Commercial plumbing in Los Angeles for shops, offices, restaurants and warehouses

Commercial restrooms take far more use than a home bathroom. Flushometer valves on toilets and urinals need rebuild kits every few years, and hard water speeds that up. Sensor faucets and flush valves fail at the solenoid or battery, and wall-hung fixtures rely on carriers inside the wall that loosen when someone leans on a sink.

We carry common flushometer kits and replacement parts for the brands found in most Los Angeles businesses, so many restroom calls are fixed on the first visit. When a fixture keeps clogging, we look at the branch drain, since commercial restrooms often share one horizontal line that collects paper and debris. For a single failing bowl in a smaller office, our toilet repair notes apply too.

• Flushometer diaphragm and piston rebuilds
• Sensor faucet and flush valve repair
• Wall-hung toilet and sink carrier tightening
• Accessible fixture height and grab bar clearance
• Restroom branch drain clearing

Restaurants, salons, gyms and warehouses depend on floor drains. Food solids, hair, lint and sediment settle in floor sinks and their traps. If a trap primer fails, the trap dries out and sewer gas reaches the space. We clean floor drains, replace grates and primers, and clear the branch lines they feed.

Most commercial backups trace to the building drain or the lateral to the street. We clear it from the main cleanout, then run a camera through the line to see grease buildup, roots or broken pipe. In food service, grease lines connect to the interceptor, covered on our grease trap page.

Commercial water heaters run harder than home units and scale faster in hard water. Restaurants and laundromats often need high-recovery tanks or banks of tankless heaters, plus booster heaters at dishwashers. Undersized or scaled heaters are the main reason hot water runs out during peak hours.

We flush and descale heaters on a schedule, replace anodes and relief valves, and size replacements to your actual demand. Gas work for ranges, fryers, dryers and rooftop units includes piping, flex connectors, shutoffs and a pressure test. If you are adding equipment, our gas line installation page covers sizing and permits.

Every tank still needs seismic strapping, and every gas appliance needs a reachable shutoff. Those are the first things inspectors check after a tenant improvement.

When a space changes hands, the plumbing layout usually changes too: new restrooms, a break room sink, a mop sink, or a full kitchen. We rough in drains, vents, water and gas to match the plans, then coordinate inspections with the general contractor or property owner.

Many businesses cannot shut down for plumbing. We schedule shutdowns and noisy work before opening, after closing or on weekends, and we keep water off for as short a time as possible. Because we answer 24/7, an overnight backup or burst line gets a response before customers arrive. If the space also has a backflow assembly on its water service, we can test it during the same visit through our annual backflow test work, which saves a second shutdown. We cover storefronts and offices from downtown out to Long Beach and the Valley.