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 Van Nuys
Looking for a plumber in Van Nuys? We work in apartment buildings as well as in houses, and the plumbing in each fails in its own way.
We answer day and night, every day, including weekends and holidays.
If you rent, the repair is yours to report and the owner's to approve. Mention it when you call. We can speak to the landlord or the building manager ourselves, so you do not have to carry messages between us.
Drain cleaning and rooter work in Van Nuys
A slow sink is usually a clog a foot or two from the fixture. When the tub gurgles as the toilet flushes, or water rises in a floor drain, the blockage is further down, often in the main line.
Plenty of people call clearing that line rooter work. It means feeding a cable in from a cleanout to cut through whatever is stopping it. In an apartment building, the kitchen lines of units stacked above each other often join, so a clog upstairs can come up in the sink below. More on drain cleaning.
When a main line backs up at night
When sewage comes up through a drain in an apartment building, the ground-floor units see it before anyone else, because their drains are the lowest. Ask everyone upstairs to stop running water, then call us as your 24-hour plumber in Van Nuys. The emergency plumbing page covers a burst pipe as well.
Tell us what you can see and what you can hear, and we will tell you what it most likely is.
Apartment blocks and single-family streets
Many of the apartment buildings in Van Nuys are on the side streets off Van Nuys Boulevard, and there are blocks of single-family houses nearer Van Nuys Airport. In a house, what shapes a leak repair is whether the floor sits on a concrete slab or over a crawlspace, because that decides how we reach the pipe. Our service area page explains the difference.
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.
Questions from Van Nuys
Is rooter service different from drain cleaning?
Mostly in name. Rooter service usually means cabling a blocked main line. Drain cleaning covers that and the smaller lines under sinks and tubs.
Can you work on a line the whole building shares?
Yes, once the owner or the manager has agreed to it, since a shared line affects every unit on it.
Do you charge to come out and look?
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.