Berkeley homes are old, well loved, and hard on plumbing. Brown Shingles and Craftsman bungalows from the early 1900s, hillside lots with long pipe runs, and street trees that have had a century to find your sewer lateral. We do drain cleaning, sewer work, and repiping across the whole city, flats to hills.
Roots are the usual suspect
If your drains back up every rainy season and clear for a while after snaking, roots are getting in through joints in an old clay lateral. Snaking buys months. A camera inspection tells you whether you need a spot repair or a full replacement.
Repiping century-old homes
Galvanized supply lines from the 1920s are often down to a pencil-width opening inside. If your pressure drops when someone else turns on a tap, that is why. We repipe in copper or PEX, phased so the house stays livable.
Careful work in finished spaces
Plenty of these homes have original woodwork and plaster worth protecting. We plan access before we open anything.
Sewer lateral compliance in Berkeley
Berkeley runs its own sewer lateral ordinance rather than the regional program, and requires a Sewer Lateral Certificate of Compliance before close of escrow on a sale or transfer. We handle the camera inspection, any repair, the test, and the certificate.
What we do in Berkeley
Free estimates in Berkeley. Straight answers.
Talk to a plumber, not a call center. $99 drain cleaning special with an existing cleanout.
Call (510) 867-0756