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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 · Repiping
Copper & PEX repiping
in Oak Park
Copper & PEX repiping in Oak Park, ten minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. A repipe replaces every water line in the house. It is the answer when the pipe itself is failing, and the wrong answer for one leak. We tell you which you have.
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
The earliest Oak Park phases, late seventies and eighties, are reaching the point where original copper starts to pinhole. A repipe runs new lines overhead in copper or PEX with no concrete opened, water off a few hours at a time, and a Ventura County permit and inspection. The nineties phases almost never need one yet.
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
Two kinds of house need it. The older ones with galvanized steel, which rusts closed from the inside over decades, so the pressure falls slowly and the water runs brown after the house has stood overnight. And the far more common one here: sixties and seventies copper that has started to pinhole. One pinhole is a repair. Three in two years is a pattern, and each repair is buying a few months.
Copper or PEX. Copper is what most of these houses have, it is rigid, and it is joined with press fittings now instead of solder, which is faster and cleaner in a finished house. PEX is flexible tubing run from a manifold, so each fixture has its own line, it pulls through walls with fewer openings, and it does not pinhole. Both are permitted, both are inspected, and both come with a written scope that lists every line. We say which we would put in your house, and why.
A typical house is two to four days. We work it in stages so the water is off for a few hours at a time and back on every evening. Openings in the drywall are kept small and marked, and every one is listed on the bid so there is no surprise about what needs patching afterward. You stay in the house.
Call if
What you notice,
and what it usually is
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Brown water first thing in the morning
Galvanized pipe rusting inside. The pipe is closing up.
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Pressure that has slowly dropped over years
Same. The bore of the pipe is getting smaller.
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The third pinhole leak in a couple of years
The copper is at the end of its life. Each repair is buying a few months.
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Blue-green stains at fixtures
Copper dissolving into the water, usually from high pressure and age.
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Buying or selling a house with original pipe
A repipe with a permit and an inspection card is worth more than the same house without one.
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
Repiping 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.
- Copper or PEX?
- Both are good. Copper is what the house was built with and what a buyer expects to see. PEX is quicker, needs fewer openings and never pinholes. In a slab house where the old lines are in the concrete, either one gets rerouted overhead. We bid whichever fits the house, and both if you want to compare.
- How long is the water off?
- A few hours at a time, and on every evening. We sequence the work so the house keeps running.
- Do I need to move out?
- No. It is noisy for a few days and there are openings in some walls, and that is the extent of it.
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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.
- 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.
- 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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Repiping · Oak Park
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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.