Emergency Plumber
A burst pipe or a sewer backup needs a plumber at any hour. ASC Plumbing takes emergency calls 24/7, nights and weekends included.
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ASC Plumbing is a plumbing company serving Salinas and the towns around it. Our drain cleaning service covers clogged kitchen sinks, bathroom sinks, tubs, showers, toilets and floor drains. When water backs up in more than one place at once, we clear the main sewer line.
Many clogs start with what goes down the drain, like grease, food scraps, hair or wipes. Others start in the pipe itself, where roots have grown in or an old line has cracked. We clear the line and tell you what we found. Any repair goes in a written quote before the work starts.
Tell us about the leak, clog, water heater or repipe and where the property is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
A kitchen sink clog usually starts with grease and food scraps. Grease runs down warm and hardens in the pipe as it cools. Food sticks to it until the sink drains slowly or stops. The City of Salinas asks residents to pour cooled grease into the trash instead.
Bathroom sinks and tubs clog with hair and soap. A clogged shower drain often shows up first as water pooling around your feet. A clogged toilet usually comes from too much paper at once or from something that should not be flushed.
Drain unclogging starts at the fixture. Many sink clogs sit in the trap, the curved pipe under the sink, which can be taken apart and cleaned. Clogs farther down the line are cleared with a drain cable, also called a snake or an auger.
Every drain in the house empties into the main sewer line. When that line clogs, water backs up at the lowest drain first, often a shower or a tub. A toilet that gurgles when the washer drains is another warning sign.
In Salinas, the pipe from the building to the city main is called the sewer lateral. The City of Salinas puts the whole lateral on the property owner, including the connection at the main. The city maintains the main in the street. Elsewhere in the area, your city or sewer district can tell you where its part of the line begins.
A main line is usually cleared from a cleanout. That is a capped pipe that opens into the line, often near the house or the sidewalk. If sewage is already coming up into the house, call our emergency plumber service.
Cleaning opens the line, yet whatever caught the clog may still be there. When the same drain backs up again within weeks or months, the next step is to find that cause. Grease that coats the pipe walls is one. Roots in the sewer lateral are another.
More than half the homes in Salinas were built before 1980, by Census Bureau estimates. The City of Salinas notes that many older homes still rely on their original sewer laterals. Those pipes crack or pull apart at the joints over time, and roots follow the moisture inside. The city treats roots in a lateral as the property owner's repair, even under public property.
When a section of drain line has failed, another cleaning only buys time. The fix is to open that section and lay new pipe, and the written quote spells out that work. California law has a contractor call 811 before digging a trench, so utilities can mark buried lines. A leak on a water supply pipe is a separate job for our plumbing repair service.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 35 miles around Salinas across Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties.
(831) 262-9943From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (831) 262-9943 and describe the problem. Let us know the town and whether it is a home or a business.
We come out and find what is causing the problem. A wet ceiling or a slow drain gets traced back to its source.
You get the quote in writing, with each part of the work listed. The work starts once you say yes.
We shut the water off where the job needs it. Then we do the work the quote describes.
We turn the water back on and test the work for leaks. Then we go over the finished job with you.
Common questions about drain cleaning around Salinas and the Monterey Bay Area. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
A burst pipe or a sewer backup needs a plumber at any hour. ASC Plumbing takes emergency calls 24/7, nights and weekends included.
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We repair leaking pipes, slab leaks, running toilets, dripping faucets and jammed garbage disposals. We look at the job first and put the quote in writing.
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We replace the water pipe in a house or building when old galvanized steel or copper starts to fail. Whole house and partial repipes go in as PEX or copper, with the quote in writing.
Learn MoreWe work in one trade. Pipes, drains, fixtures and water heaters make up the whole job list, at homes and at businesses.
We look at the job before we price it. Then the quote comes to you in writing, with the work spelled out.
Our service area reaches about 35 miles around Salinas. It takes in the Salinas Valley, the Monterey Peninsula, Hollister and the Santa Cruz County side of the bay.
Tell us what is going on with the plumbing and the town the building is in. Call or text (831) 262-9943 or use the form, and we will get back to you.
Tell us about the leak, clog, water heater or repipe and where the property is. We look at the job and put the quote in writing.
