Plumber in Costa Mesa

Plumbing in Costa Mesa

We are based in Costa Mesa, so most calls in the city are handled from right here. There is no storefront and no counter to visit: you phone, a person answers day or night, and the plumber comes to you, anywhere from the Santa Ana River on the west edge of town to the streets around South Coast Plaza and Fairview Park.

Costa Mesa has about 44,400 housing units. The US Census puts the median year built at 1972 and counts 68 percent of homes as older than 1980, while only 39 percent are single-family houses. Most people here live in condos, townhomes and apartments, where several units often drain into one shared stack, so a backup in your kitchen can start in a pipe that serves the whole building.

Many houses in the city went up between the 1950s and the 1970s on concrete slabs, with copper water lines running under the floor. A slab leak announces itself as a warm patch on the tile, the hiss of water with every faucet closed, or a bill that climbs for no reason. On the older blocks, mature street trees also push their roots into cast iron and clay sewer laterals.

Most of Costa Mesa buys its water from Mesa Water District, and the public sewer mains belong to the Costa Mesa Sanitary District. The private lateral between your house and that main is yours to maintain, which is why we look inside it with a camera before recommending a repair. Toward the Westside and Mesa del Mar, salt air also wears through exposed copper and hose bibs sooner than it does inland.

Costa Mesa borders Santa Ana, Irvine, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley, and we cover every one of them, so help is sent from whichever of our locations is closest. Someone answers the phone at any hour, we look inside the line before anything is cut open, and the price is written down before the work begins.