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A weep under the sink or behind the toilet
Angle stops & supply lines
A fifteen minute job, and the cheapest work on this page. They usually give some warning before they let go, which is worth acting on.
Oak Park · Drain cleaning
Drain cleaning
in Oak Park
Drain cleaning in Oak Park, ten minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. A slow drain is a small job and a backed-up main is an urgent one. Both get cleared the same day where we can, and both come with a straight answer about whether it will happen again.
Call (805) 330-3111
Request a visit
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 Oak Park
What this job looks like
in Oak Park
Oak Park drains are the usual valley mix: grease in the kitchen line, hair in the tubs, and on the older phases a main line that roots find at the joints. We clear it from the cleanout, and if it has backed up before we camera it so you know whether it is the clog or the pipe.
Streets and pockets we work in: the Kanan tracts, Lindero Canyon, the streets off Oak Hills Drive, Sutton Valley, the newer tracts up Bowfield.
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The job
How it goes
We clear drains with a cable machine sized to the line. A small machine for sinks, tubs and showers, and a drum machine with a cutting head for the main line out to the street. Where the house has a cleanout we run from there, so nothing goes through your toilet or across your floor. After the line is clear we run water for a while and watch it, because a drain that only half cleared will be back in a month.
Grease is the usual reason for a kitchen line and hair for a tub. The main line is different. Roots find the joints in old clay pipe, cast iron scales up on the inside, and a section can settle into a low spot that holds water. If your main has backed up more than once in a year, cabling it again only resets the clock. We put a camera down the line and show you what is there, and then you decide.
Hydro jetting is water at high pressure through a nozzle that scours the inside of the pipe. It is the right tool for grease, scale and root hair, and the wrong tool for a pipe that is already broken, which is why we camera an older line before we jet it.
Call if
What you notice,
and what it usually is
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The kitchen sink drains slowly
Grease built up on the pipe wall. Cabled, and if it is years of it, jetted.
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The tub or shower stands in water
Hair and soap at the trap or just past it. A short job.
03
The toilet gurgles when the washer drains
The main line. Everything shares it, and it is partly blocked.
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Water comes up in the shower or a floor drain
The main is blocked. Stop running water and call. This is the one to move on today.
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It backs up every few months
Roots or a broken section. A camera tells you which, and what it will take to stop it.
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
Drain cleaning in Oak Park: things people ask
- How fast can you get to Oak Park?
- Usually the same day. Ten minutes up Kanan or Lindero Canyon from Westlake Village. Say what it is doing when you call.
- Who issues permits in Oak Park?
- Ventura County, because Oak Park has no city government. The county has its own schedule for inspections and we build the job around it, so the date we give you is one we can keep.
- Should I try a chemical drain cleaner first?
- No. On a full blockage it sits in the pipe on top of the clog, and whoever opens the trap next gets it on their hands. It also eats older pipe. Hot water and a plunger are fine to try. After that, call.
- Why does my main line keep backing up?
- Because clearing it removes the blockage and leaves the cause. Roots grow back, a low spot refills, a crack keeps catching paper. A camera inspection shows which one you have.
- Do you do hydro jetting?
- Yes, for grease, scale and roots in a pipe that is still sound. On an older line we camera it first, because jetting a broken pipe makes it worse.
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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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Nearby, and related
More in Oak Park,
and this job elsewhere
- Plumber in Oak Park The whole town: what the houses are plumbed with, what people call about, the neighborhoods.
- Leak detection in Oak Park Oak Park is slab on grade throughout, built in phases from the seventies to the nineties, so a leak here is copper under the floor in the older phases and a failed regulator or an irrigation line in the newer ones. We isolate the house from the irrigation and hot from cold at the meter before anything else, and most leaks are narrowed to one line in that first hour.
- Water heaters in Oak Park A water heater replacement in Oak Park is permitted through Ventura County, since Oak Park has no city hall, and the county has its own inspection schedule, and we build the job around it so the date we give you holds. Tank replacements with strapping and an expansion tank, or a tankless conversion where the gas line allows, and the old unit goes with us.
- Repiping in Oak Park The earliest Oak Park phases, late seventies and eighties, are reaching the point where original copper starts to pinhole.
- Pressure regulators in Oak Park If you are replacing the same fixture twice in Oak Park, the regulator is usually why.
- Repairs in Oak Park Oak Park is unincorporated, so the small work that needs a permit goes through Ventura County instead of a city hall.
- Tankless in Oak Park Oak Park has no city hall, so a tankless conversion here is permitted and inspected by Ventura County, and the county keeps its own inspection schedule, which we plan the job around. The rest is the gas and the venting. A tank draws about 40,000 BTU and a whole-house tankless wants 150,000 or more, so the line gets upsized from the meter, and the vent and the condensate drain are run for the unit. Isolation valves go on both sides so the yearly descale the hard water calls for is a short visit.
- Sewer camera & repair in Oak Park Oak Park sewers run to Triunfo Water and Sanitation District, and the laterals from the house out to the main belong to the house.
- Gas lines in Oak Park Gas work in Oak Park is permitted through Ventura County, since there is no city building department here, and the inspector checks the pressure test before the line goes back into service. New runs are most of it: a BBQ or outdoor kitchen, a fire pit, a pool heater, a range, a dryer, each sized by its BTU rating and the length of the run, in black iron with a shutoff at the appliance. The other common one is upsizing from the meter for a tankless heater, which the older tracts here almost always need. If you smell gas, leave the house and call SoCalGas first.
- Slab leaks in Oak Park Oak Park is slab on grade throughout, built in phases from the seventies into the nineties, so the copper water lines run in or under the floor.
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Drain cleaning · Oak Park
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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 from the shop. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.