Emergency plumbing
Water where it should not be, at the worst possible hour. Shutoff guidance on the phone, then a plumber dispatched.
See the page Emergency plumbingBurst pipe at midnight in Ontario. A drain backing up in a 1920s Portland bungalow. A well pump that quit outside Prineville. Tell us what is happening and we will connect you with an experienced local plumber who works in your community.
Someone picks up day or night. Same-day and emergency response across the state, with upfront pricing before any work begins.
Oregon Plumbing Dispatch is a referral line, not a single shop with one truck and one territory. When you call, you reach a dispatcher who takes down the problem, your city and your neighborhood, and connects you with an experienced local plumbing professional who already works in that area. That plumber quotes you directly, tells you what the work involves, and does the job.
The advantage of doing it this way is coverage. A shop based in Beaverton is not driving to Nyssa, and a Pendleton outfit is not taking a Saturday call in Coos County. Oregon is a big, awkwardly shaped state with mountain passes in the middle of it. By working with independent local pros in every region, we can answer the phone for a town of two hundred people the same way we answer it for Portland.
Tell the dispatcher as much as you can: what you are seeing, when it started, whether you have shut off the water, how old the house is. The more we know before dispatch, the better the match, and the more likely the plumber arrives with the right parts on the truck the first time.
Not sure whether it is urgent? Describe it to us and we will tell you honestly.
Talk to a Plumber TodayThe mountains split this state down the middle, and the plumbing problems on either side barely resemble each other. Any company that tells you the same winter story from Astoria to Ontario has not worked both sides.
Portland, the Willamette Valley and the coast range fringe get a long, steady wet season rather than a hard freeze. Water arrives from outside the house as often as it escapes from inside it.
Central Oregon, the Gorge and the eastern border country are high desert. Cold winters, dry summers, deeper frost and a completely different failure list.
Tell us your town and we will match you with a plumber who works that side of the mountains.
Speak With a Local ProFrom a two-hour drain call to a full repipe, these are the jobs that come through the line most often. Every one of them is handled by a local pro in your area.
Water where it should not be, at the worst possible hour. Shutoff guidance on the phone, then a plumber dispatched.
See the page Emergency plumbingKitchen, laundry, tub and main line stoppages, cabled or jetted depending on what is actually in the pipe.
See the page Drain cleaningA camera down the lateral tells you whether you have a blockage, a belly, a break or roots, before anyone digs.
See the page Sewer camera inspectionBuying an older Oregon home? Scoping the lateral before closing is one of the cheapest pieces of information you will ever buy.
See the page Pre-purchase sewer scopeNo hot water, rusty water, a puddle under the tank, or a tankless unit that keeps dropping out mid-shower.
See the page Water heater repairSplit copper, cracked PEX fittings and lines that froze in an unheated space. Most common east of the Cascades and in the Gorge.
See the page Burst pipe repairThirty-seven services, one phone number, and a plumber who works in your town.
Browse all services Get a Plumber Out HereFind your part of the state. Each regional page explains what plumbing is actually like there, and links to every community we cover in it.
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties, the Mount Hood corridor and the inner suburbs.
Portland Metro plumbingSalem, Keizer, McMinnville and the Marion, Polk and Yamhill county towns.
Mid-Willamette Valley plumbingAlbany, Corvallis, Lebanon, Sweet Home and the Linn, Benton and Lane county communities.
South Willamette Valley plumbingSt. Helens, Scappoose, Rainier, Vernonia, Clatskanie and the coast range fringe.
Columbia River and North Coast plumbingHood River, The Dalles, Mosier, Dufur and the Wasco and Sherman county towns.
Columbia Gorge plumbingBend, Redmond, Prineville, Madras, Sisters and La Pine, in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties.
Central Oregon plumbingPendleton, Hermiston, Ontario, Vale, Nyssa and the Umatilla and Malheur county border country.
Eastern Oregon plumbingOpen the full directory and find your community by name, or just call and tell us your neighborhood.
All areas we coverThe busy season is real in both places. It just arrives differently, and it asks for different preparation.
October through April, the wet season
Ground saturates, the water table comes up, and problems that were invisible in August start showing themselves. This is when crawl spaces get damp, sump pumps run for weeks, and tired sewer laterals finally give up.
November through March, freeze season
Central and Eastern Oregon get genuine cold, and the failures are sudden rather than gradual. Most burst-pipe calls trace back to one unheated space nobody thought about.
Seasonal work books out fast. Getting on the calendar early costs less than an emergency call.
Book Same-Day ServiceYou describe the problem. A person answers, not a form. If water is running right now, the first thing we will do is talk you through finding and closing your shutoff, that costs nothing and it is often the difference between a repair and a restoration job.
We match you locally. Your city and neighborhood decide who gets the call, along with what the job needs: a jetter, a camera, a well pump specialist, a gas-qualified tech.
You get pricing before work starts. The plumber assesses on site and tells you the number before touching anything. No hidden fees, and no work you did not agree to.
The work is guaranteed. Completed work carries a workmanship guarantee from the pro who performed it.
Before anyone can get to you, these four steps decide how bad it ends up being. Shut off the water, the main valve if you cannot isolate the fixture, and know now where yours is. Kill power to any circuit near standing water at the breaker, not at the outlet. Move what you can lift and get towels down. Then open a low faucet, ground floor or basement, to drain the pressure out of the system so the line stops feeding the leak while you wait.
We are a referral line. We connect homeowners with experienced independent local plumbing professionals across Oregon, and the work itself is performed by those independent contractors. You deal with the plumber directly on pricing and scheduling once we have made the match, and they are the ones who stand behind the completed work.
Yes. The line is staffed around the clock, including weekends and holidays. Overnight availability does vary by how remote your community is, a Portland or Salem call is easier to cover at 2am than one in Jordan Valley, but we will tell you honestly on the phone what the realistic arrival window looks like rather than promising something we cannot deliver.
We do not quote prices over this line, because the plumber who sees the job is the only person who can price it honestly. What we can promise is the process: they assess on site, give you the number before starting, and do not add charges you have not agreed to. Access, materials and how deep a line sits drive most of the variation.
Treat it as an emergency if water is actively escaping, if sewage is backing up into the house, if you smell gas, or if you have no water at all in freezing weather. A slow drip into a bucket, a single slow drain, or a running toilet can usually wait for normal hours. Describe it to us and we will give you a straight answer either way.
In most Oregon homes on city water it is either where the service line enters the house, often in a basement, crawl space or garage, or at the meter box near the street, which usually needs a meter key. On a private well the shutoff is typically at or near the pressure tank. Find yours on a calm afternoon, not while water is spraying.
Because it changes almost everything about the diagnosis. West of the mountains, water in a crawl space in January is more likely groundwater than a broken pipe. East of them, the same call in January is far more likely to be a genuine freeze failure. Knowing your side before dispatch means the right plumber arrives with the right equipment.
Both. A large share of the communities we cover are small, places like Rickreall, Shedd, Tygh Valley and Juntura. Coverage in the remote parts of the state depends on which local pros are working that day and how far they are travelling, so scheduling can be less immediate than in the metro area. We will be upfront about that when you call.
We can connect you with plumbers who handle the plumbing side: pressure tanks, pump wiring faults at the tank, house-side supply, and the drain lines running out to a septic tank. Tank pumping, drain-field work, well drilling and permitting are separate trades, and we will say so and point you in the right direction rather than sending the wrong person.
Permit and inspection rules exist for a lot of plumbing work, and they vary by jurisdiction and by the type of job. The same is true of who is responsible for a sewer lateral where it crosses into the public right of way. Check with your local building department, and ask the plumber what they are handling on the paperwork side before work begins.
Describe the problem, get connected to a local pro, and know the price before the work starts.
One call. Real person. Any community in Oregon.
Call and We'll Walk You Through It