Plumbing help in Seattle

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Seattle's plumbing stock spans more than a century. The pre-war neighborhoods, Ballard, Capitol Hill, the Central District, West Seattle, still run on clay and concrete side sewers laid alongside craftsman bungalows and brick apartment buildings. Post-war ramblers fill the north end. Townhouse infill keeps going up everywhere. And in Seattle the homeowner owns the side sewer all the way out to the main in the street, so a lateral failure under the sidewalk is your problem to fix.

What gets called in around Seattle?

• Sewer scopes and lateral repairs, clay laterals, root intrusion, and pre-sale inspections in the older neighborhoods
• Repipes, galvanized supply lines in pre-1960s homes finally giving out
• Sump pumps and drainage, wet basements through the long rain season, and sewage ejectors in homes plumbed below the street line
• Water heaters across every housing era, plus a steady stream of fixture and drain calls in the city's older housing

Neighborhood pages

Parts of the city with their own plumbing profiles get their own pages:

• West Seattle, the peninsula across the bridge
• Ballard, the pre-war bungalow core
• North Seattle, Fremont through Lake City
• Central Seattle, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, and the close-in stock
• South Seattle, Beacon Hill, Columbia City, and the south end

What part of Seattle is covered?

All of it: Downtown and the close-in neighborhoods, North Seattle to the city line, West Seattle, Rainier Valley, and the waterfront. Tell us your neighborhood in the message and the pro who covers it calls you back.