the scope was overstated relative to the actual condition, you’ll have documented evidence to make a different decision.
In approximately 40% of second opinion calls, Fitchet Plumbing’s finding is that the first recommendation was appropriate. In the remaining cases, a less invasive or lower-cost approach was identified. The second opinion exists because the relationship with the community where Tim lives and works depends on the reputation for honest assessment, not on the revenue generated by any single service call.
Credentials and Verifications
Maryland Board of Plumbing License
#70218, Master Plumber, Active 2026
dllr.state.md.us → Occupational Licensing → Master Plumber → #70218
Maryland Gas Fitter Certification
Active, covers all gas line installation and repair
dllr.state.md.us → Occupational Licensing
In Business Since
2015, 11 years serving Severna Park
Anne Arundel County business records
Anne Arundel County Permit History
Active permit holder, all required work
Anne Arundel County Dept of Inspections and Permits
General Liability Insurance
Current, certificate available on request
Call (667) 350-0038 to request
Born and Raised
Severna Park, MD
Contact and Service Area
Tim Fitchet, Fitchet Plumbing
Phone: (667) 350-0038
Email: contact@fitchetplumbing.com
Address: 574 Ritchie Hwy, Unit E #126, Severna Park, MD 21146
Facebook: facebook.com/fitchet
Hours: Monday–Friday 7am–8pm · Saturday 7am–6pm · Sunday 8am–5pm
MD License: #70218
Primary service area: Severna Park MD 21146, all neighbourhoods including Chartwell, Round Bay, Olde Severna Park, Ben Oaks, Linstead on the Severn, Severna Forest, Cypress Creek, Amberley, Cape Arthur, Berrywood
Satellite service area: Arnold (21012) · Pasadena (21122) · Millersville (21108) · Crownsville (21032) · Glen Burnie (21060) · Annapolis (21401) · Cape St. Claire · B&A Trail Area
About Fitchet Plumbing: common questions
When was Fitchet Plumbing founded?
Tim Fitchet founded Fitchet Plumbing in 2015. He grew up in Severna Park and continues to serve local homeowners and Anne Arundel County.
Does Tim personally do the plumbing work?
Yes. Tim works in the field personally. On larger projects, additional team members work under his direct supervision.
How can I verify the plumbing licence?
Visit the Maryland Department of Labor’s occupational licensing website and search for plumbing licence #70218.
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