11015 Airport Road Everett, WA 98204
11015 Airport Road Everett, WA 98204
Local plumbing services in Edmonds, WA for the owner-side pipes the utility won’t touch.
Here’s something most people don’t learn until a line breaks. A home here gets water from one of two places. The city buys its water from Alderwood Water & Wastewater District, which gets it from Everett’s Spada Reservoir. Olympic View Water & Sewer District serves parts of town plus Woodway and Esperance, and about 60 percent of its water comes from Seattle’s South Fork Tolt River watershed, with the rest from Deer Creek.
Different utility, different bill, different phone number. Same rule, though: past the property line, the pipe is yours. The city’s code says connections inside the premises are made by the owner “and at his expense.” That’s the part we fix.
So when you’re comparing plumbers, ask whether they know which utility you’re on and who inspects the work. It changes who you phone first, what gets permitted, and what a repair actually costs you.
Trusted plumbers don’t guess at that. Our plumbing technicians look at the address, the meter and the cleanout before they quote a single repair, because Edmonds plumbing work lives or dies on those details.
Not sure which side of the line the problem is on? Ring us first. We’ll find the leak or the blockage and tell you straight whether it’s yours or the utility’s — before anyone digs.
Danika started in 2009 and Frank Gaborik took the company over in 2016. We’re a licensed, bonded plumbing company out of Airport Road in Everett, and this city sits in the south Snohomish County corridor we cover — Firdale, Five Corners, Perrinville and the rest.
And because we’re plumbing and electrical under one roof, a heat pump swap doesn’t need two companies and two schedules. One crew, one invoice.
Our plumbing services cover the whole house: drain cleaning, fixture and faucet repairs, tank installation, sewer line work and the small leaks nobody else wants to chase. Residential first, with some light commercial plumbing along Highway 99.
Most service calls in Edmonds fall into a handful of buckets: a slow drain, a tired water heater, a leak nobody can find, or a sewer line that roots finally won. We handle all of them, and we tell you up front which repairs can wait and which can’t.
A side sewer is the pipe from your house to the public main. When it cracks, sags or fills with roots, it’s a homeowner problem — and in this city it’s a permitted one. The city’s side sewer handout says a permit is needed for a new install or a repair of an existing service, and only a contractor who is currently licensed and bonded by the State of Washington can pull it.
We had a job in the kind of older rambler we see all the time: slow drains every fall, a camera run that showed roots at a joint about halfway to the street. Not a dramatic fix. But it still went through the city process, start to finish.
Want to check your own line before you call? Find the cleanout (often a capped pipe near the foundation or at the property line), run a couple of sinks and a tub at once, and watch the lowest drain in the home. If it gurgles or backs up, the problem is usually downstream of the house, not in one fixture.
Nothing gets backfilled until the city’s Engineering Inspector has looked at it. That’s the rule, and honestly it protects you. Sewer services like this aren’t cheap, so it pays to get the diagnosis right. A proper sewer repair should fix the break the camera found — not the whole yard. Our main sewer line repair page covers trenchless options and what a camera report looks like.
The city’s water division looks after the service pipe from the main to the property line. After that, it’s you. A pinhole in the yard line, a sudden drop in pressure upstairs, a water bill that makes no sense — those land on the homeowner.
Olympic View customers get one more wrinkle. The district offers a leak adjustment, but you still pay the wholesale rate on the water that ran out. So a slow leak costs money even when the adjustment goes through. Water damage inside a wall costs more.
Yard line replacement: we trace where the line runs, replace it to code, and reconnect at the meter side the right way.
A two-minute leak test you can do at home: turn off every tap, toilet and appliance, then look at the meter. If the low-flow dial is still turning, water is escaping somewhere between the meter and your fixtures. Shut the main valve at the house. Dial stops? The leak is inside. Still turning? It’s the yard line.
Want the long version? Our repiping guide walks through PEX vs copper and what a repipe day looks like.
If your electricity comes from Snohomish County PUD, the utility offers a rebate of up to $1,000 on a qualifying heat pump model — when it replaces an existing tank. A few strings attached: qualified models only, one rebate per account every five years, and the paperwork goes in within 90 days of the invoice.
We get this call a lot. The old tank has started rumbling, and the homeowner wants to know if a heat pump model is worth it. Sometimes yes. Sometimes the space in the garage or closet just won’t work, and we’ll say so.
Water heaters fail in two ways: slowly (less hot water, more noise) or all at once (a puddle on the floor). The slow kind gives you time to plan a replacement service. The other kind is an urgent repair or swap.
What we check on every replacement: the gas or electrical supply, venting, the relief valve and its discharge line, the shutoff, and whether a drain pan makes sense where the tank sits. A heater in a finished closet over carpet is a different risk than one on a garage slab.
The water here is soft, too. Alderwood’s report lists total hardness at 10.2–15.8 ppm, averaging 12.5, for the Spada supply city customers get. So you probably don’t need a softener to protect new heaters. See our water heater service for brands and sizing.
The city watches Lake Ballinger closely. It posts live lake levels with yellow, orange and red alerts, and the red line is tied to the lowest finished floor elevation nearby. When the lake climbs, sandbags go out from the Public Works yard on 210th St SW.
Up north, the city has a mapped earth subsidence and landslide hazard area, where bigger projects can need a geotechnical report. Water management around a house there isn’t cosmetic.
Test yours before the rainy season: pour a bucket of water into the pit and watch. The float should rise, the pump should kick on, and the water should leave the pit in seconds, not minutes. If it hums and does nothing, it’s time for a repair or a new pump. Older homes near the lake tend to lean on these pumps harder than newer builds.
We’ve pulled more than one dead sump pump out of a crawlspace the week after a big storm. The float stuck. Five-minute check, if anyone had looked. Our sump pump service and French drain installs have the details.
A backflow assembly keeps water from your sprinkler system, boiler or fire line from being pulled back into the drinking water. City code says that when the public works director requires one, the customer installs it and keeps it maintained.
Washington’s drinking water rules then set the schedule: test it when it’s installed, repaired, reinstalled or moved — and every year after that, by a certified Backflow Assembly Tester.
Most failures we see come down to worn check valves or debris in the relief valve. It’s a repair job, usually, not a full replacement — but only a proper test tells you which.
People forget about these until the utility letter shows up. Don’t wait for the letter. And if a failed test turns into a leak under the lawn, we can trace that too — here’s how we handle leak detection.
Water coming through the ceiling doesn’t wait for Monday. We’re on call 24 hours a day for emergency plumbing, and that includes Edmonds.
A burst supply line under a sink dumps a lot of water fast, so knowing where your home’s main shutoff is matters more than anything else on this page. Find it this week. Tag it.
Emergency plumbing repairs usually start with stopping the water, then finding where it came from. Our plumbers carry parts for common supply line, valve and drain failures, so plenty of emergency service calls end with the repair done on the spot.
While you wait: shut off the main (usually where the line enters the house, or at the meter box), kill power to any wet area, and stop running water if the sewer’s backing up. Then pick up the phone. More on our 24/7 emergency plumbing page.
We work all over Edmonds — the waterfront and bluff houses, the Highway 99 corridor, and the streets around Yost Park and the Edmonds Marsh.
Next door, we also look after plumbing in Lynnwood and Shoreline houses, and our shop is in Everett. See the full list of cities we serve.
It depends on your address. The City of Edmonds serves much of the city with water bought from Alderwood Water & Wastewater District (Everett’s Spada Reservoir supply). Olympic View Water & Sewer District serves parts of Edmonds, Woodway and Esperance. Your water bill shows which one you have.
Yes. The City of Edmonds requires a side sewer permit for new installs and repairs. The contractor must be licensed and bonded in Washington, the work needs a water or air test, and the Engineering Inspector has to approve it before backfill.
The city handles the service pipe from the main to the property line. Connections inside the property are made and paid for by the owner, under Edmonds city code.
For city customers on the Spada supply, Alderwood’s water quality report lists total hardness of 10.2 to 15.8 ppm, averaging 12.5. That’s low, so most houses don’t need a softener. Olympic View’s report doesn’t list hardness.
Washington rules require a test at installation, after any repair or move, and every year after that, done by a certified Backflow Assembly Tester.
Snohomish County PUD electric customers can get up to $1,000 for a qualifying heat pump water heater that replaces an existing water heater, applied for within 90 days of the invoice.
Side sewer, yard line, water heater or a wet crawlspace — tell us what you’re seeing, and we’ll tell you what it probably is and what it takes to fix. You get an upfront cost estimate before any work starts.
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