Hose Bib & Hammer Arrester
New exterior hose bib in copper with a water hammer arrester, so the pipe stops banging in the wall when the valve snaps shut.
Hidden leak in a Mountain View home? We locate it without demolition — and if you own an Eichler with radiant slab heating, that is a specialty, not a guess.
Mountain View has the county's highest concentration of Eichler homes, and Eichlers leak differently from every other house. Radiant heating tubing was run inside the concrete slab in the 1950s, and after seventy years that steel tubing corrodes and fails inside the concrete. The symptoms are unlike a supply leak: a heating system that will not hold pressure, a warm patch that appears only when the heat runs, damp spots at the slab perimeter, or a boiler that keeps needing water added. Locating a radiant leak takes pressure isolation of the heating loop, thermal imaging while the system runs, and patience — and the honest options afterward are a spot repair, abandoning a loop, or overhead reroute. We will lay out all three rather than pushing the largest one. Monta Loma, Rex Manor and Waverly Park are where we see this most.
On the supply side, Mountain View's water is largely soft SFPUC Hetch Hetchy, so copper pinholing from mineral aggression is less common here than in San Jose. Leaks in the 1950s and 60s slab tracts more often come from mechanical causes: pipe contact with rebar, a nail or screw driven during a remodel, or a failed fitting under concrete. The tells are the classic ones — a meter that creeps with every fixture off, a step change in monthly usage, or unexplained indoor humidity.
Whichever it is, we isolate hot and cold separately, pressure-test to establish which side is losing, listen acoustically, and thermal-image to map moisture before anything is opened. Access happens at the located point — typically within about a foot — not on a hunch. In Old Mountain View's pre-war homes we also check for galvanized supply failing at threaded joints inside walls, which presents as a slow stain rather than a flood.
ZIP codes served: 94040 · 94041 · 94043
Seventy-year-old heating tubing failing inside concrete. Different symptoms, different method, and three honest repair options — not one.
Hetch Hetchy supply means fewer mineral pinholes. Here the cause is more often rebar contact, a remodel screw, or a failed under-slab fitting.
Threaded joints inside walls leak slowly for weeks. Pressure isolation finds them before the drywall shows it.
Same-day windows across 94040, 94041, 94043 and the rest of Mountain View, seven days a week from 7AM to 9PM, with a flat-rate price quoted before any work starts.
New exterior hose bib in copper with a water hammer arrester, so the pipe stops banging in the wall when the valve snaps shut.
Installed an automatic shutoff and flow monitor on the main — it closes the water and alerts the homeowner’s phone when it sees a leak.
Both trucks stocked with the common failure parts — water heaters, valves, and fittings — so most jobs finish on the first visit.
“First plumber who actually understood Eichler radiant heat instead of shrugging. Found the loop and gave us real options.”
“Located a slab leak within a foot and opened one small square of concrete. Precise work.”
“Licensed, insured, showed the license number without me asking, and the price on the invoice matched the quote exactly.”
Flat-rate pricing quoted before work starts, same-day windows across Mountain View, open seven days a week from 7AM to 9PM. Licensed & insured, CSLB #1160220.