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The main backs up every few months
Roots or a break the cable keeps opening and the pipe keeps closing.
Oak Park · Sewer camera & repair
Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair
in Oak Park
Sewer camera inspection & sewer repair in Oak Park, ten minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. Most of the sewer lines in the Conejo Valley went in between 1965 and 1985. A camera is how you find out what yours looks like without digging up the yard to see.
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 sewers run to Triunfo Water and Sanitation District, and the laterals from the house out to the main belong to the house. The camera goes in at the cleanout and runs the length of the line while you watch it, and the transmitter on the head marks the fault and its depth on the surface, so a hole goes in the right place the first time. In the earliest phases, late seventies and eighties, what it usually finds is roots at a joint or a section that has settled. A house with no cleanout gets one. Any digging or replacement is permitted through Ventura County.
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
The camera goes in through a cleanout and runs the length of the line to the street. You watch it on the screen with us. It shows roots at a joint, a section that has settled and holds water, a crack, an offset where two pipes no longer meet, and the scale inside old cast iron. A transmitter on the camera head lets us mark the exact spot on the surface, and the depth, so if something has to be dug up the hole goes in the right place the first time.
Three times it is worth doing. When a main line has backed up more than once. Before you buy a house, because a sewer replacement is the biggest surprise a home inspection misses. And before a remodel adds a bathroom to a line that may not be up to it.
The repair depends on what the camera finds. One bad joint is a spot repair, a hole the size of a table. A house with no cleanout gets one, so the next clearing does not go through a toilet. A line that is failing along its length gets replaced. In Thousand Oaks the oak tree ordinance decides where a trench can go, and it is better to know that before the machine is on the lawn.
Call if
What you notice,
and what it usually is
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A wet or sunken patch in the lawn
A break underground. We locate it from the surface before digging.
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Sewer smell in the yard or a bathroom
A cracked line or a dry trap. The camera settles which.
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You are buying a house built before 1990
The line is thirty to sixty years old. Look before you close.
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Adding a bathroom
The line has to carry it. A camera and a look at the slope answers that.
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
Sewer camera & repair 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.
- Do I get the video?
- Yes. You watch it with us and we send you the recording. It is useful for a buyer, a seller, an insurer or the next plumber.
- What is a cleanout, and why does my house not have one?
- A capped pipe outside, usually near the foundation, that gives direct access to the sewer line. Many houses from the sixties and seventies were built without one. Adding one is a half-day job and makes every future clearing quicker and cleaner.
- Can the line be fixed without digging up the yard?
- Sometimes a single bad section can be repaired through one small hole. A line that has failed along its length is replaced, and that means a trench. We tell you which you have from the video, and price it before anything is dug.
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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
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Sewer camera & repair · 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.