Serving Fountain Valley
Fountain Valley sits on flat ground between Huntington Beach, Westminster, Garden Grove and Santa Ana, and across the Santa Ana River lies Costa Mesa, home to one of our 10 locations. A person answers the phone at every hour, and a plumber heads out from the nearest of our locations to your house, from the blocks around Mile Square Regional Park to the streets along the river. You describe what you see and hear, and the plumber works out the cause on site.
Housing in Fountain Valley went up over a short span of years. The census counts 19,227 housing units in the city; 82 percent were built before 1980, and the median one in 1972. Single-family detached houses are 68 percent of the total, so this is mostly a city of standalone homes on their own lots. When a whole neighborhood is built in one decade, its water heaters, valves and pipes tend to wear out in the same years too.
Those homes were built as flat tracts on concrete slabs, so the hot and cold copper lines run under the floor rather than through a crawlspace. After five decades of hard water, a line can thin and leak where nobody can see it. The clues are a warm stretch of floor, a carpet that stays damp along one wall, the meter dial moving when every fixture is off, or a water heater that seems to run all the time.
Fixing a slab leak does not always mean breaking up the floor. Once the leak is located, the choice is between a spot repair through the slab and rerouting the line through the walls or attic, and you see both prices in writing before you decide. A repipe, a water heater change, a gas line repair or new sewer lateral work each needs a Fountain Valley city permit, which we obtain and close after inspection.
Fountain Valley sits next to Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Westminster and Garden Grove, all of which we serve as well. The plumber heads out from whichever of our locations is nearest. Someone picks up the phone day and night, the cause is found before anything gets opened up, and the price is settled in writing before the job begins.
ZIP codes in Fountain Valley
- 92708