Your Local Plumber in
Mountain View, CA
JetPipe Plumbing is based in Sunnyvale, one city over, and works in Mountain View homes most weeks: water heaters, drain and sewer service, main water lines, and whole house repiping from Monta Loma down to Cuesta Park. Licensed C-36, family owned, and open every day from seven in the morning until ten at night.
What We Fix in Mountain View Homes
Mountain View housing runs the full range, from the mid-century Eichlers of Monta Loma and the older streets off Castro to the townhouses that went up around Whisman Station. What goes wrong in a house depends a great deal on which of those it belongs to. Below is what we handle, grouped by the symptom rather than by the part.
No hot water, a tank that has started to weep at the base, rusty water at the tap, or you are ready to switch to tankless or a heat pump.
A kitchen line that backs up every few months, a tub that drains in its own time, gurgling, or a smell you cannot trace.
Pressure that drops the moment a second tap opens, rusty water after the house sits, or leaks that keep appearing in new spots.
Backups that return no matter how often the line is cleared, wet ground in the yard, or roots you have cut more than once.
A wet patch in the lawn, a meter that keeps turning with every fixture off, or a service line older than the house.
Spotting on glassware, scale inside a tankless unit, or a shutoff valve that has not turned in years.
A new range, a backyard grill, a pool heater, or the smell of gas near an appliance.
A stain spreading across the ceiling, a warm spot underfoot on the slab, or a water bill that jumped with nothing else changed.
A faucet that will not stop dripping, a shower that runs cold, or a toilet that runs all night.
Same City, Very Different Plumbing
A repipe in a Monta Loma Eichler and a repipe in a Whisman Station townhouse are not the same job, and anyone quoting both over the phone at the same number has not opened the walls in either one.
Mid-century Eichlers and the Mackay and Mardell houses next to them, built on a slab with the supply lines and the radiant heating tubing set into the concrete. The original copper has carried water for a long time, and when it pins the first sign is a warm spot on the floor. Where the layout allows it we route the new lines above the slab rather than through it, and we treat the radiant loops as something to protect, not cut across.
The oldest housing in the city. Galvanized supply lines closing up from the inside, clay and cast iron sewer laterals under mature street trees, and shutoff valves that seize the first time anyone turns them. Lots are small and parking near downtown is tight, so we plan staging before the truck arrives.
Ranch houses from the same era, some on a slab and some over a crawlspace. Water heaters at the end of their life, original main water lines under the front lawn, and a growing number of owners switching from gas to a heat pump unit while the local rebate is on the table.
PEX manifolds, tankless units already on the wall, and an association that wants paperwork before anyone touches an exterior wall. The pipe is newer, so the work here tends to be fixtures, valves and water quality.
Licensed, Family-Owned, and
Accountable for Every Job
JetPipe Plumbing was founded by Anna Gurbanova-Muravyeva, and she and her husband still run it. That matters more than it sounds. When you call, you are reaching a small local company where the owners are accountable for the work, not a call center routing your job to whoever is available that afternoon.
We are a C-36 licensed plumbing contractor, license number 1139033, and we carry full liability insurance. Hydro jetting, pipe bursting, and trenchless installation are all done in house, with equipment we own and crews we trained.
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- We work on homes, not commercial buildings, and that focus is deliberate. Residential plumbing in the Bay Area has its own set of problems. Mountain View water comes mostly from the Hetch Hetchy system and is on the soft side, so the usual story here is age rather than scale. Clay soil shifts and cracks sewer lines. Homes built before the seventies still run galvanized supply pipe that is closing up from the inside. We see the same failures week after week across the Bay Area, and we know what actually fixes them.
- That experience is why most of our work is the jobs other companies avoid. Whole house repiping in copper or PEX. Main water line replacement without tearing up the driveway. Sewer line repair and full sewer replacement. Water heater installation, including tankless units and heat pump systems. Switching from gas to a heat pump qualifies for a local rebate. Gas line installation for a new range or a backyard kitchen. If it runs water or gas through a house, we handle it.
- Every estimate starts with a free on-site assessment. You get a written price before any work begins, and that price is what you pay. No hourly billing, no invoice that grew while you were at work.
Jobs We Finished in Mountain View
Every photo below comes from a Mountain View address. Repipes, sewer replacements, water heater swaps, gas lines. No stock images.
The Permit and the Rebate Are Our Job, Not Yours
Mountain View issues its own building permits through the Building Division at City Hall, and water and sewer are city utilities too, with most of the drinking water coming down from Hetch Hetchy. Electricity and gas come through PG&E, and the clean energy side runs through Silicon Valley Clean Energy, which is where the water heater rebate lives. We work inside that setup often enough to know the order things happen in.
A permit is required for every water heater installation and replacement in the city. For a like-for-like swap in the same spot the city issues it online the same day, with no plans. Move the unit, or go from gas to a heat pump, and the application goes through plan review first, which takes a few business days. Our permit department runs the load calculation, checks whether your existing panel supports the new unit as it stands, draws whatever the city asks for and pulls the permit. When the inspector comes out, one of our people is there with the documentation, so you are not the one answering questions about work you did not perform.
Worth knowing before you plan your week. A heat pump water heater needs its approval in hand before install day, so same day applies to the estimate rather than to the installation. The install itself runs three to five hours. Inspections are morning slots with a two hour window, on the day itself.
The rebate for switching from a gas water heater to a heat pump unit comes through Silicon Valley Clean Energy, the same program your neighbors in Sunnyvale and Cupertino use. Our permit department prepares the application alongside the permit and files it in the order the program asks for. You pay the install cost upfront, and the rebate reaches you afterward, usually within a few months.
Financing through Synchrony with $0 down and 0% interest when you pay the full balance within 6, 9, 12, or 18 months. You pay exactly the amount on our invoice. Subject to credit approval.
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Neighborhoods We Cover in Mountain View
We are based in Sunnyvale, right across the city line, so most Mountain View
addresses are a short drive rather than a trip across the valley. If your street is not
listed below, call anyway. We are usually closer than you expect.
The map shows where we work most weeks, not a fence. We are based next door in Sunnyvale and take Mountain View jobs all the time. One call tells you whether we can reach you.
Do I need a permit to replace a water heater in Mountain View?
It is, for every installation and replacement. For a like-for-like swap the city issues it online the same day and we pull it as part of the job, so it adds no delay. Where it matters more is a gas to heat pump switch: the permit becomes part of the rebate file, and the inspection record is what the program checks.
My house sits on a slab. Can you repipe without breaking up the floor?
The supply lines and the radiant heating tubing both sit inside the slab, so chasing a leak through the floor is the last thing we want to do. Where the layout allows it, the new copper and PEX is routed above the slab and the old lines are abandoned in the concrete. We walk the house first and show you exactly where the openings will be before anything is cut.
Our sewer keeps backing up. Is the problem in our line or the city’s?
Nearly every backup we trace turns out to be in the line running from your house toward the street, not in the main itself. The older streets around downtown still run clay and cast iron laterals under mature trees. We put a camera down the line first so the answer is on video rather than a guess, and if the problem is in the city main we tell you so.
How quickly can someone actually get here?
Our shop is right across the city line, so a Mountain View address is one of the shortest drives we make. We are open every day from seven in the morning until ten at night, and we hold same day slots for the problems that will not wait.
Who does the heat pump rebate go to, me or the contractor?
To you. You pay the full install cost upfront, our permit department files the application with Silicon Valley Clean Energy alongside the permit, and the money reaches you once the city has signed off on the inspection. If a program pays the contractor instead, we forward it.
Do I need a water softener in Mountain View?
Most of the city drinks Hetch Hetchy water, which is on the soft side, so a softener is less of a given here than in parts of the valley on well water. Where it still earns its place is spotting on glass, scale inside a tankless heat exchanger, or a house in one of the zones blended with Valley Water supply. We test before we recommend anything.
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