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Nobody knows how the house is plumbed
Large-house systems
We trace what is installed and write it down before quoting anything. You end up with a record of how your own house is plumbed.
Plumber in Lake Sherwood · Ventura County
Plumber in
Lake Sherwood
Large houses on large lots, mostly behind a gate, plus a scattering of much older places around the lake itself.
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
Why it happens
What Lake Sherwood
is plumbed with
The estates around Sherwood are built at a scale that changes the plumbing rather than just making it bigger. Two or three water heaters, a recirculation loop of real length, filtration and softening, and lines running out to a guest house, the pool equipment, an outdoor kitchen and the irrigation. None of it is unusual on its own. It is all connected, though, and hardly any of it was written down.
The older half of Lake Sherwood is a different matter. There are houses around the water that predate every tract in the Conejo Valley by decades, and the plumbing in them has been added to by a long succession of people with different ideas. Those jobs start with working out what is actually there, which takes longer than assuming.
Streets and pockets we work in: Sherwood Country Club, the lake, the Hidden Valley edge, the older lakeside streets.
Most weeks
What people in
Lake Sherwood call about
02
The far end of the house runs cold
Recirculation & long runs →Getting hot water to the far end of a large house without running a loop all night. Usually a matter of pumps, timers and balancing.
03
Work nobody can account for
Older lakeside houses →Plumbing of mixed vintage that several generations have extended. We work out what is there first, then repair or replace on what we find.
04
An architect or manager needs a scope
Written bids →An itemized scope in writing, which tends to be as useful to a property manager or an architect as it is to the owner.
Gate clearance gets arranged in advance. There are two of us at most, so there is no crew tramping through the house.
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Work in Lake Sherwood
From the invoice book,
names left off
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March 2026
Irrigation leaks, all from high pressure
Several irrigation leaks on one property, every one of them caused by street pressure with nothing regulating it on that side. Installed a shutoff for the irrigation, a house shutoff, a pressure regulator and a relief valve, then repaired the leaks and replaced three sprinkler valves. Two visits.
Pressure regulators →
Real jobs, written up the way they went on the invoice. The customer’s name and street stay off the page.
Worth knowing
Local notes
The practical details that change how a job in Lake Sherwood gets scheduled, permitted and priced.
- Permits
- Ventura County. Lake Sherwood is unincorporated.
- Sewer
- Triunfo Water & Sanitation District.
- Access
- Gated. Clearance arranged before the visit.
- Scale
- Multiple heaters and recirculation are the norm here.
Inside Lake Sherwood
The neighborhoods,
and what is different in each
Google reviews
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.”
★★★★★
“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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Common questions
Things people in Lake Sherwood ask
- Do you go through the gate at Sherwood?
- Yes. We call ahead with the truck and the name so the gate is expecting us. If you have an estate manager, they can set it up with us directly.
- How fast can you get to Lake Sherwood?
- Ten minutes over the hill from Westlake Village, so same day is usually realistic. For planned work on a large house we come out first and walk it.
- How does pricing work?
- You get the price before we start. Repairs are our time plus parts, and remodels, repipes and additions get a written bid. Nobody here works on commission.
- Can you work with my estate manager or architect?
- Yes, and we usually do. The bid is itemized so a manager, an architect and the owner are all reading the same document, and we work to the schedule they set.
- Who pulls the permit in Lake Sherwood?
- We do, through Ventura County, since Lake Sherwood is unincorporated. The county has its own inspection schedule and we plan the job around it.
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By the job
What we do in Lake Sherwood,
job by job
- Leak detection & repair in Lake Sherwood On a Lake Sherwood property the leak that matters is usually the quiet one: a line out to a guest house or the pool equipment, or an irrigation lateral, running for months before a bill gives it away. We isolate the house from every outbuilding and from the irrigation at the meter, then narrow it down. Gate clearance is arranged before we come.
- Water heater repair & replacement in Lake Sherwood Houses around Sherwood run two or three water heaters and a recirculation loop, and when one fails nobody is sure which.
- Tankless water heaters in Lake Sherwood Tankless installs at Lake Sherwood are usually conversions on large houses that already run more than one heater, with a recirculation loop that has to keep working afterward.
- Drain cleaning in Lake Sherwood Drain work at Lake Sherwood is mostly the older lakeside houses, where the plumbing has been added to by a long succession of people and a slow drain can be a vent problem as easily as a clog. We clear it, camera it if it has happened before, and tell you what is down there.
- Copper & PEX repiping in Lake Sherwood A repipe on a large Sherwood house is mostly a matter of sequence: three water heaters, a loop, lines to outbuildings, and a household that needs water every evening.
- Plumbing repairs in Lake Sherwood Lake Sherwood is gated, so we clear the truck with the gate before the visit, and there are two of us at most, which keeps a repair from turning into a crew in your house.
- Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair in Lake Sherwood Sewer lines at Lake Sherwood run to Triunfo Water and Sanitation District, and on lots this size the run from the house out to the main is a long one.
- Gas line installation & repair in Lake Sherwood Lake Sherwood properties run gas the way they run everything else, out to a guest house, the pool equipment and an outdoor kitchen, with a fire pit or a spa heater somewhere along the way. Long runs and several appliances mean the sizing comes off the whole load at the meter, so nothing at the far end starves. If you smell gas, leave and call SoCalGas from outside, and we take it from there. The line is black iron with a shutoff at each appliance, tested under pressure, permitted and inspected through Ventura County. Gate clearance is arranged before we come.
- Water pressure regulators in Lake Sherwood Lake Sherwood properties often have more than one thing running off the main: the house, the irrigation, the pool equipment.
- Slab leak repair in Lake Sherwood Lake Sherwood makes a slab leak harder to spot, because a property here has lines running out to a guest house, the pool equipment and the irrigation, and any one of them can turn the meter and lift a bill the same way. So we isolate the house from the outbuildings and from the irrigation first, then hot from cold, and narrow it to a line. Where it is under concrete, the leak-locating specialist we work with listens through the slab and marks the spot before anything is cut. Then a spot repair at that mark or a reroute overhead. Any permit goes through Ventura County.
Everything else
The rest of what
we do in Lake Sherwood
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Lake Sherwood
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it’s doing
Describe the symptom and you will usually have an answer in two minutes. You get the price before any work starts. Ten minutes, over the hill from the shop. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.