Plumber in Huntington Beach

Serving Huntington Beach

Huntington Beach runs along the coast from Seal Beach to the Santa Ana River, with West Newport on the far bank, and inland it meets Westminster, Fountain Valley and Costa Mesa, where we have one of our 10 locations. Whenever you call, a person picks up, and whichever location of ours is closest handles the visit, whether your address is in Huntington Harbour, downtown by the Huntington Beach Pier or on a street near Huntington Central Park.

This is a large city with a lot of houses from one era. Of its 82,624 housing units, 69 percent are older than 1980, and the median was built in 1974. Single-family detached homes are 47 percent of the total, with condos, townhomes and apartments making up the rest. Many of the houses sit on concrete slabs with their copper running beneath the floor, so a pinhole can drip out of sight until a warm floor or a higher bill gives it away.

Along the water, salt air adds a second kind of wear. In Huntington Harbour and the blocks closest to the beach, it corrodes exposed copper, hose bibs and the fittings on top of the water heater well ahead of the same parts a few miles inland. Green crust on a pipe, a spigot that drips however hard you close it, or rust streaks running down a water heater are early signs, worth a call before any of them turns into a leak.

Every water heater swap, repipe, lateral rebuild and gas line job in town needs a permit from the City of Huntington Beach. We pull it, give a new water heater its pair of seismic straps and its relief valve line, pressure test any gas work, and close the permit once the inspector approves the job. On a slab home, rerouting a failing line through the walls is often an alternative to breaking the floor.

Huntington Beach sits next to Westminster, Fountain Valley, Seal Beach, Newport Beach and Costa Mesa, 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.