about 20 minutes from our yard
Licensed plumbers covering Alameda from our Hayward yard — water heaters, drains, sewer lines, leak detection and repipes, seven days a week.
Friendly Services is a family-run, employee-owned plumbing company working out of the same yard on West A Street in Hayward for twenty years. We're about 20 minutes from our yard from Alameda.
We've built over 100 reviews across Google, Yelp and Angi in that time. Licensed, bonded and insured under CSLB #1156315, with a five-year workmanship warranty — four years longer than most shops offer.
Free estimates, no trip fee, and the price in writing before anyone touches anything.
Alameda has one of the oldest housing stocks in the Bay Area — large numbers of Victorians and Edwardians from the 1890s through the 1920s, plus postwar development on the Bay Farm side.
Original galvanized supply lines in the older homes are long past service life, and clay sewer laterals under mature street trees are the most common reason an Alameda home fails a lateral inspection.
Alameda is served by EBMUD.
Work that needs a permit goes through City of Alameda Permit Center. We file it and meet the inspector rather than leaving that to you.
This city sits inside EBMUD's regional private sewer lateral program, so a compliance certificate is generally required when a property is sold or goes through a major renovation. We handle inspection through certificate — more on that here.
Island geography means high water table in places and older infrastructure throughout. On the Victorians we usually recommend seeing the whole supply system before agreeing to a spot repair — patching one section of 100-year-old galvanized often just moves the failure downstream.
Neighborhoods
Yes. We're about 20 minutes from our yard, working out of our yard at 773 W A Street in Hayward.
We're about 20 minutes from our yard, so same-day is often possible. We give you an honest window when you call rather than an optimistic one.
Yes, and there's no trip fee — including if we come out and can't get access.
Yes. Permitted work in Alameda goes through City of Alameda Permit Center, and we file it and meet the inspector.
Five years on our workmanship. Parts carry the manufacturer's warranty and we handle those claims. Drain clearing is the one exclusion.
Let's get it fixed
Free estimates, no trip fee, and someone answers the phone at any hour.