Nights, weekends, holidays: 24-hour emergency response
A plumber for Los Angeles, with the phone picked up day and night
Ring us whenever the trouble starts. From our Los Angeles location, we dispatch a plumber to your door in Los Angeles, CA, and no pipe is opened until you have read and accepted a written price. The work falls under the C-36 license on our CSLB record, and you keep a written workmanship warranty on what we fix.
- C-36 license #1131308
- ★ on Google, reviewsas of
- Phone answered 24/7
Services
Plumbing repairs we handle in Los Angeles
Emergency Plumbing
Water is dripping through the kitchen ceiling, and nobody is answering the door of the unit upstairs.
Drain Cleaning & Hydro Jetting
The toilet gurgles whenever the neighbor upstairs drains a bath, and the kitchen sink is slow again.
Water Heater Repair & Installation
The heater crackles and booms each time it fires, and the second shower of the morning turns lukewarm.
Leak & Gas Leak Detection
A whiff of rotten eggs drifts from behind the dryer, or the meter dial creeps along while every faucet is closed.
Sewer Repair & Repiping
The shower floods with wastewater every few months, and the first water from the tap each morning comes out brown.
Before you call
Six facts you can check on your own
A license you can look up
Type #1131308 into the CSLB license search. The public record lists C-36 Plumbing and a $25,000 contractor bond.
Picked up at any hour
Call on a weeknight, a Sunday morning or a holiday. A person answers, writes down what is happening and sends a plumber to your address.
The price, in writing, first
Nobody opens a wall or cuts a pipe until you have approved the written quote, so nothing is counting up by the hour while the plumber works.
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Sent from Los Angeles
We are based in Los Angeles. Each call is taken at our Los Angeles location, which sends the plumber to your address in Los Angeles.
Workmanship warranty on paper
When we finish a repair or an installation, a written workmanship warranty covers it.
Local plumbing
What homes in Los Angeles tend to need from a plumber
Los Angeles stretches across about 470 square miles, from the San Fernando Valley down to the harbor at San Pedro, and the plumbing changes with the ground it sits on. In Highland Park, Silver Lake and West Adams, bungalows in the Craftsman style and Spanish Revival homes built between the 1910s and the 1930s often stand on raised foundations over crawl spaces, fed by galvanized steel and drained through cast iron and clay laterals that street tree roots creep into. Out in the Valley, postwar ranch houses rest on concrete slabs, and that is where copper pinholes under the floor. Only about 36 percent of the city's homes are detached houses, so a great many Angelenos live in apartment buildings whose shared cast iron stacks can carry a backup from one floor to another. LADWP water is hard enough to leave scale in water heaters, valves and faucets. Los Angeles is our base, and our Los Angeles location handles every call.
When a job calls for a permit (say, a sewer lateral, new gas piping, a repipe or a water heater swap), the City of Los Angeles issues it. We file the application, book the inspector and see the permit through to its final sign-off.
ZIP codes we serve in Los Angeles include
- 90004
- 90012
- 90026
- 90028
- 90036
- 90045
- 90064
- 91401
- 91601
- 90731
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What callers in Los Angeles ask us
LADWP sends my water bill. Where does their pipe end and mine start?
LADWP, the city's Department of Water and Power, is responsible for the main and the line up to your meter. From the meter into the house, the supply pipe belongs to the owner. Sewage splits the same way: the public sewer main belongs to LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN), and the private lateral that connects your house to it is yours. When the fault is on your side, the plumber points it out and puts the repair in a written quote before any digging.
My house in Silver Lake sits below the street. What is the pump in the lower level for?
It is most likely a sewage ejector pump. Wastewater cannot flow uphill to a sewer main that runs higher than the house, so the pump lifts it into the lateral. Hillside homes in the Hollywood Hills, Mount Washington and Silver Lake often depend on one. If its alarm goes off or a fixture on the lowest floor starts to back up, call us: the plumber tests the pump, the float and the check valve, and writes up the fix before replacing anything.
The water bill on my Van Nuys ranch house jumped and one spot on the floor feels warm. Is that a slab leak?
Those are two of the classic signs. Postwar houses across the San Fernando Valley were built on concrete slabs with copper lines underneath, and that copper can pinhole after decades. The plumber confirms where the leak is, then gives you a written quote that compares opening the slab for a spot repair with rerouting the line above the floor. If water starts surfacing through the floor at night, call our 24-hour emergency response line.
How can I check your license before a plumber comes to my home in Los Angeles?
Go to the CSLB website and look up license #1131308. The listing gives the classification as C-36 Plumbing, first issued on January 6, 2025 and set to expire on January 31, 2027, along with a contractor bond of $25,000. It is public, so you can read it before you ever call us.
Water on the floor or a drain backing up in Los Angeles: phone us at any hour
Late at night, on a weekend or on a holiday, a person picks up the phone. The C-36 license and a contractor bond stand behind the work, and the plumber begins only once you have signed off on the written quote.
Call us at (213) 660-7353