Plumbing repairs and installs throughout Los Altos, CA — licensed, insured, and straight with you about what it needs.
Everything from a dripping faucet to a new main water line.
Burst pipes, sewage backups and no-water calls in Los Altos answered around the clock, starting with getting your main shutoff closed.
No hot water in Los Altos? Most units under eight years old are worth repairing and we will tell you when yours is not.
Whole-house treatment installed in Los Altos with unions so it can be serviced, and the salt setup explained to you.
Hidden leaks under slabs, inside walls and out in the yard, found with pressure tests and listening gear before anything is opened.
New disposal installed in Los Altos with the mounting and the dishwasher connection done properly.
Fixture replacement in Los Altos with the shutoffs and supply lines updated while everything is apart.
Grease, roots or a broken section — the Los Altos drain gets cleared and you find out which one it was.
Failing galvanized, polybutylene and corroded copper in Los Altos replaced with new copper or PEX, room by room.
New toilet installation in Los Altos including haul-away of the old one and a proper seal at the floor.
A wet spot in the yard and low pressure inside usually means the service line. We locate it before breaking ground.
Sump pump repair, replacement and battery backup in Los Altos so the basement stays dry when the power goes with the storm.
A split line can put hundreds of gallons into a Los Altos house in an hour. Emergency repair available day or night.
Gas leaks located and repaired in Los Altos, plus new lines run to ranges, dryers, water heaters and grills.
Main sewer line breaks in Los Altos camera-inspected first, then spot repaired or replaced, trenchless where depth allows.
Submersible and jet pump replacement for Los Altos area wells, with the pressure set correctly before we go.
Los Altos runs on a mix of housing stock — a core of older homes on original supply lines and newer streets on PEX and plastic drain. With about 43,405 residents, the calls coming out of Los Altos split almost evenly between things that broke and things that were never installed right.
A plumber working Los Altos, California needs to be comfortable with both. The same week can bring a polybutylene repipe on one street and a tankless descale on another, and you cannot do either well if you only know the trade from one era.
What you actually get when you call us.
This started as two people and a truck in 1998 and grew on water, sewer and drain work. Nearly three decades in one trade, not a franchise name bought off a shelf last year.
Drop cloths go down, cuts get made clean so the patch is easy, and the old tank or fixture leaves with the truck. The room should look better than we found it.
You hear the number before a wrench moves. No hourly meter running while you stand there, and no discovering the real cost after the wall is open.
Burst pipes and sewage backups do not wait for business hours. The phone is answered at night and on weekends, and the first thing you get is help finding your shutoff.
Told you need a full repipe or a new sewer line? Get it looked at again. Sometimes it is a smaller fix, and sometimes we confirm the first plumber was right so you can spend with confidence.
What you probably want to know before you book.
Yes, and it starts with an actual water test rather than a guess. Hardness, iron and sulfur all need different equipment, so the Los Altos system gets sized off what is really in your water.
Almost always. A cable machine or hydro jet goes in through an existing cleanout and clears the line from there. In Los Altos the camera goes down afterward so you can see whether it was grease, roots or a broken section.
That is the classic hidden leak — usually a slab leak, an underground service line, or a toilet flapper passing water quietly all night. A Los Altos leak detection visit puts a pressure gauge on the system and finds it without digging up the yard first.
Under about eight years old with a bad element, thermostat or valve, repair is usually the better money in Los Altos. Past twelve years, or if the tank itself is weeping, replacement is the honest answer and we will say so.
You get a price for the repair before any work starts, not an hourly meter that runs while you watch. The diagnostic visit in Los Altos is quoted up front on the phone, and if you approve the repair that visit charge goes toward the job.
A camera goes down the line first so you can see the break and how deep it is. Where the depth and the yard allow it, a Los Altos sewer repair can be done trenchless and leave most of the lawn alone.
The work speaks, but so do the people who paid for it.
"Water heater let go on a Sunday morning and flooded half the basement. Had someone here inside two hours, new tank in by afternoon, and he hauled the old one off. Price was what he said on the phone."
"Well pump quit on a holiday weekend. He got the pressure switch replaced same day and told me the tank had maybe a year left rather than selling me one right then. Called him back for the tank in the spring."
"Tankless unit was throwing an error code every other shower. Descaled it, replaced a sensor, walked me through the yearly flush so I can do it myself."
Same crews, same pricing, neighboring areas.