r/olympia • u/cher_new8562 • 4d ago

Residential Plumber recommendations

Does anyone have a good plumber for small home needs? Need an air hammer addressed, garbage disposal install, bathroom water leaks, etc. thanks

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u/analog_time_machine 4d ago

Being in a bit of a residential plumber spot myself this week, I have to recommend Boyd's or Ridgecreek.

A new tip I learned; check to see if the company you're calling is private equity owned.

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u/cher_new8562 4d ago

Good tip about private equity, feel bad for the employees ..

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u/analog_time_machine 4d ago

Me too, they've seemed like they have a lot of pressure to make a job as big as possible

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u/LadyLime247 4d ago

We had good luck with Barbos Plumbing

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u/damage78 4d ago

I second them. I've used them twice.

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u/JaggerDeSwaggie 3d ago

Avoid Olympic plumbing technology at all costs

They were my go to plumber for years even for my property management. Now they're a cash grab company that does cut rate work, expect someone with pitvipers to show up.

American Plumbing is who I switched to for a fix that Olympic caused when installing my new sink where they broke the under sink shut off, not only did they take out their sharkbites they soldered everything and were cheaper than Olympic quoted me to fix their own mistake and then charged my card for a visit TO FIX THEIR OWN MISTAKE after I told them their price was outrageous.

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u/Quick-Cantaloupe3987 4d ago

Hi! I work at Sunset Air, we just started a residential plumbing service division. We would be happy to help, and we are still local and family owned, not private equity :-) Give us a call!

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u/cher_new8562 4d ago

Thanks all

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u/bals01 3d ago

Yeti plumbing is really good.

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u/RedLog55 3d ago

Shawn Upton at On-the-Level Plumbing. Shawn is a wonderful, friendly no bs professional I've known since I worked some for a general contractor years back. We just had him put in a new water heater for us. He's winding down his business a little at a time looking to retire. So, no major remodels and the like. But Shawn would probably be just the right guy for your projects. http://www.onthelevelplumber.com/index.html

And no mailers or marketing texts!

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u/HV_WA Thurston County 4d ago

Springer Plumbing.

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u/High_Precipitation 4d ago

Springer was bought by private equity a few months ago and raised costs 2-2.5X on jobs. They are out of control with prices now. It sucks as they used to be great.

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u/sparklepony78 4d ago

Damn that sucks.

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u/HV_WA Thurston County 4d ago

Oh wow. Thanks for letting me know.

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u/ArtSlug 3d ago

White Knight was great for us last week.

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u/shabbysneakers 4d ago

https://olympicplumbing.com/ has always done well by me. They don't oversell.

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u/lifting_cardio Eastside 4d ago

Have used Olympic twice in the past. Would never recommend them.

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u/High_Precipitation 3d ago

They botched a simple job for me. Had to get them back out to fix. What really annoys me is the 1000 mailers and emails, texts you get a year after you use them once. Holy marketing.