Plumber in Fountain Valley

Plumbing in Fountain Valley

Fountain Valley faces Costa Mesa across the Santa Ana River, and we are based in Costa Mesa, so help for this city usually comes from next door. When another of our locations is closer to your street, the plumber is sent from that one instead.

The city is flat, and most of it was built out as tract housing in the 1960s and 1970s, nearly all of it on concrete slabs. That puts the copper water lines under the floor, where a pinhole leak can run for weeks before anyone sees a damp carpet or a jump in the water bill.

Census figures show how uniform the housing is: 82 percent of the city's 19,227 homes were built before 1980, the median house dates from 1972, and 68 percent are single-family. With so many homes the same age, the same problems turn up street after street: worn water heaters, shutoff valves that no longer close, and drain lines that have started to crack.

Because most homes here are standalone houses, each one usually has its own sewer lateral out to the street. A backup around Mile Square Regional Park or anywhere else in town tends to belong to one house rather than a whole building, which makes the cause easier to pin down.

Fountain Valley borders Huntington Beach, Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, 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.