Canoga Park is home for us, and the Valley is where most of our calls start. They come from ranch houses in Winnetka and Chatsworth, from hillside homes above Ventura Boulevard, from condo owners, from landlords with a building of tenants, and from small businesses near Warner Center. Each one reaches a person, not a recording.
What we do first when you call at night
SoCal Emergency Plumbing San Fernando Valley is built for the hours nobody plans for: a braided hose under a vanity bursts, an upstairs toilet floods the ceiling of the room below, sewage backs up into a shower, or a water heater in the garage leaves a puddle on the slab. First we help you shut the water off. In a house that usually means the main valve where the supply pipe enters, or the valve in the meter box near the curb; in an apartment or condo it may be the stop under the fixture or a building valve the manager controls. Then a plumber leaves Canoga Park for your address.
Canoga Park started as Owensmouth in March 1912, at the end of the Pacific Electric line, and joined Los Angeles on February 26, 1917, two years after the City annexed 169.89 square miles of the Valley to bring it aqueduct water. The Valley side of the city now has about 457,900 housing units. The median one went up in the late 1960s, about 69 percent were built before 1980, and the 1950s were the busiest decade, so the plumbing tells the story of the postwar boom. The old Owensmouth core keeps about 250 homes from 1913 to 1939. Ranch houses went up by the thousands after World War II in Reseda, Northridge, Granada Hills and Panorama City, many of them on concrete slabs, the way postwar tracts were often built, which hides the copper under the floor. Hillside homes south of Ventura Boulevard in Encino, Tarzana and Sherman Oaks mostly date from the 1950s through the 1970s, and LADWP wants a pressure regulator wherever static pressure at the house runs above 80 psi. The water itself tested from 6.0 to 8.2 grains per gallon of hardness in 2025 across the three Valley sources, and LADWP disinfects with chloramines, which slowly wear down the rubber lining of braided supply hoses. That is why the plumber reads the pressure and tests the line before any price comes up.
A license and bond on the public record
Our work runs under CSLB #1131308 (C-36 Plumbing). The state board also lists a $25,000 contractor bond on that license, and a single search of the CSLB website shows you both.
A person, not a phone tree
Ring us at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday, early on a Sunday or on Labor Day, and someone able to help comes on the line. You will not be sent through a menu of numbers or asked to leave a message.
Based in Canoga Park
We keep a single location, in Canoga Park, and it handles each call we take, from Sylmar to the Malibu coast. The plumber travels to you, so you never have to go anywhere.
Your home left clean
Drop cloths go down before the tools come out. Old pipe, fittings and packaging ride away with the plumber, and the room looks the way it did, minus the leak.
What you can count on
Plain answers
The plumber explains the failure and its cause the way you would explain it to a neighbor, and does not sell you work your home or building can go without.
The estimate comes in writing
Before a wall is opened or a part is changed, you get the estimate on paper and sign it. The cost is agreed while nothing has been touched yet.
Our work, backed in writing
Repairs and installations both carry our written workmanship warranty. If something we did fails, the plumber returns and puts it right.
The plumbing work we take on
Valley calls follow the age of the houses: copper supply pipe worn thin in a 1950s ranch house in Reseda, scale building up inside a tank heater in Woodland Hills, roots growing into a sewer lateral in Northridge, a seismic gas shutoff valve the City requires before a Granada Hills house can be sold, a hose that chloramines have worn out under a kitchen sink in Chatsworth. Each service below has its own full page that covers the warning signs, the usual causes and how the repair is done.
24/7 Emergency Plumbing
A pipe that bursts, a toilet running over, water dripping through a ceiling, or any leak that cannot hold until morning.
Drain Cleaning & Hydro Jetting
We clear clogs in anything from one bathroom sink to the main sewer line, then run a camera through so you can see the pipe is open along its whole length.
Water Heater Repair & Installation
Repairs, scale flushes and replacements for tank and tankless heaters. California code requires two seismic straps on a new tank, along with a temperature and pressure relief line piped to a safe place, and we fit both.
Sewer Repair & Repiping
Sewer laterals that are cracked, offset or full of roots repaired or replaced, trenchless where the soil and the old line permit it. On the Valley side of Los Angeles the wastewater goes on to the Tillman plant, but the lateral carrying it to the main belongs to the owner, and work on it needs a Bureau of Engineering S-Permit. When the supply pipe is worn through in too many places, the house gets repiped in PEX or new copper.
Leak & Gas Leak Detection
Hidden leaks traced under a slab or inside a wall before anything gets opened. Gas piping repaired, then pressure tested, so that SoCalGas can turn the service back on.
Our service area
Our one location is in Canoga Park, and 24-hour emergency response goes out from there to all 88 cities of Los Angeles County. Seven of them have a page here: Los Angeles (written for its Valley neighborhoods), Hidden Hills, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Malibu and Santa Clarita. San Fernando, Burbank, Glendale and the remaining cities of the county are covered just the same; they simply have no page here.
Check the license yourself
California license #1131308
Search #1131308 on the CSLB site and the whole record opens, naming SoCal Plumbing Co Inc as the holder. Run that search before anyone starts work in your home.
$25,000 contractor bond
Nationwide writes the bond. It is listed with the license in the CSLB lookup, where any homeowner, tenant, landlord or association board can see it.
Permits opened and closed
On the Valley side of Los Angeles the permit authority is LADBS, which treats water heater replacements, fixture replacements, sewer repairs, small gas piping jobs and earthquake valves as Express Permits with no plan check. Hidden Hills, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Malibu and Santa Clarita run their own building departments, and Westlake Village contracts with LA County Public Works. The City also requires a seismic gas shutoff or excess flow valve when a gas meter is altered or replaced, on larger alterations and additions, and before a home is sold. We pull the permit a job requires and close it once the inspection passes.
Written workmanship warranty
All of our repairs and installations carry it. The terms are printed twice, once on the signed estimate and once on the invoice, and work of ours that fails gets redone under them.
Common questions about SoCal Emergency Plumbing San Fernando Valley
License: the CSLB issued #1131308 (C-36 Plumbing) to SoCal Plumbing Co Inc on January 6, 2025, and it is valid through January 31, 2027. The $25,000 bond is with Nationwide, and you can read every detail on the CSLB website.
Area: Canoga Park and the rest of the Valley side of Los Angeles, the six cities with pages from Hidden Hills to Santa Clarita, and all remaining cities of the county. The plumber comes to your address; nothing has to be brought to us.
Cost: set down in a written estimate, and you approve it before work begins.
Who calls: homeowners and renters, condo owners, landlords and property managers, homeowner association boards, restaurant owners and small business tenants. The jobs run from a single leaking angle stop to a repipe of the whole house.
Nights: (747) 249-5650 reaches a person in the small hours exactly as it does at lunchtime, all year. A flooded floor, sewage in a tub or toilet, the smell of gas, a heater gone cold: each gets 24-hour emergency response.
Warranty: the labor carries our written workmanship warranty, whose terms appear on your estimate and again on your invoice. New heaters and fixtures also come with the maker's warranty.
Water spreading or a drain backing up: call us now.
One phone number for the San Fernando Valley and the rest of Los Angeles County. A person answers it around the clock, and the C-36 license and bond behind it are a public CSLB search away.