Sacramento plumbers who pick up at 2 a.m.

Who we are

A plumbing company built around Sacramento houses

Sacramento's homes cover a full century of plumbing. A 1925 Curtis Park bungalow still has galvanized pipe in the walls and a clay sewer line under the street trees. A 1965 ranch house in Carmichael has copper under the slab and a long lateral across a big lot. A 2004 home in North Natomas is on its second water heater and its first slab leak. Each one fails in its own way.

John's Plumbing was set up to work on all of them. Our plumbers carry parts for every era of pipe, our trucks carry cable machines and cameras, and our office staff know the difference between a call that can wait until morning and one that cannot. We work from an office in North Sacramento, close to Interstate 80, and from a second office in Garden Valley that covers the foothills.

What you can expect from us is simple: a person answers, we tell you how to stop the damage, we show up when we say, and you see the price before we touch anything. When a repair is not worth doing, we say so.

Local know-how

What makes plumbing in Sacramento different

Trees and old sewer lines

Sacramento's tree canopy is one of the largest of any American city. In neighborhoods built before 1970, those roots find the joints in clay and Orangeburg sewer laterals. Read more in tree roots and sewer lines.

Clay soil under slabs

Much of the valley floor is clay that swells in the wet season and shrinks in summer. That movement wears on copper under concrete slabs, which is why slab leaks are so common here.

Water that changes by address

River water tends to be soft, while groundwater is harder. Homes in groundwater-fed areas see more scale in heaters and fixtures. See hard water in the suburbs.

Hot garages and cold foothills

Most valley water heaters live in garages that bake in July, while foothill homes near our Garden Valley office deal with freezing nights in winter. We plan installs for both.