Los Angeles is where we are based, and the whole county is where we work. Calls come in from people in houses and in apartments, from landlords with a building full of tenants, from condo boards, and from restaurants and small businesses, and a person answers every one of them.
The first few things that happen on a night call
SoCal Emergency Plumbing Los Angeles is set up for the bad hours: a flex line under a bathroom sink lets go, a toilet on the second floor overflows into the unit below, sewage comes up through the tub, or the tank heater in a closet starts pooling water. Before we hang up, we help you stop the water. In a house that is usually the main shutoff where the supply line comes in, or the valve inside the meter box at the curb; in an apartment it may be a valve under the fixture or the building's main, which the manager can reach. Then the plumber sets out from our Los Angeles location.
Los Angeles incorporated on April 4, 1850, and today it holds about 1,554,300 homes. The median one was built in 1965, 70 percent went up before 1980, and only about 36 percent are detached houses, so most Angelenos live in apartments and condos. The plumbing follows the eras. Craftsman bungalows and Spanish Revival houses from the 1910s to the 1930s in Highland Park, Silver Lake, Mid-City and West Adams sit on raised foundations over crawl spaces, with galvanized steel supply lines, cast iron drains and clay laterals that the roots of old street trees work into. Postwar ranch houses across the San Fernando Valley sit on concrete slabs, and the copper under them develops pinholes. On hillside streets in the Hollywood Hills and Mount Washington the laterals run long and steep, street pressure is high enough to wear out regulators, and a house below the street may depend on a sewage ejector pump. Older apartment buildings share cast iron stacks, so a clog on one floor can surface on another. On top of that, LADWP water is hard and leaves scale behind. All of this is why the plumber tests the line or reads the pressure before any price is discussed.
A license and bond you can look up
The work is done under CSLB #1131308 (C-36 Plumbing). A $25,000 contractor bond backs it on the state board's books, and one public search on the CSLB site pulls up both.
A real voice on the phone
Call at midnight, at dawn on a Saturday or on New Year's Day, and someone able to help answers. No menu of options, no voicemail box.
Based in Los Angeles
We keep one location, in Los Angeles, and every call in the county is handled from it. The plumber comes to you, so there is nowhere you need to go.
The room left as we found it
Floors and carpet are covered before work starts, the old pipe and parts leave with the plumber, and the repair is all that stays behind.
What you get on paper
Straight talk
The plumber tells you what failed and why in ordinary words, and does not push work your house or building can do without.
Written estimate first
The written estimate comes first. Nothing gets cut open or swapped out until you have signed it, so the cost is settled before the job begins.
A warranty on the work
Each repair and installation comes with our written workmanship warranty. Should our work fail, the plumber comes back to correct it.
Plumbing work we handle
Across Los Angeles the calls follow the housing: galvanized pipe rusting shut in a Craftsman, a slab leak warming the floor of a Sherman Oaks ranch house, a tank heater full of scale from LADWP water, a clay lateral packed with roots in West Adams, an ejector pump quitting on a Hollywood Hills lot, a shared stack backing up in a Koreatown building. Every service named below opens a page that covers the warning signs and the steps of the repair.
24/7 Emergency Plumbing
Burst lines, overflowing toilets, water coming through a ceiling, and any leak that cannot be left until morning.
Drain Cleaning & Hydro Jetting
Clogs cleared from a single sink up to the main line or a building's stack, then a camera run to confirm the pipe is open end to end.
Water Heater Repair & Installation
Tank and tankless units repaired, flushed of the scale hard water leaves, or replaced. California code wants two seismic straps on every new tank, and the temperature and pressure relief valve gets a discharge line run to a safe spot.
Sewer Repair & Repiping
Cracked or root-filled clay and cast iron laterals repaired or replaced, trenchless where the ground and the old pipe allow. Galvanized steel and thinning copper replaced with a whole-house repipe in PEX or copper.
Leak & Gas Leak Detection
Leaks under a slab or behind a wall found before anything is opened, and gas lines repaired and pressure tested so SoCalGas can turn the service back on.
Where we work
Our one location is in Los Angeles, and from there 24-hour emergency response reaches all 88 cities of Los Angeles County. Nine of them have a page on this site: Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Burbank, Culver City, Santa Monica, Glendale, Inglewood and San Fernando. Pasadena, Torrance, Long Beach and the rest of the county get the same service, only without a page of their own.
Check the license yourself
California license #1131308
The license is held by SoCal Plumbing Co Inc. Put #1131308 into the CSLB lookup online and the full record opens, so you can check it before a plumber rings your bell.
$25,000 contractor bond
Nationwide is the surety. The bond appears on the CSLB record beside the license, for any owner, renter, landlord or HOA board who wants to see it.
Permits pulled and closed
Inside the city of Los Angeles, the Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) is the permit authority for heater swaps, repipes, lateral replacements and gas line work. Beverly Hills, Burbank, Glendale, Santa Monica and each of the other cities in the county issue their own. We pull the permit the job calls for and close it after the inspection passes.
Written workmanship warranty
It covers every repair and every installation, and its terms are printed on the estimate you approve and again on the final invoice. Work of ours that gives out is redone under that warranty.
Common questions about SoCal Emergency Plumbing Los Angeles
License: CSLB #1131308, C-36 Plumbing, held by SoCal Plumbing Co Inc. Issue date January 6, 2025; expiration January 31, 2027. The $25,000 bond comes from Nationwide, and the CSLB site shows all of it.
Area: the city of Los Angeles, from the Valley to San Pedro, and every other city in Los Angeles County. The plumber travels to your address; you never have to bring anything anywhere.
Cost: set out in a written estimate, which you approve before work begins.
Who calls: homeowners, renters, condo owners, landlords and property managers with apartment buildings, HOA boards, and people running restaurants and small commercial spaces, for anything from a dripping angle stop to a full repipe.
Nights: (213) 660-7353 is answered at every hour, every day of the year. A floor going under water, a toilet or tub backing up with sewage, the smell of gas, a heater with no hot water: each one gets 24-hour emergency response.
Warranty: our written workmanship warranty backs each repair and installation, and its terms are on the estimate and invoice you keep. Any heater or fixture we install still carries the manufacturer's own warranty too.
Water on the floor or sewage backing up: call now.
One number for Los Angeles and the rest of the county, a person on the line at any hour, and a C-36 license and bond anyone can check on the CSLB record.