Drain cleaning and blockages
Kitchen sinks, tubs, toilets, floor drains, and the main line when the whole house backs up.
Snaking, jetting, main line clogs.
Los Angeles · Homes and small commercial buildings
We fix plumbing problems across Los Angeles.
Drains, water heaters, leaks, fixtures, sewer lines. We come and look before we tell you what it takes.
Call (310) 857-2520
Tell us what is wrong and we will take it from there.
What you get from us, every job
- A fixed price where the job is fixed, and a range where the job calls for one.
- You see what we found before you approve anything expensive.
- Two ways to fix it, and the one we will not push.
- Homes, apartment buildings, restaurants and small offices.
What we fix
Most of the calls we get are about one of these. We do the rest of it too.
Leak detection and repair
Under a sink, behind a wall, in a ceiling, under a slab. We find where it is before we tell you what it takes to get to it.
Slab leaks, pinholes, running meters.
Water heaters
Thermocouples, anodes, valves, and replacement when the tank is finished.
Tank, tankless, no hot water.
Fixtures and repipes
Faucets, toilets, shutoffs, angle stops, hose bibs. A section of pipe, or the whole house.
Copper, PEX, replumbs.
Sewer lines
Roots, breaks, bellies, and the run from the house out to the main.
Camera, spot repair, no dig.
Emergency plumbing
A burst pipe, no water in the house, sewage coming back up. Tell us that first when you call.
We answer day and night, every day, including weekends and holidays.
Restaurants, small offices and apartment buildings: we do commercial work too.
What happens after you call
The worst part of a bad plumbing job is usually not knowing what happens next.
- 1You call, or you send us what is wrong.A sentence and a ZIP is enough to start.
- 2We tell you when we can be there, and we give you a window.Same day, and we tell you the window before we set off so you are not waiting around all afternoon.
- 3If that window moves, you hear it from us before it moves.Not after you have waited through it.
- 4We look. Then we tell you what we found, in plain words, while we are still there.Not in a report that arrives the next day.
- 5You decide what happens next.Including deciding to do nothing yet.
Before we ask you to approve anything expensive
Small jobs we just do. When the job gets big and the problem is somewhere you cannot see, you get to look at it first.
- You watch the camera screen with us, while we are still down the line.
- We photograph what we found and where it is.
- We tell you how far along the line it sits and what it is sitting in.
- You get the findings in writing, in words you can read out to somebody else.
The findings are part of the job. They are not a product we sell separately.
If nothing needs doing yet, we will tell you that.
Coming out to look is free. You get the price before anything starts, and you pay for work, not for the visit.
The four ways a sewer line gets fixed
Open cutThe line is dug up and replaced along its length.
Spot repairOne bad section is cut out and replaced. The rest stays.
Lining No digA new pipe is formed inside the old one.
Bursting No digThe old pipe is split outward and a new one pulled through.
What goes wrong in houses here
Most plumbing arguments are about something nobody at the table has seen. These are three of them, and they are in a lot of Los Angeles houses.
Two ways to fix it, and the one we will not push
Most plumbing problems have more than one answer. The expensive one is not always the right one.
Repair what is there
Costs less now. Buys you time. On an old line or an old tank it can come back, and we will tell you if we think it will.
Replace the section
Costs more now. Lasts longer. Means opening something up and putting it back.
And the third one. Leave it alone for now.
If that is the right answer for your house, we will say it, and we will tell you what to watch for.
How we price it
Most people want to know what the number is made of before they want it lower.
- A fixed price.
When the job is the same job whatever we find. A water heater swapped for one of the same kind. A faucet. A shutoff valve. You get the number before we start and that is the number on the bill.
- A range, with both ends of it.
When the work is known and the amount of it is not. Clearing a main line. Running new pipe inside a wall that is already open. You get the top of the range as well as the bottom.
- We cannot price this until we have looked.
When the problem is somewhere nobody has seen yet. A leak under a slab. A sewer line that has never had a camera down it. We will tell you that, and we will not guess at a number.
What moves the number
- How we get to it. A crawlspace, a slab, a second floor, the back of a tiled wall.
- What the pipe is made of.Cast ironClayGalvanizedCopperPEX
- How much of it has to come out.
- Whether a wall, a floor or concrete has to be opened, and put back.
- Whether the work needs a permit and an inspection. You pay the permit fee to the city directly, and it is not in our number.
- What time of day it is.
- What we find once it is open.
If we find something that changes the price, we stop and tell you before we do any more. Nothing extra gets done without you agreeing to it first.
How we leave your house
The job is not finished when the water runs.
- What goes down before we start
Floor covering and a path from the door to the work.
- If a room has to be emptied
We will tell you when we book it, not when we arrive.
- What gets patched, and what does not
We close the wall or floor back up and leave the place clean. We do not paint or tile it back to match, and we will tell you that before we start.
- What leaves with us
The old parts, the packaging and the debris. The old water heater does not sit in the driveway for a week.
- What happens if something gets damaged
If we damage something while we are working, we make it right. You do not argue with us about it and you do not pay for it.
Already been quoted for something big?
Tell us what you were quoted, and for what. Keep any photos or video they gave you handy for when we call, and we will tell you what we make of it.
The warranty on our work
Our work is covered for a year.
Every repair and installation we do carries a one-year warranty on parts and labor: if our work or a part we installed fails within a year of the day we finished, we come back and make it right at no charge.
What changes street to street in Los Angeles
Place changes the plumbing here more than it changes the customer, and it does not change along city boundaries.
What your house sits on
The pipe runs in or under the concrete. Finding a leak takes equipment, not a flashlight, and reaching it means opening the floor and putting it back.
The pipe runs under the floor in the open. We can get down there and see all of it, which is usually why the same repair is a smaller job here.
The era of the house is the first thing we ask about.
Who owns the sewer under your street
The City, a county district, an independent city or a septic system. It decides what permit applies and who may dig, and it changes block to block.
What is in the water
Water is harder on one side of the city than the other, which is why one water heater is full of sediment at the same age another one is clean.
Questions people ask us
Is this my line or the city's?
One fixture backing up is usually local to that fixture. Several fixtures, or a whole house, points at the main line. In the City of Los Angeles the line from your house to the sewer main is the property owner's, including the part that runs under the parkway and the street.
Does my house even have a slab?
Many postwar tract houses do. Older houses are often raised, with a crawlspace under the floor. It decides whether a leak is a crawlspace repair or work in concrete, and those are different jobs at different prices. We look before we tell you which one you have.
Snake it or jet it?
A cable opens a blocked line. Jetting scours the wall of the pipe. What the line is made of, what is in it and how old it is decide which one is worth doing, and on some lines jetting is the wrong answer. We tell you which and why.
No hot water. Is it the heater or something small?
Often it is the thermocouple, the pilot assembly, an element or a thermostat, and that is a repair. A tank leaking from the body itself is finished. We check the small things first.
Tankless or another tank?
It changes more than the heater. Gas line size, venting, where it hangs and how often it needs descaling in this city. We will tell you what your house would need before you spend anything on the question.
Will you have to open a wall or break concrete?
Sometimes. We will tell you before we start what has to be opened and what we put back.
Can you give me a price on the phone?
For some jobs, yes, and it is the number on the bill. For others we will give you both ends of a range. When the problem is somewhere nobody has seen yet, we will tell you we cannot price it until we have looked.
I rent. Can I book you?
The work has to be approved by whoever owns the building. Tell us when you call and we will tell you what that takes.
Tell us what is wrong.
Say what the problem is and where you are. We will tell you what we can do and what it takes.
Our work is covered for a year.