Licensed plumbers for Camas homes and buildings, with a written price before work starts and a 1-year workmanship warranty.
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The same list covers a clay lateral under a downtown street and a kitchen drain line behind a Camas restaurant. One crew, one number, one Washington license.
Rooter service, high-pressure jetting, sewer camera inspection, and preventative maintenance programs.
Repair and replacement for tank, tankless and heat pump units. Permit pulled, seismic strapping, expansion tank and venting all done to Oregon code.
Installation, repair, maintenance, leak detection, and water service. Includes backflow testing and sump pump service. Licensed plumbers available 24/7.
Site work, grading, trenching, sewer rehab, pipe bursting, concrete, and demolition.
Hydro excavation, stormwater maintenance, debris extraction, waste removal, and confined space support.
Spot repairs, full lateral replacement, and trenchless options that skip the trench.
PEX and copper replacement for galvanized, polybutylene and failing copper supply.
HDD, trenchless conduit installation. PGE Certified. .75” to 24”+.
Emergency extraction, structural drying, mold remediation, and restoration.
Faucets, toilets, sinks, tub hardware and the pipe behind them.
Commercial property emergencies do not wait for standard business hours, and ignoring an issue can cause serious, irreversible damage to your building. Lovett Services provides a rapid 24-hour emergency response for commercial and industrial properties across Camas.
If you’re dealing with a collapsed sewer line in the middle of the night, a failed sump pump during a severe storm, or require immediate water extraction following a major pipe burst, our fully equipped fleets are ready to dispatch. One call guarantees you receive 5-star service and professional mitigation to prevent further damage to your building.
We arrive on-site with the necessary equipment to assess the situation, stabilize the environment, and implement an immediate action plan to protect your assets.
Crews deployed around the clock for commercial emergencies. No waiting until morning.
Plumbing, excavation, mitigation, vac truck. One dispatcher, one team, one call.
Fully licensed, bonded, and insured for commercial, civil, and mitigation work in Washington state.
Every project backed by our guarantee: if it fails within a year, we fix it free.
Downtown or post-1990, the two halves of Camas produce two different lists.
Downtown, in the pre-1940 block, it is slow drains that come back every autumn, pressure that has faded over years, and laterals worth putting a camera down. In the post-1990 neighborhoods it is water heaters, disposals, hose bibs and fixtures, plus identifying 1990s supply material before it becomes a question.
A named, background-checked technician, shoe covers on, and a camera or a pressure gauge on the system before anything gets cut. You hear what was found, what needs doing now, what can wait a season, and what it costs, before work begins.
Camas is roughly 18 to 20 miles northeast of our Portland yard, I-205 north and then SR-14 east. Routine work books into a scheduled window. No hot water, a burst supply line or sewage backing up goes to 24/7 dispatch.
Every repair and installation you book carries a 1-year workmanship warranty. If something Lovett installed fails inside that year, the crew comes back and puts it right. The warranty page spells out what is covered and what is not before you book, not after.
Operating in Camas requires a deep understanding of Pacific Northwest weather patterns, local Clark County regulations, and the unique mix of historic downtown buildings and modern industrial parks. Our team is highly familiar with regional building codes, ensuring that every excavation, plumbing repair, and directional drilling project meets strict local standards.
Because of the heavy seasonal rainfall in the region, managing storm water facilities is a critical demand for Camas property managers. We help local businesses ensure proper catch basin maintenance and storm filter cartridge replacement well before the rainy season begins, preventing costly flooding and structural damage. Whether we’re executing a complex directional drilling project near local waterways or dispatching a vac truck for municipal utility potholing, our materials, methods, and equipment are specifically chosen to excel in the local environment.
Commercial property emergencies do not wait for standard business hours, and ignoring an issue can cause serious, irreversible damage to your building. If you’re dealing with a collapsed sewer line in the middle of the night, a failed sump pump during a severe storm, or require immediate water extraction following a major pipe burst, our fully equipped fleets are ready to dispatch. One call guarantees you receive 5-star service and professional mitigation to prevent further damage to your Camas property.
We serve Camas and Clark County. Our service area extends throughout the PNW. Nearby communities we also serve:
When a critical system fails, every minute matters. Our 24/7 dispatch model means fully equipped technicians arrive fast: a sewer line collapse at a Camas industrial park or a pipe burst flooding a multifamily complex during a winter storm.
From the initial emergency repair through water damage mitigation to final site cleanup, one accountable team manages the entire project lifecycle. No juggling multiple vendors. No communication gaps.
Fully licensed, bonded, and insured for Washington State commercial work. We stand behind every project with a full 1-year warranty. Exceptional construction and maintenance backed by a commitment to your total peace of mind.
Real reviews from property managers and business owners across the Pacific Northwest.
“These guys were extraordinary, Gary and his crew worked through the night to restore water and sewage to 26 homes. A dedicated crew that didn’t clock out until every house was up and running.”
Columbia Way West
“We use Lovett often, always calling when we’re in a pinch. The team always steps up. Ken and Andrew always come through, 100% of the time. There is nothing these guys can’t do.”
Multi-Family Property Owner
“As a facilities professional it’s always a pleasure to work with contractors who know their business. Charges were in line with expectations and the quality was first rate. An outstanding choice.”
Facilities Professional
Camas is a small city with an unusually wide range of plumbing problems, because it holds a genuine pre-war downtown, a large post-1990 residential build-out, and a heavy clean-process industrial base all at once. These eight topics cover what changes between them.
The historic center of Camas grew up around the paper mill, built to house mill employees and the businesses serving them, and it still holds the oldest plumbing in the city. About 10.7 percent of Camas housing predates 1940, the highest pre-1940 share of any Clark County town Lovett serves. Downtown also has a long habit of investing in itself: local business owners proposed a coordinated beautification program, Operation 4-Sight, back in 1964. If your building is of that vintage, expect galvanized supply and clay tile laterals until a camera and a gauge say otherwise.
Roughly 70 percent of Camas housing was built from 1990 onward, and that share is probably understated because the census estimates behind it lag a fast-growing city. In that stock the supply is copper, PEX or PVC and the drains are ABS or PVC, so repiping is rarely the answer. The work is fixtures, water heaters, garbage disposals, hose bibs, drain cleaning and backflow assembly testing, plus the slow accumulation problems that show up once a house passes fifteen or twenty years of ordinary use.
About 19 percent of Camas housing was built in the 1990s, which places it in the tail of the polybutylene supply era. Polybutylene was used widely before it was withdrawn, and it fails at fittings and under sustained chlorine exposure rather than on a predictable schedule. The correct response is not a preemptive repipe. It is to open one accessible point, identify what is actually installed, and then decide. A ten-minute look under a sink answers a question that otherwise sits in the back of a homeowner’s mind for years.
The City of Camas water system runs on 10 groundwater wells, nine of them near the Washougal River and one in Grass Valley, feeding 8 reservoirs and a treatment plant in the Jones and Boulder watershed area, across more than 162 miles of pipeline serving about 9,000 utility accounts and roughly 23,500 people. That matters because Portland’s Bull Run supply is surface water with its own chemistry, and none of it transfers across the river. We do not publish hardness or scaling claims for Camas. If water chemistry is relevant to your equipment, the current City of Camas water quality report is the document to read.
Camas runs its own Class IV wastewater treatment plant, rated at 6.10 million gallons per day, originally built in 1972 and modified since, taking a combination of domestic and industrial wastewater and discharging treated effluent to the Columbia River. For a facilities team that combination is the point: a small city plant carrying industrial load pays close attention to what arrives at it. What goes down a kitchen or process drain gets scrutiny here, and keeping those lines jetted on a schedule costs far less than explaining a discharge exceedance after the fact.
The City of Camas Building Division issues the permits and enforces the International Building Code along with the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the State of Washington. A submittal takes two sets of construction drawings, two site plans and proof of ownership, and permit fees, plan review fees, impact fees and system development charges are all paid before issuance. On a commercial project those charges are a real line item and they land before work starts, so we put them in front of you during the bid rather than after the award.
For its size, Camas is unusually industrial. The Georgia-Pacific mill is the historic anchor: established in 1883 when Henry Pittock’s LaCamas Colony Company bought 2,600 acres, producing the first wood pulp made in the Pacific Northwest by 1885, and at one point in its history the second largest paper mill in the world. In 2018 it shut its pulp operation and all but one paper machine and cut to roughly 150 workers, and Georgia-Pacific is now running a multi-year revitalization project removing buildings and equipment no longer needed for papermaking. Alongside it sits a semiconductor cluster: TSMC Washington, formerly WaferTech, on 260 acres, the first dedicated semiconductor contract manufacturer in the United States and renamed in December 2023, plus Analog Devices, which received a $300,000 state grant in 2024 to expand its Camas operations, and nLIGHT.
Prune Hill is a hillside residential area on the west side of the city, Lacamas Lake and Round Lake anchor the north and central edges, and the Washougal River runs along the east. On any sloped lot the service and drain runs get longer and the fall is less forgiving, which is where bellies, settlement at the transition and slow-draining branches tend to show up. We camera the full run rather than the first ten feet, because on a long sloped lateral the point that fails is almost never the point you can see from the cleanout.
Serving the PNW
Emergency Service
Workmanship Warranty
We serve Camas and Clark County. Our service area extends throughout the PNW. Nearby communities we also serve:
Yes, we offer rapid 24-hour emergency plumbing response specifically built for multifamily, commercial, and industrial properties in Camas. Our team works quickly to minimize tenant disruption, shut off compromised water sources, and implement permanent repairs to prevent property damage.
Horizontal directional drilling is a trenchless method for installing underground conduits, pipes, and utility lines without disturbing the surface. It is highly effective for Camas businesses that want to upgrade their infrastructure while avoiding the costly process of tearing up driveways, parking lots, or mature landscaping.
We provide prompt, round-the-clock emergency response for water damage assessments and extraction. Because ignored water issues quickly deteriorate building materials and promote mold growth, our mitigation team is dispatched immediately to begin advanced structural drying and moisture removal.
Absolutely. Our advanced vac trucks are equipped for heavy-duty tasks including commercial storm filter cartridge cleaning, catch basin maintenance, and tank or pit debris extraction. We regularly partner with industrial sites in Camas to maintain their storm water facilities and ensure local environmental compliance.
Yes. Lovett Services is fully licensed and bonded for commercial work in Washington State. Our team is highly familiar with Clark County regulations and local building codes, ensuring that every excavation, plumbing repair, and directional drilling project meets strict local standards.
Yes. Lovett holds Washington license LOVETEI995KQ alongside Oregon CCB #125507. Washington plumbing work also requires WA L&I plumber certification under Chapter 18.106 RCW, held by the individuals doing the work. An Oregon license by itself does not authorize plumbing in Clark County, so asking a Portland-based contractor for the Washington number is a fair and useful question.
The Camas Building Division enforces the International Building Code and the Uniform Plumbing Code as adopted by the State of Washington. A submittal takes two sets of construction drawings, two site plans and proof of ownership. Permit fees, plan review fees, impact fees and system development charges are all payable before the permit is issued, which on commercial work is a real cost line rather than an afterthought. We put those in the bid up front.
Worth checking, not worth worrying about. Around 19 percent of Camas housing was built in the 1990s, which falls in the tail of the polybutylene supply era, so some of that stock has it and some does not. It cannot be established from a build year alone. A technician can identify the actual supply material at an accessible point in a few minutes, and that answer is what decides if a repipe conversation is even relevant.
We do not publish a hardness figure for Camas, and any contractor who quotes you one off the top of their head is guessing. Camas water is groundwater from 10 city wells, nine of them near the Washougal River and one in Grass Valley, treated at a plant in the Jones and Boulder watershed area. It is a different source from Portland’s Bull Run surface water, so nothing about Portland water chemistry carries across the river. For a real number, the current City of Camas water quality report is the document to read.
On housing from the pre-1940 downtown block, the recurring seasonal backup usually traces to a clay tile lateral with root intrusion at the joints. Roots find the joints rather than breaking sound pipe, thicken through the growing season, and catch solids once flow slows. A camera inspection separates the two cases: a single affected joint, which cutting and jetting will handle for years, or a line that has lost shape, which puts trenchless replacement or an open cut on the table.
Tell us the property and what is happening. Dispatch reads every request and the right crew calls you back.
Read by our dispatch team, normally answered within one business day. For an active leak or backup, call 971-204-8148 instead.
971-204-8148. A live dispatcher answers 24/7, including weekends and holidays.
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