Plumber in Santa Ana

Plumbing in Santa Ana

Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange County, and its southern edge meets Costa Mesa, where we are based. Most calls here are covered from Costa Mesa next door; when one of our other locations sits closer to your address, the plumber is sent from there.

The oldest plumbing in the city is in its prewar neighborhoods. Floral Park, French Park, Washington Square and Wilshire Square still have houses with galvanized supply pipe and cast iron or clay drains, on streets lined with big old trees whose roots reach the sewer laterals. On those blocks we look at the pipe first and talk through repair or replacement once we know what is down there.

It is also a large, dense city: 83,701 housing units, a median year built of 1969, and 74 percent of homes older than 1980. Just 44 percent are single-family houses. Duplexes and apartment buildings make up much of the rest, and in those a clog or a leak in one unit can reach the people next door through a line they share.

Gas piping in the older parts of town is often as old as the house it feeds. When a line leaks or the gas company shuts the service off, we repair the bad section, pressure test it as California code requires, and leave it ready for the utility to turn the gas back on.

Santa Ana borders Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Orange, Tustin, Irvine and North Tustin, 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.