City of Angels Plumbing is a plumbing service for homes and small businesses in the City of Los Angeles. You describe the job, we arrange for a local plumber to visit, and you get a written quote before anything is touched. This page explains what the service is, how a job runs, which rules the work follows and what you will not find here.
We also publish the guides on this site. They give price ranges, methods and the Los Angeles rules for hundreds of plumbing questions, so you can understand a problem before you call. The home page is the best place to start if you are not sure what you need.
How does a plumbing job run from first question to finished work?
You ask for a quote through the form or by phone, a local plumber contacts you to agree a visit, the plumber sees the job at your property and prices it in writing, and nothing starts until you say yes. The work is then booked directly with the business that quoted. The steps are set out in full on the page about how a job runs.
The visit matters more than a phone price. Pipes hide things. A leak under a slab, a corroded galvanized line or a drain that has settled cannot be priced from a description, and a quote that ignores them tends to grow later. Seeing the job lets the plumber give you a figure that includes the parts, the permit where one is needed and the repair of any wall that has to be opened.
Before you accept, read the quote for what it includes: the scope, the parts, whether the permit and the clean-up are in the price, and how payment is split. California limits the down payment on a home improvement contract to $1,000 or 10 percent of the price, whichever is less, according to the Contractors State License Board. If a quote asks for more up front, ask why.
What is City of Angels Plumbing?
City of Angels Plumbing is a mobile service. The work is done where you are, and there are no walk-in premises. We cover the City of Los Angeles, and the service is operated by City of Angels Plumbing. We take enquiries by form and phone during the hours shown on the contact page, and the email address is shown there as well.
We run two things side by side. One is the booking: a short form, a local plumber at your door and a written quote. The other is the information on this site. The guides cover everything from a running toilet to a whole-house repipe, with prices taken from published sources and labelled as a guide. The service does not set those figures. The plumber who sees your job does.
The work itself is quoted and carried out by a local plumbing business we work with, not by us directly. That is why the quote comes from them in writing and why your contract for the job is with them. The page on how a job runs explains the arrangement in plain words, and the terms set it out in legal wording.
What rules does the work follow?
Plumbing in California sits under three layers of rules: the state contractor license, the city permit and the utility's own requirements. A plumber working on your home should be able to tell you which apply to your job and who is handling each one.
For the license, California requires a contractor license for work worth $over $1,000 once labor and materials are added, and for any work that needs a building permit, as published by the Contractors State License Board. Plumbing falls under the C-36 Plumbing Contractor classification. You can look up a number on cslb.ca.gov and check that it is active before work starts. Always do this yourself, whatever any website says.
For permits, the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, known as LADBS, issues plumbing permits in the city. For example, LADBS requires a permit to replace a gas water heater in a single-family home, with a narrow exception for registered contractors replacing a heater of the same size and rating. Repiping, gas work and moving fixtures generally need permits as well. The water heater permit guide walks through how that works.
For gas, SoCalGas is the utility. If you smell gas, leave the building, call SoCalGas on 1-800-427-2200 from outside, and call 911 if there is danger. Gas piping is regulated work and is not a do-it-yourself job. The gas line guide covers what a plumber does there.
Sewers add one more rule. In the City of Los Angeles the property owner is responsible for the private sewer lateral running from the building to the street, and LA Sanitation looks after the public main.
Where in Los Angeles do we cover?
We cover the City of Los Angeles. Twelve neighborhoods have pages of their own on the areas page: Hollywood, Koreatown, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Boyle Heights, West Adams, Westchester, Miracle Mile, Los Feliz and Mar Vista. Each page covers housing age, rules and the kinds of jobs that come up there.
An address outside those twelve is still covered if it is inside the city. Some places with a Los Angeles mailing address are separate cities with their own permit offices, so tell us your street address when you ask for a quote, and we will say if it falls outside.
What will you not find on this site?
You will not find invented reviews, staff photos, named experts or a list of credentials we cannot show you. We do not publish an address for a shop, because there is no shop. We do not quote a fixed price for a job we have not seen. The price ranges in the guides are ranges from published sources, and they say so.
We also do not promise how fast anyone will reply, and we do not claim that every plumber everywhere will charge what a guide says. If a fact on a page could not be checked against an official source, the page says less instead of guessing. The sources sit at the foot of each page, so you can check them yourself.
Common questions
Do you come to my home in Los Angeles?
Yes. We are a mobile service, so a local plumber comes to your home or business inside the City of Los Angeles. There are no walk-in premises to visit. Use the quote form or ring during the hours shown on the contact page, and tell us the street address so we can confirm it falls inside the city.
How do I get a written quote?
Fill in the short form on the quotes page or call. A local plumber contacts you to agree a visit, looks at the job in person and gives you the price in writing. You are under no pressure to accept. If you say yes, the work is booked directly with the business that quoted.
Who does the work?
A local plumbing business we work with quotes the job and does it. That business answers for its own work, and it may pay us for the introduction, which is how the service is paid for. Using the service costs you nothing extra. The page on how a job runs explains this in full.
Can I check the plumber before I say yes?
Yes, and you should. Ask for the plumber's contractor license number, look it up on the CSLB site and check that it is active and that the classification fits the work. Ask who pulls the permit, what the written quote covers and when the work could start. A good plumber expects these questions.