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.
Plumber in San Pedro
Calling a plumber in San Pedro about a blocked drain or a water heater that has stopped heating? The age of the house is usually our first clue.
We answer day and night, every day, including weekends and holidays.
San Pedro has houses from the early 1900s on its older streets and houses from the 1960s on the hill above the harbor, and the two fail in different places.
Drains and sewer lines in San Pedro
In many older houses the floor is raised over a crawlspace, so the drain pipes under it can be seen and reached. That makes a cracked section of cast iron a smaller job than it would be under a slab. A main line that is backing up is still cleared from outside, at the cleanout.
If the same line blocks again and again, a camera down it shows what is going on, and in an older house it is often the pipe itself. Read about drain cleaning and sewer lines.
Water heater repair in San Pedro
Inside every tank water heater is an anode rod, a metal rod that wears away on purpose so the steel tank around it lasts longer. Once it is used up, the tank starts to rust from the inside, and a leak from the tank itself is the end of that heater. A heater that has lost its hot water but is not leaking is often a repair. Water heaters has the details, including when a replacement makes more sense.
Tell us what you can see and what you can hear, and we will tell you what it most likely is.
Water getting in right now
If you need an emergency plumber in San Pedro, the first job is closing the main shutoff. In an older house it may be a round-handled gate valve that has not been turned in years. Turn it firmly by hand. If it will not move, do not force it with a wrench, because a valve that snaps makes things worse. Say so when you call, and see emergency plumbing for what else helps.
Galvanized pipe and weak pressure
In the old houses of Vinegar Hill, and on plenty of the older streets near Point Fermin, the supply pipe may be galvanized steel. It narrows inside as it rusts, and you notice it as weak pressure at the faucet. The newer houses of South Shores are less likely to have it. Replacing it is a bigger job, and fixtures and repipes explains when it is worth doing.
What happens after you call
- You call, or you send us what is wrong.A sentence and a ZIP is enough to start.
- We 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.
- If that window moves, you hear it from us before it moves.Not after you have waited through it.
- We 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.
- You decide what happens next.Including deciding to do nothing yet.
San Pedro questions
My water heater pops and rumbles. Is it failing?
Usually that is sediment on the bottom of the tank, and the heater is working harder to heat through it. On a younger heater, flushing it can help. On an older one, we will tell you how much life it likely has left.
How much does a plumber in San Pedro charge?
It depends on the job, so we do not quote a number blind. A faucet or a valve gets a fixed price. Clearing a main line gets a range. A hidden leak has to be found first.
Coming out to look is free. You get the price before anything starts, and you pay for work, not for the visit.
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.
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.