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The meter turns with everything shut off
Slab leaks
We find it before any floor comes up, then talk through repairing the spot or rerouting the line.
Oak Park · Leak detection
Leak detection & repair
in Oak Park
Leak detection & repair in Oak Park, ten minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. A leak you can see is the easy kind. The ones that show up as a water bill, a warm floor or a stain that keeps coming back take finding, and finding it properly is most of the job.
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 Oak Park
What this job looks like
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.
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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Buying the same fixture twice
Pressure regulators
If you are replacing the same fixture more than once, high pressure is usually the reason. We check it while we are there anyway.
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The job
How it goes
We start at the meter. With everything in the house off, a meter that still turns tells us the leak is on the supply side. From there we isolate: hot from cold, inside from irrigation, one branch from another, with the gauge on each. That narrows it to a line, and on most leaks that is enough to find it. When the leak is under a slab we bring in the leak-locating specialist we have worked with for years, who listens for it through the concrete and marks the spot, and the post-tensioned cables if the slab has them, before anyone cuts.
What we find, in this valley, is mostly the same few things. Pinholes in copper that has been in the ground or the slab for fifty years. Slab leaks, which have their own page. Shower pans that have failed and let water into the wall below. A toilet seal. Irrigation lines, which are on the same meter and very often the answer when the bill jumps in summer.
You get the leak located and marked, a plain explanation of what it is, and a price for the repair. Where the pipe is reachable the repair is usually done the same visit. Where it is under concrete or behind tile, the price is in writing before anything is opened.
Call if
What you notice,
and what it usually is
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The water bill jumped for no reason
A leak somewhere on the supply side. The meter test finds which side in ten minutes.
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The meter turns with everything off
Same. A leak under pressure, somewhere between the meter and a fixture.
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A warm spot on the floor
A hot water line leaking under the slab.
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A ceiling stain under a bathroom
A shower pan, a toilet seal, or a drain joint. Different repairs, so worth finding before the ceiling is opened.
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The sound of water running when nothing is on
A leak in a wall or under the floor. This is the one we listen for.
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
Leak detection 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.
- Will you have to open walls or floors to find it?
- To find it, no. Locating is done from the outside with the meter and gauges, and under a slab with a specialist locator who marks the spot. The repair may need one opening, and it is marked before anything is cut.
- Could it be the irrigation?
- Often. Sprinkler lines run off the same meter, and a broken lateral or a valve that will not close fully looks exactly like a house leak on the bill. We isolate the irrigation first for that reason.
- Does insurance cover this?
- Policies vary. Most cover sudden damage and the access work to reach the leak, and do not cover the pipe itself. We document what we find, with photographs and the video where there is one, so the claim has what it needs.
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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.
- 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.
- Drain cleaning 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.
- 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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Leak detection · Oak Park
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. Ten minutes from the shop. Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm.