Small Plumbing Repairs in Santa Rosa

Small now is cheaper than large later

Plumbing is the one area where putting a job off has a running cost. A dripping tap wastes water every hour of every day. A toilet that runs intermittently can quietly get through a great deal of it before anyone notices on a bill.

There is a second reason not to wait. A slow leak under a sink or behind a toilet is doing something to the cabinet base or the subfloor the whole time, and by the time it is visible you are no longer dealing with a plumbing job — you are dealing with a carpentry one as well. Gary happens to do both, but it is a considerably better outcome to catch it as the first.

Small plumbing jobs Gary takes

• Dripping and leaking taps
• Running or slow-filling toilets
• Toilet flappers, fill valves and seats
• Shut-off valves that no longer shut off
• Tap and showerhead replacement
• Sink and basin fixture swaps
• Traps, pop-ups and slow drains at the fixture

Where the line is

This is fixture-level work — the tap, the toilet, the valve, the trap under the sink. It is not repiping, not water heaters, not main lines, not sewer work, and not anything behind a wall.

If what looks like a dripping tap turns out to be a supply problem inside the wall, Gary will say so rather than keep going. A job that needs a licensed plumbing contractor is better identified in the first ten minutes than in the third hour.