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No hot water
The thermocouple or gas valve on a gas unit. Usually a repair.
Agoura Hills · Water heaters
Water heater repair & replacement
in Agoura Hills
Water heater repair & replacement in Agoura Hills, seven minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. A tank water heater around here lasts ten to twelve years, and the hard water does not help. When it goes, it goes one of two ways, and one of them is a repair.
Call (805) 330-3111
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Danny picks up when he can, and calls back the same day. You get the price before we start, and nobody here is on commission. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.
Licensed
CSLB #339618
Insured
Bonded and insured
Since 1977
49 years, two generations
On Google
5.0 stars
In Agoura Hills
What this job looks like
in Agoura Hills
Water heater replacements in Agoura Hills go through the City of Agoura Hills for the permit, and most of the heaters sit in a garage that gets hot in summer, which shortens a tank's life. We replace tanks with strapping and an expansion tank, take the old one away, and do tankless conversions where the gas line can be sized for it.
Streets and pockets we work in: Old Agoura, Morrison Ranch, Liberty Canyon, Lake Lindero, Chesebro, Fountainwood.
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The job
How it goes
No hot water on a gas heater is usually the thermocouple, the pilot assembly or the gas valve. Those are repairs, if the tank itself is sound. Water on the garage floor is different. A tank that is leaking from the body has rusted through from the inside, and that heater is finished. We say which you have on the phone if you can tell us what you see, and for certain within a few minutes of arriving.
A replacement is most of a day. We drain and remove the old unit, set the new one, fit new flex connectors and a new gas line connection, strap it to the wall at the top and bottom the way California requires, check the vent for draft and clearance, and fit an expansion tank if the house has a pressure regulator, which most here do. Then we fill it, light it, check for leaks and take the old one away. The permit is pulled in your name and the inspection is booked.
We install 40 and 50 gallon gas units as standard, and larger where the house needs it. If you are weighing a tankless instead, that is a different job with its own page.
Call if
What you notice,
and what it usually is
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Water on the floor around the base
The tank has rusted through. This one is a replacement.
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Hot water runs out fast
Sediment in the tank or a broken dip tube. A flush helps a younger tank. An old one is near the end.
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Rumbling or popping from the tank
Sediment boiling on the bottom. Flush it, and if the tank is over ten years old, start planning the replacement.
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Rusty hot water
The anode rod is used up and the tank is corroding. Replacement is close.
How it goes
Four steps, and you have the price at step three
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You call
Danny picks up when he can, and calls back the same day. Tell him what it is doing and where.
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We look
We come out, find the cause and show you. In plain words, with the part in our hand where there is one.
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You get a price
Before anything starts. Repairs are our time plus parts, and the bigger jobs get a written bid. Nobody here is on commission.
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We do the work
Small repairs are usually done the same visit. Bigger jobs get a start date and a number of days, and we hold to it. Done to code, permitted where it needs it, the house left the way we found it.
Common questions
Water heaters in Agoura Hills: things people ask
- How fast can you get to Agoura Hills?
- Usually the same day. It is seven minutes down the 101 from Westlake Village. Say what it is doing when you call and Danny will tell you when.
- Who pulls the permit in Agoura Hills?
- We do, through the City of Agoura Hills, for water heaters, gas lines, repipes and remodel plumbing. The inspection is part of the price.
- Does a water heater need a permit?
- Yes, in every city and county we work in. It covers the gas connection, the venting and the seismic strapping, and the inspection is part of the price. It matters when you sell the house.
- How long does a replacement take?
- Most of a day. You are without hot water for about half of it.
- Tank or tankless?
- A tank is cheaper to buy and simpler to replace. A tankless costs more to install, because the gas line and the venting usually change, and then gives endless hot water and lasts about twice as long. If your tank sits in a tight closet or you keep running out of hot water, it is worth pricing both. We do both and will say which fits the house.
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What people say
5.0 ★★★★★ 5 reviews on Google
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“Dan is consistent. Professional, on time, only does what is needed, experienced, easy to work with, clean, and smart.”
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“Dan's Plumbing did excellent job for us replacing our broken water pressure regulator. Quick response, good price, great quality of work. Will hire them again.”
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Nearby, and related
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- Slab leaks in Agoura Hills The slab leak we found under an Agoura Hills bedroom closet in November 2023 is the typical one: a pinhole in a one-inch copper line under a seventies house, marked by the locator we work with along with the post-tensioned cables, opened at one spot and replaced. Morrison Ranch and Liberty Canyon are the right age for it, and a second leak on the same line is when a reroute makes more sense than another hole.
- Drain cleaning in Agoura Hills Some Old Agoura parcels are on septic, with no sewer main, so the first useful thing to know when everything drains slowly at once is which side of the tank the problem is on. We clear the line and camera it to the tank, and tell you plainly if the tank is the problem. In the tracts south of the freeway it is the usual grease, hair and roots at the joints.
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- Repiping in Agoura Hills Morrison Ranch and Liberty Canyon houses are at the age where a repipe comes up: original copper in the slab that has leaked more than once.
- Repairs in Agoura Hills Agoura Hills gives us both kinds of small job. In the tracts south of the freeway it is the ordinary list: toilets, faucets, disposals, angle stops, shower valves, and the truck carries those parts, so it is usually one visit. In February 2026 we set three owner-supplied toilets here in a morning, with new wax seals and supply lines, and snaked the kids' shower on the way out. North of the freeway, in Old Agoura, it runs more to hose bibs, stable lines and tack room sinks, and the outdoor fittings that split during a cold week in January. You get the price before we start.
- Tankless in Agoura Hills Tankless conversions in Agoura Hills start at the gas meter. A tank draws about 40,000 BTU and a whole-house tankless wants 150,000 or more, so the line from the meter usually has to be upsized, and the venting changes with the unit. Most heaters here sit in a garage that gets hot in summer, which is hard on a tank. Las Virgenes supplies the water and it is hard, so the heat exchanger scales and wants a descale once a year. The isolation valves we fit keep that to about half an hour. Permit and inspection through the City of Agoura Hills.
- Gas lines in Agoura Hills Gas lines in Agoura Hills are permitted and inspected through the City of Agoura Hills, and every line is tested under pressure before the gas goes back on. If you smell gas, leave the house and call SoCalGas from outside first. The repair is ours after that. Most of the work is new runs: a built-in BBQ or an outdoor kitchen, a fire pit, a pool heater, a range, a dryer. Each is sized by the appliance and the length of the run, which on an Old Agoura lot can be a long way from the meter. Upsizing for a tankless is the other half.
- Pressure regulators in Agoura Hills In Agoura Hills the regulator is the part people notice last.
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Water heaters · Agoura Hills
Tell Danny what
it’s doing
Describe the symptom and you will usually have an answer in two minutes. You get the price before any work starts. Seven minutes from the shop. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.