Plumber in Santa Ana

Serving Santa Ana

Santa Ana is the Orange County seat, and it touches six other cities: Garden Grove, Tustin, Orange, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley and Irvine. Three of those, Orange, Costa Mesa and Irvine, are among our 10 locations, which puts help on more than one side of town. A person answers at any hour, your call is routed to the nearest of our locations, and a plumber drives to your address from there, whether it is downtown or out in the neighborhoods.

It is a big city with a lot of older housing. The census counts 83,701 housing units here; the median year built is 1969, and 74 percent of homes predate 1980. Single-family detached houses account for only 44 percent. Most of the rest are duplexes, apartment buildings and condos, and in a building like that one blocked line can reach several households, so the first question is where the blockage actually sits.

The prewar neighborhoods carry the oldest plumbing. In Floral Park, French Park, Washington Square, Wilshire Square and around Downtown Santa Ana, many homes still have galvanized water lines that close up with rust from the inside, and their drains are often cast iron or clay. The mature trees that shade those streets send roots toward the sewer laterals and into any cracked joint. On these houses we inspect first and recommend second, because in a prewar house the pipe behind one wall can be decades older than the pipe behind the next.

A permit from the City of Santa Ana is required to change a water heater, repipe a house, rebuild a sewer lateral or repair gas piping. We take it out, the gas work is pressure tested as California code requires, and the permit is closed after the inspection. A replacement water heater gets two seismic straps and a temperature and pressure relief valve piped where it can discharge safely, and you see the full written price before any of it begins.

Santa Ana sits next to Garden Grove, Tustin, Orange, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley and Irvine, 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.