Seattle's housing stock spans 120 years, and each era plumbs differently. The 1900–1930 bungalows and box houses of Ballard, Wallingford, Green Lake, Capitol Hill, and Queen Anne were built with galvanized supply lines that are long past their design life and cast-iron drains that crack and scale. Many of these homes have had one or two partial repipes over the decades, leaving a patchwork of copper, steel, and PEX behind the walls. We map the whole system before quoting, so a repipe fixes the house rather than one wall of it.
The single most expensive surprise in Seattle plumbing is the side sewer. Homeowners own the line from the house to the city main, and thousands of Seattle homes still run on original clay or concrete laterals — often 80 to 100 years old, cracked by settling and choked by roots from the city's mature street trees. A camera inspection costs a few hundred dollars and answers the question definitively. When repair is needed, we handle the Seattle DCI side sewer permit and offer trenchless options that spare your landscaping and the sidewalk.
Newer Seattle is its own specialty. The townhomes of Beacon Hill, Columbia City, Delridge, and Northgate built since the late 1990s typically run tankless water heaters in tight mechanical closets, PEX manifolds, and shared water services — efficient when maintained, finicky when not. Descaling tankless units, correcting pressure issues on hillside lots, and diagnosing recirculation problems are everyday Seattle work for our crews.
Seattle Public Utilities water is soft, which protects fixtures but doesn't stop corrosion in old steel pipe. We serve every neighborhood from Lake City and Wedgwood to West Seattle, Georgetown, and South Park, with parking-savvy crews who know how to stage a job on a narrow Fremont street. Response from Federal Way is typically 30 to 40 minutes outside rush hour, and emergency calls are dispatched around the clock.
Seattle neighborhoods we serve
- Ballard
- Fremont
- Wallingford
- Green Lake
- Capitol Hill
- Queen Anne
- Magnolia
- West Seattle
- Beacon Hill
- Columbia City
- Rainier Valley
- Mount Baker
- Georgetown
- South Park
- Delridge
- Northgate
- Lake City
- Wedgwood
- Ravenna
- Madrona
- Leschi
ZIP codes: 98101, 98102, 98103, 98104, 98105, 98106, 98107, 98108, 98109, 98112, 98115, 98116, 98117, 98118, 98119, 98122, 98125, 98126, 98133, 98136, 98144, 98199