The trucks run through here as a matter of course, which is what makes same-day service possible. Drains, sewer lines, water heaters, repipes and septic, handled by a family shop that has worked this valley since 1982.
Being local means the response time is real rather than a promise made from another county.
Renovation work is common in this area, and remodels regularly uncover plumbing that needs attention before the new work goes in.
The work here ranges from a single slow drain to a full repipe, and we price and explain both the same way.
Plenty of properties in our service area were never tied into a municipal sewer, so the whole system is a tank and a leach field sitting in somebody's yard.
We inspect the real condition of the system before recommending anything, because the fix depends entirely on what we find.
Underground work around Glendora is where diagnosis matters most, because the cost of guessing is a trench in the wrong place. Locating a fault precisely, with depth and position marked, is what keeps excavation to one careful hole.
Diagnostic gear earns its keep by ruling things out. Most of the value is in the repairs you do not end up paying for.
Cracked, offset and root-invaded laterals.
Replacing failing supply piping through a house.
Burst pipes, backups and after-hours failures.
No hot water, leaking tanks, failed elements.
Pressurized lines failing under a concrete slab.
Fixtures, valves and rough-in for bathrooms.
Replacing a tank water heater.
Finding the leak before anything is opened.
Urgent calls get triaged on the phone. Sometimes the most valuable thing we do is tell you what to do in the next two minutes.
If we find something beyond what you called about, you hear about it and approve it before we touch it.
If this has happened before, telling us what was done last time saves repeating work that did not fix it.
We would rather tell you the truth about a system that is near the end of its life than sell you a repair that buys six months.
The damage around a leak is usually more expensive than the leak, which is why we push people to have things looked at early.
Hard water affects every Glendora property regardless of how new it is. The equipment is modern; the water going through it is the same as everywhere else in the valley.
Exercise your shutoff valves once a year. A quarter turn and back keeps them from seizing, and a main shutoff that will not turn during an emergency is a much more expensive problem than one that gets used occasionally.
Water heaters benefit from an annual flush in this region more than almost anywhere else, because our water leaves sediment on the bottom of the tank where the heat has to pass through it.
Wipes should not go down any drain, whether the packet says flushable or not. They do not break down, and they are behind a large share of the main line blockages we clear.
Knowing your own system is worth real money. Where the main shutoff is, where the sewer cleanout is, how old the water heater is, and whether the property is on sewer or septic. Those four facts shorten every future service call you will ever have.
Check the pressure at a hose bib occasionally. Above about eighty psi you are shortening the life of every fixture, valve and appliance in the building, and a regulator is a cheap fix.
When you call, a person answers, day or night. That has been true since Big Mike ran the phone himself, and it is one of the reasons people keep calling us.
Licensed for plumbing and for sanitation systems, and as a general engineering contractor, which between them cover everything we are asked to do here.
Our territory spans mountain-adjacent communities, valley cities and desert towns, each with its own water conditions and construction patterns.
We are a family shop, not a franchise. The person who answers has a stake in how your job goes.
Big Mike's · serving Glendora, California
In Glendora most residential calls start with something that changed: a drain that slowed, pressure that dropped, or a noise from the water heater that was not there last month.
Property managers and business owners in Glendora use us for routine maintenance and for the calls that cannot wait until morning.
Some Glendora addresses have never had their septic system located or documented. Finding out what you have is usually where we start on those.
We have run a 24-hour line for four decades rather than an answering service that takes a message.
If yours is not here, call and ask.
Yes. Glendora is part of our regular service area out of Yucaipa, and has been for years. We cover residential, commercial and septic work here.
We run a 24-hour line and same-day service is normal. When you call we will give you a realistic window for Glendora rather than an optimistic one.
Yes, and it is a big part of what we do. We hold sanitation licensing alongside plumbing, so tanks, leach lines and the plumbing feeding them are all one contractor.
No. Quotes are free and they follow an actual look at the problem rather than a guess over the phone.
Yes. Nights, weekends and holidays are ordinary working hours in this trade, and emergency calls are answered around the clock.
Yes, and we do regularly. A shop that has been in one family for four decades cannot afford a reputation for selling people work they did not need.
Yucaipa and out across San Bernardino County, Riverside County and the eastern edge of Los Angeles County. If you are not sure you are in range, call and ask.
No. Quotes are free and they come after we have looked at the actual problem, not over the phone from a description.
West Covina · Covina · Diamond Bar · Duarte · Baldwin Park · Bradbury · Claremont · Azusa · Pomona · San Dimas
Tell us what it is doing and we will tell you what it takes to fix it. Plain language, and the number before anything starts.
Yucaipa, California · Serving San Bernardino, Riverside and eastern Los Angeles counties · Open 24 hours
