Our Services, Sewer & Underground Pipe, Northridge & the San Fernando Valley

BBC Rooter & Plumbing has worked on sewer and underground pipe in this valley for 35 years. Below is everything we do, what each service is actually for, and how to tell which one your problem needs.

Who we are and where we work

The shop is on Yolanda Avenue in Northridge, a few blocks off Nordhoff, and the trucks are loaded there every morning. Babak Behzadi started the company here and most of the laterals our crews have opened, scoped, jetted, lined and replaced over the years sit under Valley streets within half an hour of that yard.

That shapes what we know and what is on the truck. We can tell you which tracts were plumbed in vitrified clay and which got cast iron, which blocks have a city main deep enough to need a longer bursting pull, and which parkway trees generate most of the root calls on which streets. We stock liner in the diameters Valley laterals actually are, bursting heads for four-inch and six-inch clay, cable machines for interior branch lines, and a trailer jetter for main lines and commercial grease runs. A job that turns out to need more than a cable does not become a second visit next week.

Start here: what is the problem actually telling you?

Almost every sewer call starts the same way. Something is draining slowly, or not at all. The useful question is not "who do I call" but "is this a clog, a dirty pipe, or a broken pipe," because those three have very different prices. We follow the same path on every job.

The services

Sewer Line Repair & Replacement

The core of what we do. One broken section, or the whole run. Open trench where it makes sense, trenchless where it does not.

Repair and replacement ›

Trenchless Sewer Repair

Pipe lining and pipe bursting, which replace a line through small access pits instead of trenching your yard or driveway.

How trenchless works ›

Sewer Camera Inspection

Video of the inside of your line. Diagnosis before digging, and the pre-purchase scope every buyer of an older house should get.

Camera inspection ›

Hydrojetting

High-pressure water that scours the pipe walls back to bare pipe. The difference between a hole punched through a clog and a clean line.

Hydrojetting ›

Root Intrusion Removal

Cutting the roots out, then dealing with the joint that let them in. Otherwise you are booking the same job again next year.

Roots in the line ›

Drain & Sewer Cleaning

Rooter service and main line clogs. The fast, cheap fix when the pipe itself is still sound.

Drain cleaning ›

Grease Trap Cleaning

Restaurants and commercial kitchens. Scheduled grease line maintenance so the line never closes the kitchen at dinner service.

Grease lines ›

Emergency Sewer Service

Sewage backing up right now. Phone answered around the clock, camera and jetter on the same truck.

Emergency service ›

Whose pipe is it?

Who owns which pipe decides who pays, and it is the thing people get wrong most often. The pipe from your house to the city main is yours, all of it, including the part buried under the parkway strip in front of your house. The city owns the main in the street and nothing else.

So when a neighbour tells you the city will come fix it, they are usually thinking of the main. If the blockage is in your lateral, the city will look at it, confirm their main is clear, and leave. That visit is free and worth asking for, because it tells you which side of the line the problem is on before you pay anyone.

What we do not do

We are a sewer and underground pipe specialist, not a general plumber. We do not do water heaters, faucets, toilets, sinks, garbage disposals, water supply repiping, gas lines or new construction plumbing. If that is what you need, a general plumbing contractor is the right call and we will say so instead of taking the job.

What we do cover is everything below the ground: sewer mains and laterals, storm and area drains, cleanouts, root removal, jetting, camera work and excavation.

Public agencies and contractors

Cities, school districts and the prime contractors holding their on-call contracts have a separate section with our credentials, PACP-coded inspection deliverables and prevailing wage information. See Municipal & Public Works.