about 5 minutes from our yard
San Lorenzo is about five minutes from our yard, which is why we can usually get there same day — and why we've seen the inside of a lot of San Lorenzo Village plumbing.
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 5 minutes from our yard from San Lorenzo, 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 Lorenzo 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 Lorenzo Village is one of the most uniform housing tracts in the East Bay — built almost entirely between 1944 and 1950 as postwar housing, on a scale that was unusual at the time. When thousands of homes go up in the same six years to the same plans, they also fail on the same schedule.
That means original galvanized supply lines now roughly 75 to 80 years old, well past service life, and cast iron drains of the same vintage. The upside for you is that we've done this work in these exact floor plans many times, so we're not figuring out your house from scratch.
San Lorenzo is in EBMUD's service area, drawing from the Mokelumne River. That also puts the area within EBMUD's regional private sewer lateral program — worth knowing if you're selling or remodeling.
San Lorenzo is unincorporated, so permits run through Alameda County rather than a city desk. We handle the filing and the inspection either way.
Neighborhoods
Because the Village was built as a single planned development, the sewer laterals were installed at the same time in the same material. We've replaced enough of them on the same blocks to know roughly what we'll find before we put a camera in. If a neighbor recently had lateral work done, there's a fair chance yours is the same age and condition.
What we do here
Common questions
Yes — we're about 5 minutes from our yard, and San Lorenzo 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 5 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 Lorenzo goes through Alameda County Building Department, 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.
