Lake Stevens Plumber: Water Lines, Water Heaters and Sewer Work Around the County's Biggest Lake
Trenchless, low-impact water line & sewer replacement by our own crew, never subcontracted.
Done Right Plumbing is a licensed plumber serving Lake Stevens, from the old mill-town blocks downtown to Frontier Village, Machias and Soper Hill. The city has grown faster than almost any in Snohomish County, which means we work on two very different kinds of house here: cottages and ramblers near the water that have been on the same service line for fifty years, and subdivisions on the hills whose builder-grade water heaters are now reaching the end of their lives together. Our shop is in Lynnwood, the truck carries the common parts for both, and we pull the city permit ourselves.
Plumbing Services in Lake Stevens
Trenchless Water Line Replacement
Pull a new service line from the meter to the house under a lakefront lawn or a sloping lot without opening a trench across it.
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Trenchless Sewer Repair
Line or burst a failing lateral in place, so the yard between the house and the district's main stays where it is.
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Sewer Line Repair & Replacement
Spot repairs, new cleanouts and full replacements on the concrete and cast-iron laterals under the older blocks near the lake.
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Drain and Pipe Services
Kitchen, bath and main-line drain work, with a camera down the line before anyone quotes.
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Water Heater Installation & Repair
Tank and tankless replacements done complete, with straps, pan, expansion tank and the city permit, for the 1990s and 2000s subdivisions whose original heaters are due.
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24/7 Emergency Plumbing
Round-the-clock response on every side of the lake, from downtown to Frontier Village.
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Lake Stevens started as a mill town. The Rucker brothers opened their sawmill on the lake in 1907, it burned in 1925 and never reopened, and the town spent the next few decades as a place people came to for the water: the largest and deepest lake in Snohomish County, about a thousand acres with eight miles of shoreline. That is where the older housing is, the cottages and the 1950s and 60s ramblers within a few blocks of the shore, around the old downtown at the north end of the lake and down the east side. Then in 1960 the Frontier Village shopping center opened where Highway 9 meets Highway 204, the town incorporated the same year, and growth turned west and uphill. Most of the city's newer streets went in on the hills south and west of the lake between the 1990s and the 2010s, on Soper Hill and out toward Cavalero, while Machias on the east side keeps its farmhouse-era homes. A city of 31,000 people in 2016 is expected to pass 40,000 by 2035.
For plumbing, that history sorts the calls into two piles. Near the lake we see galvanized and black poly service lines that have been in the ground since the house was built, concrete laterals with roots in every joint, and crawlspaces that take on water every winter. On the hills we see PEX and PVC that will be fine for decades, feeding water heaters that were installed by the builder and are now fifteen to twenty years old, along with pressure regulators that have quietly stopped regulating.
Water and electricity both come from Snohomish County PUD, which buys most of its water from the City of Everett and delivers it through nine separate systems in and around Lake Stevens and Granite Falls. The PUD has finished swapping all of its water meters for advanced meters, so a Lake Stevens customer can see usage in one-hour increments in the MySnoPUD portal, and a service line leak shows up there as flow that never drops to zero, even at three in the morning. Sewer belongs to the Lake Stevens Sewer District, whose lines run around the perimeter of the lake to its Sunnyside treatment plant. The meter and the main are theirs; the service line from the meter to the house and the side sewer out to the main are yours, and those are the ones we repair and replace. Plumbing permits inside the city come from the Lake Stevens Permit Center, which now takes every residential plumbing application online.
Recent Work in Lake Stevens
In August, Malikai and Joshua took a call on the east shore of the lake where the water meter box had filled with water. That is the classic sign of a service line leaking close to the meter, and the crew traced it there: a narrow pit dug by hand beside the fence, down to the failing section of line, and a new length spliced in with clamped couplings, with tracer wire laid alongside so the plastic pipe can be located again. The repair was finished the same day, without an excavator or a trench across the yard.
About Lake Stevens
Lake Stevens is built around its lake, and the lake is the biggest and deepest in the county, about a thousand acres and 150 feet down at its deepest point. Lundeen Park on the shore has been a public park since 1908, North Cove Park anchors the old downtown at the north end of the lake, and the Frontier Village center on the west side is where the city does most of its shopping. Highway 9 runs up the west side toward Marysville and Snohomish, Highway 204 and the US 2 trestle carry the commute west to Everett and I-5, and our shop in Lynnwood is at the other end of that drive.
FAQs About Plumbing in Lake Stevens
Who supplies water and sewer in Lake Stevens, and where does my responsibility start?
Snohomish County PUD supplies both water and electricity in Lake Stevens, and the Lake Stevens Sewer District handles sewer. The PUD owns the meter and the main in the street, and the district owns the sewer main. The service line from the meter to your house and the side sewer from your house to the main are the homeowner's.
Those two private lines are the ones we repair and replace, and on the older lakefront blocks they are often the original pipe.
My PUD usage graph shows water running all night. Is that a leak?
Almost certainly. The PUD's advanced meters report use in one-hour increments, and a house with every tap closed should show zero between midnight and five. A steady trickle that never stops is water leaving the system somewhere, most often a service line between the meter and the house or a toilet flapper. We can tell which in one visit.
Do I need a permit for water heater or water line work in Lake Stevens?
Yes, inside the city limits. The Lake Stevens Permit Center issues residential plumbing permits, including water heater replacements, and takes the application online from the licensed contractor doing the work. We pull the permit, fold the fee into the quote and schedule the inspection, so the record of the work stays with the house when you sell it.
Are the older houses near the lake more likely to have water line problems?
Yes. A cottage or rambler near the shore is often still on the galvanized or black poly service line it was built with, and both fail with age: galvanized narrows from the inside, and poly splits at its fittings. First signs: a meter box full of water, a higher PUD bill or a wet patch of lawn that never dries.
Can you replace a water line in Lake Stevens without digging up the yard?
Usually, yes. We locate the utilities, open one small pit at the meter and one at the house, and pull a new PEX A line through the ground between them, so a sloping lakefront lot is left alone. Where the line has failed in one spot near the meter, a hand-dug repair like the one above is often enough.
How fast can you get to Lake Stevens from your shop?
Our shop is on 204th Street SW in Lynnwood, so a Lake Stevens address is usually thirty to forty minutes away by I-5 and the US 2 trestle, or up Highway 9, depending on the hour. A failed water heater or a leaking service line is a same-day call, and the common parts ride on the truck.
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Done Right Plumbing is fully licensed, bonded and insured in Washington State, family-owned and serving the greater Seattle area since 2011, with twelve technicians and our own trenchless, jetting and camera equipment. Your Lake Stevens job is run by a Done Right crew from the quote through cleanup, and we do not subcontract.
Call Done Right Plumbing for Lake Stevens Plumbing Services
A meter box that will not stay dry, a lateral that backs up every winter, or a builder-grade water heater that has reached its twentieth birthday? Call for a free estimate, or request a callback and we will reach you at a time that works.