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Cold showers, or a puddle in the garage
Water heater replacement
Tank swap or tankless conversion, with the venting, gas sizing and the county permit all done properly.
Oak Park · Tankless
Tankless water heaters
in Oak Park
Tankless water heaters in Oak Park, ten minutes from the shop in Westlake Village. A tankless heater fires at four or five times the rate of the tank it replaces. That is where the job is. Get the gas and the venting right and it runs for twenty years.
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 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.
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
A conversion starts at the gas meter. A standard tank draws about 40,000 BTU. A whole-house tankless draws 150,000 to 199,000, and the half-inch gas line that fed the old tank very often cannot carry that. So the line gets upsized from the meter, and sometimes the meter itself has to be upgraded, which the gas company does. Then the venting. A condensing unit vents in PVC and needs a condensate drain; a non-condensing unit needs stainless steel vent. The unit needs a power outlet. Cold water in, hot water out, isolation valves on both so it can be serviced.
Sizing is by how many fixtures run at once and by how cold the water comes in. Groundwater here runs around 55 degrees in winter, which is the number that decides the unit, and undersizing is the mistake we see most on cheap installs. A house that wants two showers and a washer at once needs the bigger unit, and a large house with a far bathroom usually wants a recirculation loop as well.
Hard water is the other thing to plan for. The heat exchanger scales up, and a tankless in this valley wants descaling once a year. The isolation valves we fit are what make that a half-hour job. We do that service on units we installed and on ones we did not.
Call if
What you notice,
and what it usually is
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The tank is due and you are tired of replacing tanks
A tankless lasts about twice as long. Conversion is the moment to do it.
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Hot water runs out with a full house
A tankless heats as it goes. Sized right, it does not run out.
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The heater lives in a closet with no room for a bigger tank
A tankless hangs on the wall the size of a carry-on bag.
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A long wait for hot water at the far bathroom
A recirculation loop, with or without a tankless. We do both.
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Your tankless has lost power or runs lukewarm
Scale on the heat exchanger. A descale usually brings it back.
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
Tankless 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.
- Is it really endless hot water?
- Yes, up to the unit's flow rate. Two showers at once on a properly sized unit is fine. Four at once is not, on any unit. We size it for how your house is used.
- Will it cut my gas bill?
- Some. A tank keeps forty gallons hot all day whether you use it or not; a tankless heats only what you draw. The saving is real and it is not what pays for the install. Space, lifespan and never running out are the reasons people do it.
- Can my existing gas line handle it?
- Usually not without changes. That is most of the difference between a cheap quote and a correct one. We size the line from the meter to the unit and tell you what has to change before you commit.
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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.”
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“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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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.
- 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.
- 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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Tankless · 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.