Anything that’s actively damaging your home or that leaves you without water, working drains, or safe gas service counts as an emergency: a burst pipe, a supply line that’s split, a toilet or washing machine hose flooding a room, a sewage backup coming up through a drain, or a complete loss of hot water in a house with people who need it. If water is moving somewhere it shouldn’t be, that’s an emergency call, not a wait-and-see.
A slow drain that’s been sluggish for two weeks, or a dripping faucet that’s been dripping since last spring, isn’t an emergency in the same sense. It’s worth fixing, but a daytime appointment is the right pace for it, not a middle-of-the-night dispatch. If you’re not sure which category your problem falls into, call and describe it; we’ll tell you honestly whether it needs someone tonight or whether tomorrow is fine.