Paradise Palms broke ground on March 21, 1960 as Clark County's first master-planned community, laid out by Irwin Molasky and Merv Adelson around the course that opened as the Stardust Country Club and is now Las Vegas National Golf Club. Roughly 1,000 homes sit on 1,044 lots, about 400 of them designed by Palmer and Krisel and built between 1960 and 1964, with others by Hugh E. Taylor and William M. Bray. Flat, folded plate, butterfly and pyramid roofs make it the valley's best-known mid-century modern neighborhood, and since 2017 it has carried Clark County's first Historic Neighborhood Overlay, now about 240 acres west of Eastern Avenue and south of Desert Inn Road. Interior repairs do not change the character of the street, but exterior equipment such as a tankless unit or a treatment system on a visible elevation should be cleared with Clark County first.
The architecture shapes the plumbing. Palmer and Krisel houses are post-and-beam with flat or low-pitch roofs and little or no attic, so the usual repipe route overhead is often not available. New supply lines are planned through walls, soffits and other paths, which takes longer and costs more than the same job in a pitched-roof house, and we work that out before giving a price. Original supply here is typically 1960s copper, now well past the age where pinhole leaks begin, with cast iron drain, waste and vent pipe that scales, cracks and separates at joints. Repeated slow drains usually mean the cast iron, and our Drain & Sewer Services use a camera rather than cabling the same line again and again. Many homes also mix original copper, later repairs and newer PEX, so dissimilar metal joints get a close look.
The homes are slab-on-grade, and when a line fails under original terrazzo or restored flooring, rerouting through our Pipe & Fixture Services is usually the better choice than breaking the slab. Homes plumbed before 1986 may have lead solder, so Water Treatment testing is worth considering, and with water at about 280 parts per million, roughly 16 grains per gallon, treatment also protects restored fixtures. Emergency Plumbing is open 24/7. Call Active Plumbing at (702) 438-3357.