about 15 minutes from our yard
Fifteen minutes from our yard. Newark is compact, mostly postwar and 1960s–70s tract, and easy for us to get to quickly.
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 15 minutes from our yard from Newark, which is why we can usually be there the same day rather than three days out.
In that time we've built up over 100 reviews across Google, Yelp and Angi — most of them from people in Newark and the cities around it. We're licensed, bonded and insured under CSLB #1156315, and our workmanship carries a five-year warranty, which is four years longer than most shops offer.
What that means for you day to day: someone answers the phone at any hour, the estimate and the trip are free, and you get the price in writing before anyone touches anything.
Newark's housing is concentrated in the 1950s through 1970s, with a mix of slab-on-grade and raised foundations. Supply lines are typically galvanized in the older sections and copper in the newer, and both are now old enough to be reaching the end of their useful lives.
Newark sits at low elevation near the bay, and the water table is closer to the surface than in the hill cities. That matters for any work that involves digging — a lateral replacement here can run into groundwater at a shallower depth than the same job in Castro Valley.
Newark is served by the Alameda County Water District, the same utility as Fremont and Union City.
Permits go through the City of Newark. We handle filing and inspection.
Neighborhoods
On the low-lying blocks we plan excavation work around the water table, and where trenchless methods will work we'd rather use them — less digging is less risk and less yard to put back.
What we do here
Common questions
Yes — we're about 15 minutes from our yard, and Newark is part of our regular working area, not an outer edge we occasionally reach.
Often same day. We're based at 773 W A Street in Hayward, about 15 minutes from our yard, and we're open 24 hours a day.
No. Estimates are free and there's no trip fee, including when we come out and can't get access.
Yes. Work that requires a permit in Newark goes through City of Newark Building Division, and we file it and meet the inspector.
Our workmanship is warrantied for five years. Parts and fixtures carry the manufacturer's warranty, and we handle those claims for you. Drain clearing is the one exclusion, since roots grow back.
Nearby
We cover all of Alameda and Contra Costa counties. If your city isn't listed, call and ask.
Let's get it fixed
Free estimates, no trip fee, and someone answers the phone at any hour.
