Kent is practically next door to our Federal Way headquarters, and it's one of the cities we work in most. The city splits into three plumbing worlds. East Hill — Panther Lake, Lake Meridian, Meridian, and the neighborhoods off 104th and 132nd — is dominated by 1970s through early-1990s split-levels and ramblers. West Hill and Scenic Hill mix older homes with mid-century stock. And the Kent Valley floor is one of the largest industrial and warehouse districts in the country, with its own commercial plumbing demands.
The East Hill era matters because of one word: polybutylene. Gray poly supply piping was installed in enormous numbers across South King County between roughly 1978 and 1995, and it fails without warning at fittings and along the pipe wall. If your Kent home was built in that window and has never been repiped, a quick look at the water heater connections or under a sink tells us in seconds. We replace polybutylene with PEX in two to three days, water back on every night, and we do more of these repipes in Kent than almost anywhere else.
Down on the valley floor, a high water table and flat grades mean sump pumps, slow-draining laterals, and backflow requirements for commercial properties. Our commercial crews service warehouses, restaurants along Central Avenue and Kent Station, and multi-tenant buildings with the same flat-rate honesty we bring to homes. Water here comes from the City of Kent, Highline Water District, or Soos Creek Water & Sewer depending on your address — all moderately soft, all fine for modern fixtures.
Permits for water heaters, gas lines, and repipes run through the City of Kent's Permit Center, and we pull and manage them for you. With Kent this close, we can often fit same-day appointments for non-emergency work, and emergency calls to East Hill or the valley are typically on site in well under an hour.
Kent neighborhoods we serve
- East Hill
- West Hill
- Scenic Hill
- Panther Lake
- Lake Meridian
- Meridian
- Kent Valley
- Downtown Kent
- Kent Station
- Midway
- Star Lake
- Lake Youngs
- Covington
- Maple Valley
ZIP codes: 98030, 98031, 98032, 98042, 98064