about 10 minutes from our yard
Ten minutes up the road from our Hayward yard. San Leandro mixes prewar homes near the downtown core with postwar tract further out, and the plumbing tells you which one you're in.
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 10 minutes from our yard from San Leandro, 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 San Leandro 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.
San Leandro has two distinct housing stories. Near the older downtown core and Estudillo, you'll find homes from the 1900s through the 1930s: original galvanized long since past its life, knob-and-tube-era construction, and clay sewer laterals with a lot of joints. Further out toward Washington Manor and Bay-O-Vista, it's postwar tract from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
The older homes tend to need full repipes rather than spot repairs, because patching one failed section of 90-year-old galvanized just moves the problem downstream. The postwar homes are usually at the water heater and drain stage.
San Leandro is served by EBMUD and falls within its regional private sewer lateral program — relevant any time a property changes hands.
Water heaters, repipes, and lateral work are permitted through the City of San Leandro. We pull the permit and meet the inspector.
Neighborhoods
The older parts of San Leandro have narrow side yards and detached garages, which affects how a repipe or a lateral replacement actually gets done. We look at access before quoting, because a job that needs to route around a tight lot is a different job than one with an open side yard.
What we do here
Common questions
Yes — we're about 10 minutes from our yard, and San Leandro 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 10 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 San Leandro goes through City of San Leandro 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.
