The Plumbers You'd Send to Your Mom's House
Plumbing

Serving Simi Valley, Ventura County, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, and Northern LA County.

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Where Dutton Started

Licensed Plumbing Services in Simi Valley and Ventura County

Dutton Plumbing, Cooling, Heating & Electrical has been the plumbing company Simi Valley calls since 1987. We work across Ventura County, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita, and Northern LA County, handling everything from a dripping faucet to a failing main line. Plumbing emergencies, too, with a 24/7 agent available day or night.

You don’t need a diagnosis before you call. Describe the noise, point at the puddle, and we’ll take it from there. Our trucks run stocked, so most repairs wrap on the first visit instead of a second trip later in the week, and most emergency calls during the day get a plumber at the door within an hour. Nearly forty years in, there isn’t much a Simi Valley house can do that we haven’t seen.

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Give us a call or book online, and we’ll find a window that works for you. 

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Plumbing Services We Offer in Simi Valley & Ventura County

Emergency Plumbing

Plumbing Repairs

Leak Detection

Slab Leaks

Pipe Replacement

Toilet Repair & Installation

We also handle faucets, sinks, showers and tubs, garbage disposals, and dishwasher hookups, plus gas lines, new fixture installs, and water-saving upgrades. Yearly maintenance, too, which is the cheapest way to stay off the rest of this list. If it moves water or gas through your house, we can fix it.

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Worth a Phone Call

How Do You Know When a Plumbing Problem Needs a Professional?

Some plumbing announces itself. A pipe bursts, the hallway floods, and nobody needs a checklist to figure out what happens next.

The quieter ones are a bit different. Here are some problems worth calling about:

Plumbing in This Corner of California

What Four Decades Under These Houses Has Taught Us

Homes around here have habits. Spend enough time crawling under them, and you start recognizing the pattern before the toolbox is open.

The water here is hard, and it is patient.

Mineral content across Ventura County builds up inside water heaters, chews through fixtures, and quietly narrows older pipe. A good share of what we repair traces back to it eventually.

Almost nothing here has a basement.

Supply lines run through the slab instead, so a leak down there doesn't hand you a puddle to point at. It gives you a warm spot on the tile and a bill that crept up.

Older houses still have older pipes.

Plenty of homes in Simi Valley and Sylmar run the original galvanized steel, which corrodes from the inside out. Pressure fades for years before anything visibly fails.

How We Work

Why Simi Valley Homeowners Keep Calling Dutton for Plumbing

The Price Comes First, and It Doesn't Move

We quote by the job, not by the hour. You hear the number before anything starts, and it's the same number when we pack up. If the work runs long, that's ours to absorb.

We'll Tell You When the Cheap Fix Is the Right One

Not every problem needs an expensive answer. Sometimes a repair buys you another five years, and sometimes it doesn't, and we'll tell you which one you're looking at, including the times when the honest answer earns us less.

The Person at Your Door Has Been Vetted

Background-screened, drug-tested, and trained every week. Boot covers go on before anybody steps inside, and the house gets left the way it was found.

Licensed for Every Part of the Job

Plumbing problems have a way of turning into electrical problems or revealing that a water heater was never vented correctly. We're licensed across plumbing, HVAC, and electrical, so when our team finds it, we can also fix it.

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Questions We Get Asked

Common Plumbing Questions From Simi Valley Homeowners

How much does a plumber cost in Simi Valley?

It depends on the job, but you'll have the number before we start. Dutton quotes by the job instead of by the hour, so a repair that runs long doesn't run up your bill.

The clearest sign is a water bill that climbed without you changing a thing. After that, look for damp or warm spots on the floor, a musty smell in a room with no business smelling musty, baseboards that have started to warp, and the sound of water running when the house is quiet. Slab leaks rarely produce visible water, which is how they go unnoticed for months at a stretch.

Constantly. A lot of houses in Simi Valley, Sylmar, and around the valley still have the galvanized steel they were built with, which corrodes from the inside and slowly strangles the water pressure. We do sectional repairs and full repipes, and we'll be straight with you about which one your house needs.

If water is going somewhere it shouldn't, shut it off. Most homes have a main valve near the street or along an exterior wall, and individual fixtures usually have their own underneath. Clear a path if you can. If you smell gas, skip all of that, get everyone outside, and call from the sidewalk.

Every technician gets background-screened and drug-tested before working in anyone's home, which is the standard we'd want if it were our mom's house.

Once a year suits most houses, and more often for any building that’s more than thirty years old or sitting on a lot with mature trees. An annual look catches corrosion, pressure problems, and slow leaks while they’re still cheap to deal with. A plumbing safety inspection comes with the Dutton Deluxe membership at $99 a year, if you’d rather not keep track of it yourself.

Ready When You Are

Let's Get Your Home's Ducks in a Row

Plumbing problems have terrible timing. Yours will pick a holiday, a houseful of guests, or the one weekend you finally had plans.

Ours is the name Simi Valley families have been calling since 1987, and we have yet to meet a leak that impressed us.

Give us a call or book online, and we’ll get a plumber pointed your way.