Why this call
What is going wrong in a Los Angeles house?
Los Angeles is several drying jobs under one name. A supply break in a Highland Park or Echo Park house drops into a crawl space and a hardwood floor. The same break in a Valley ranch or a Westside slab travels under the concrete until the floor is warm and the bill has already jumped. In a 1920s court or a dingbat, the unit that is wet is often the one below the unit where the pipe failed.
- Water in a downstairs unit when the supply line is in the apartment above.
- A warm slab in the Valley or on the Westside before a puddle shows.
- A crawl space under a prewar house that smells wet after the valve is closed.
Say the neighborhood, which floor the water is on, and whether it is still rising. A renter calling for someone else’s building is not this dispatch. If you own the house or the unit, those three facts are what schedule the crew.
The houses
What gets wet in Los Angeles?
The City of Los Angeles is several housing stocks sharing a name. Highland Park, Echo Park, and much of South Los Angeles still have prewar wood houses, plaster, and raised floors. A line break there wets a crawl space and a hardwood floor. The Valley ranches and the Westside slabs hide the leak under concrete until the floor is warm and the bill has already jumped. Hillside houses in the eastern Santa Monicas and the Hollywood Hills add decks, stucco, and water that travels sideways inside a wall. Apartment courts from the 1920s and dingbats from the 1960s add a second failure: a break upstairs is standing water in the unit below.
The water
How does water usually get into a Los Angeles house?
The Los Angeles River is a channel, and the neighborhoods beside it, from Studio City to Frogtown to Vernon’s edge, are where a major storm puts water in the street. That is not automatically a plumbing call. The call this line schedules is standing water inside a home the caller owns, from a pipe, a heater, a shower valve, or a slab leak that has already surfaced. Say the neighborhood, the floor the water is on, and whether it is still rising. A renter calling for a landlord’s building is not the job.
The map
Which parts of Los Angeles does this page cover?
Silver Lake, Echo Park, Highland Park, Boyle Heights, Leimert Park, West Adams, Venice, Mar Vista, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, San Pedro, and Wilmington are Los Angeles. Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Culver City, Burbank, Glendale, and Inglewood are not. They have their own pages when they are on the dispatch list. If you are inside the City of Los Angeles, start here.
ZIP codes
Codes covered on this Los Angeles page
- 90001
- 90002
- 90003
- 90004
- 90005
- 90006
- 90007
- 90008
- 90009
- 90010
- 90011
- 90012
- 90013
- 90014
- 90015
- 90016
- 90017
- 90018
- 90019
- 90020
- 90021
- 90022
- 90023
- 90024
- 90025
- 90026
- 90027
- 90028
- 90029
- 90030
- 90031
- 90032
- 90033
- 90034
- 90035
- 90036
- 90037
- 90038
- 90039
- 90040
- 90041
- 90042
- 90043
- 90044
- 90045
- 90046
- 90047
- 90048
- 90049
- 90050
- 90051
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- 90053
- 90054
- 90055
- 90056
- 90057
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- 90059
- 90060
- 90061
- 90062
- 90063
- 90064
- 90065
- 90066
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- 90068
- 90070
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- 90072
- 90073
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- 90080
- 90081
- 90082
- 90083
- 90084
- 90086
- 90087
- 90088
- 90089
- 90091
- 90093
- 90094
- 90095
- 90096
- 90097
- 90099
- 90101
- 90102
- 90103
- 90174
- 90185
- 90189
A shared ZIP can sit on a city line. Use the city the house is actually in, not only the number on the mail.