Our work
Every photo here is a job we did.
No stock libraries, no supplier catalogue shots, no renders. These are our own crews' photographs from homes across San Mateo County, Santa Clara County and the South Bay.
CSLB licensed
Lic. 1148295 · C-36 Plumbing
Warranty
1-year warranty on all work
Customer rating
5.0 / 5 · 1 review
Experience
16 years in the trade
Choosing a contractor mostly comes down to one question you can't easily answer from a website: do these people actually do good work? Reviews help. Photographs of the work itself help more, because the details are hard to fake and easy to check.
So this page is deliberately unglamorous. You'll see isolation valves fitted so a system can be serviced later without shutting off the whole house. You'll see seismic valves mounted level and within reach, rather than tucked behind something where nobody could reset them. You'll see copper runs made up and pressure-tested before a wall gets closed. That's the part of the job that decides whether you call us again in five years, and it's the part most photographs leave out.
16 years of this, across the Peninsula and South Bay. If you want to know whether we've handled something like your situation, the odds are good — and if we haven't, we'll tell you that too.
Water heaters
Tankless with a serviceable isolation manifold
Note the pair of valves under the unit. Tankless heaters need descaling every few years, and without those you have to drain the house to do it — so fitting them is the difference between a 40-minute service and half a day.
Water Heater Repair & Replacement →
Water heaters
Water heater and furnace handled in one visit
The tank had failed and the copper next to the furnace was corroding where the two met. Because both trades are in-house we replaced the tank, reworked the supply piping and checked the furnace on the same visit instead of booking two contractors around each other.
Water Heater Repair & Replacement →
Water treatment
Cabinet softener plumbed with a bypass
Hard water was scaling fixtures and collecting in the bottom of the water heater. The bypass loop matters more than the unit does — it means the softener can be serviced, or taken out of circuit entirely, without shutting water off to the house.
Water Softeners, Filtration & Drinking Water →
Water treatment
Treatment run brought in through the crawlspace
Not every treatment install is a tidy garage corner. Reaching the incoming main here meant working the run through the crawlspace, which is slower but keeps the equipment somewhere the owner can actually get to it.
Water Softeners, Filtration & Drinking Water →
Water treatment
Manifold and shutoffs made up
The valve work is the part that decides whether the next person to service this system has an easy afternoon or a bad one. Everything here can be isolated individually.
Water Softeners, Filtration & Drinking Water →
Water treatment
Whole-house carbon filtration
The complaint was a chlorine taste at every tap. Most Bay Area supply is disinfected with chloramine, and a carbon system on the incoming main deals with the taste everywhere rather than one filter at a time.
Water Softeners, Filtration & Drinking Water →
Water treatment
Multi-stage housings with pressure gauges
The gauges are deliberate. A pressure drop across the housings tells you the cartridges are loading up, so changes happen on evidence instead of on a guess or a calendar reminder.
Water Softeners, Filtration & Drinking Water →
Gas safety
Seismic shut-off valve at the meter
This closes the gas automatically when shaking passes its threshold, in the minutes after a quake when nobody is going to be outside turning the meter off by hand. It is mounted level and within arm's reach — get either wrong and it either fails to actuate or can't be reset.
Seismic Gas Shut-Off Valves →
Repipe & leaks
Copper risers in the open wall cavity
The original galvanized had produced its third pinhole leak in under two years. Galvanized corrodes from the inside out, so the first failure is never the last — repiping the run ends the cycle instead of resetting it.
Leak Detection & Pipe Repair →
Repipe & leaks
Supply rerouted around existing framing
Framing rarely sits where the drawing assumes. Rerouting around it properly, rather than notching structure to keep the run straight, is the boring decision that keeps an inspector happy.
Leak Detection & Pipe Repair →
Fixtures & remodels
Hose bib replaced with a quarter-turn valve
The old rubber-washer bib dripped and never quite shut off, and tightening it harder only wore the seat faster. A quarter-turn ball valve has far less to fail and actually closes fully.
Outdoor Plumbing →
Fixtures & remodels
Pedestal basin with new shutoffs
Pedestal basins leave the pipework on show, so the connections have to be neat as well as sound. New angle stops went in at the same time — the old ones were the original seized valves, which is a bad thing to discover during a leak.
Faucet & Fixture Repair →
Fixtures & remodels
Integrated smart toilet installed
Integrated units need a supply and power where the old fixture had neither. The rough-in and supply were adjusted to suit before the unit was set and sealed.
Toilet Repair & Installation →
Fixtures & remodels
Fixture set on a clean flange
Most toilets that leak at the base are not leaking from the bowl — the flange underneath has failed or sits below the finished floor. We lift the fixture and check what it is sitting on rather than replacing the seal and hoping.
Toilet Repair & Installation →
Fixtures & remodels
Rough-in through to finished fixture
Same job at both ends: the rough-in set and checked, then the finished fixture. The new unit's footprint did not match the old one, so the rough-in was adjusted rather than forcing the fixture to fit.
Toilet Repair & Installation →
Fixtures & remodels
Tub set with waste and overflow made up
Tested full and drained before any tile went near it. A tub waste that weeps is trivial to fix at this stage and expensive once it is behind a tiled surround.
Remodels & New Construction →
Fixtures & remodels
Vanity replacement with stone top
The visible half is the cabinet and the stone. The half that matters is behind it — supply and drain remade to suit the new basin position instead of stretching the old connections to reach.
Remodels & New Construction →Nothing in that category yet.
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