Licensed plumbers for Lake Oswego homes and buildings, with a written price before work starts and a 1-year workmanship warranty.
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Rapid Commercial Response
South Metro Portland
Oregon and Washington
29 Years of Excellence
Every Project, Guaranteed
Drain cleaning and hydro jetting, water heaters, repiping, sewer line repair, camera inspection, backflow testing, excavation, vac truck work and 24/7 emergency response, all from one licensed contractor that has worked this side of the Willamette since 1997.
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.
A burst pipe, backed-up sewer line, or sudden structural leak does not wait for standard business hours. Ignoring these issues, even for a few hours, can quickly lead to extensive structural damage, severe operational downtime, and potential health code violations.
Lovett Services provides rapid, round-the-clock emergency plumbing response and prompt water damage assessments for commercial and industrial properties throughout Lake Oswego. With one single call, our mitigation and plumbing crews are dispatched to your facility. We systematically extract standing water, accurately diagnose and repair the underlying plumbing failure, and begin full-scale commercial property restoration.
By acting as a single-source emergency vendor, we eliminate the need for property managers to juggle multiple contractors during a crisis, ensuring a faster, more accountable recovery process that prioritizes asset protection.
Crews deployed around the clock for commercial emergencies. No waiting until morning.
Plumbing, excavation, mitigation, vac truck. One dispatcher, one team, one call.
Licensed in Oregon and fully insured for all commercial, civil, and mitigation work.
Every project backed by our guarantee: if it fails within a year, we fix it free.
The mechanism above is the same on every property in this city. What changes for a house is who is standing there while the work happens, and how the job gets signed off.
Slow drains that clear and come back within a few months, on a lot with any slope to it. One fixture is local. Two or more together is your main line, and on a hillside that usually means a belly, a settled joint or roots. You get the line scoped before you get a quote.
A licensed technician, shoe covers and drop cloths inside, and the cleanout located before anything is opened. You see the camera screen while we are in the line, not a description of it afterwards. The work area is left clean and we tell you what we found in plain terms.
Your water heater replacement, repipe, sewer lateral or new water service needs a permit from the City of Lake Oswego. Lovett pulls it, books the inspection, and you get the closed permit. It matters more than most people expect at the point your house goes on the market.
Lake Oswego is six to seven miles from the Lovett yard, so your planned work books into normal hours and emergencies go through 24/7 dispatch. If water is running now, shut your main off first, then call 971-204-8148. Everything you book carries a one year workmanship warranty.
Working in Lake Oswego requires more than just heavy machinery: it requires an acute understanding of local building codes, strict environmental standards, and the high expectations of local tenants and business owners. Our team provides professional design consultation and public works preparation to ensure strict compliance with Lake Oswego’s specific municipal regulations.
Because many local commercial properties, retail centers, and upscale multifamily communities near Oswego Lake feature high-end landscaping and dense, established infrastructure, we heavily utilize trenchless technology. Our horizontal directional drilling and advanced pipe bursting capabilities allow us to perform major sanitary sewer rehabilitation and water line repairs without tearing up parking lots, roadways, or green spaces. This localized approach protects the aesthetic value of your property while keeping sidewalks clear and businesses accessible during major infrastructure upgrades.
A burst pipe, backed-up sewer line, or sudden structural leak does not wait for standard business hours. Lovett Services provides rapid, round-the-clock emergency plumbing response and prompt water damage assessments for commercial and industrial properties throughout Lake Oswego. With one single call, our mitigation and plumbing crews are dispatched to your facility, systematically extracting standing water, diagnosing and repairing the underlying failure, and beginning full-scale commercial property restoration to prioritize asset protection.
We serve Lake Oswego and the surrounding Portland metro area. We also serve these nearby communities:
When a critical system fails, every minute matters. Our 24/7 dispatch model means fully equipped technicians arrive fast: a pipe burst in a Lake Oswego condominium community or a collapsed sewer at a Clackamas County retail center.
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. 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
Most plumbing failures in this city trace back to one of three things: the slope, the canopy, or the decade your house was built. Lake Oswego has all three working at once, which is why a line that was cabled clear last winter is often blocked again by spring. The seven conditions below are the ones Lovett crews meet here week after week, and the reason you get a camera first and a quote second.
A sewer lateral is designed to fall at a steady grade. On the hillside lots that make up most of Lake Oswego, the ground under that pipe keeps moving, slowly and unevenly, for decades after the house is finished. The result is a belly: a section that has settled below grade and now holds standing water instead of carrying it. Solids drop out in the low spot, the line narrows from the bottom up, and the backups get closer together every year. Cabling opens a channel through the deposit and buys a season. A camera with a locator tells you where the belly sits and how deep, which is the only way to price the actual fix.
The mature evergreen canopy over Westridge, Mountain Park and the older hillside streets is the single biggest source of recurring main line backups we see in this city. Roots do not break into sound pipe. They find joints, and older clay tile laterals are all joints. A hairline gap at a coupling is enough for fine roots to enter, thicken and build the mesh that catches everything coming down the line. Cutting them with a cable clears the blockage and leaves the root mass alive at the joint. Hydro jetting scours the full pipe diameter instead of boring a hole through the middle, and on a root prone line an annual cleaning is what stops the cycle.
Houses built here through the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s are now carrying supply pipe that is fifty to seventy years old. Galvanized steel corrodes from the inside out, which is why the symptom is never a leak at first: it is falling pressure, a slow fill on the tub, and rust colored water on the first draw of the morning. Older copper in the same era can start producing recurring pinhole leaks. Neither condition improves. We repipe in PEX or copper depending on the house and what the owner prefers, and a whole house repipe typically runs a few days depending on size and access.
Not all of Lake Oswego is on a hill. The low ground near the lake and along the Willamette carries a seasonally high water table, and that changes two things. Groundwater presses against foundations and basements through the wet months, which is where sump pump systems stop being optional, and saturated soil around a buried lateral accelerates settlement and joint separation. A sump pump that has not been tested since it was installed is the most common failure we find on a low lying property, and the test takes minutes. The wet season is the wrong time to discover the float is stuck.
First Addition sits next to the lakefront and downtown and holds some of the oldest housing in the city alongside mid century infill. Small lots and close set houses mean your sewer lateral often runs under a driveway, a mature planting bed or a shared side yard, and there is rarely room to swing a machine. That is where trenchless replacement earns its cost: pipe bursting pulls a new line along the existing route through two small pits instead of opening the whole run. When a full open cut is genuinely the only option, you hear it before the work starts rather than halfway through.
Lake Oswego runs its own building department, so plumbing permits for work inside the city go to the City of Lake Oswego rather than Clackamas County. That matters on any job with a permit attached: a water heater replacement, a repipe, a sewer lateral replacement, or a new water service. Lovett pulls the permit, schedules the inspection, and hands you the closed permit at the end. A homeowner selling a house and a property manager closing out a capital item both need the same thing, which is a paper trail that survives review.
Access is a real cost driver in this city and it is worth talking about before a truck is dispatched to your address. Steep driveways, retaining walls, narrow shared lanes and mature landscaping all limit what can physically reach the work. The approach gets sized to your site: a vac truck and hydro excavation where the ground is tight or utilities are congested, a compact machine where a full excavator cannot turn, and trenchless methods where opening the route would mean rebuilding a slope. Knowing which of those applies is what a site visit is for, and it is why the crew looks before you get a price.
Serving the PNW
Emergency Service
Workmanship Warranty
We serve Lake Oswego and the surrounding Portland metro area. We also serve these nearby communities:
Yes, we offer rapid 24-hour emergency plumbing response for residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, and multifamily properties in Lake Oswego. We handle everything from complete water service repairs and leak detection to clearing backed-up main sewer lines.
Absolutely. Our horizontal directional drilling services allow us to install power conduit, water lines, and communication sleeves under roads, driveways, and landscaping without the need for open-cut trenching. This minimizes surface disruption, preserves property aesthetics, and vastly reduces traffic impact.
We serve a wide range of properties from multifamily apartments, commercial retail spaces, industrial facilities, and municipal buildings to single-family residential homes. Our team works with property managers, facility operators, and homeowners throughout the Lake Oswego area.
We offer prompt 24-hour emergency response for water damage assessments. Our mitigation team arrives with powerful water extraction equipment and advanced structural drying tools to halt water intrusion, prevent mold growth, and restore your commercial property as quickly as possible.
Yes, our team is highly experienced with navigating local permitting, professional design consultation, and public works preparation. We ensure all commercial site work, trenching, grading, and ADA-compliant concrete work fully meets Lake Oswego municipal standards and environmental regulations.
The City of Lake Oswego Building Department does. Lake Oswego runs its own building department rather than routing permits through Clackamas County, which is worth knowing if you have worked in a neighboring city and expected the county process. We pull the permit, schedule the inspection and hand over the closed record at the end of the job. That applies to water heater replacements, repipes, sewer lateral work and new water services.
On a sloped lot it is usually a belly or a settled joint rather than a simple clog. The ground under a lateral keeps moving for decades, and a section that drops below grade holds water instead of carrying it. Solids settle in the low spot and the line closes from the bottom up. Cabling opens a channel through the deposit, which is why it clears and then recurs on a cycle. A camera with a locator shows the low point and its depth, and that is the information a real repair is priced from.
Yes, and in the older neighborhoods under heavy canopy they are the most common cause of repeat main line backups. Roots do not break sound pipe. They enter at joints, and older clay tile laterals are almost entirely joints. Once fine roots are inside they thicken into a mesh that catches everything moving down the line. Hydro jetting scours the full pipe diameter rather than cutting a channel through the mass, and on a root prone line a cleaning about once a year is what breaks the pattern.
Age matters less than material and symptoms. Galvanized steel supply, common in pre-1970 houses, corrodes from the inside and shows up as falling pressure and rust colored water on the first draw. Older copper can start producing recurring pinhole leaks. Polybutylene, the gray or blue flexible plastic installed from roughly the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, fails at fittings. Any of those three is a reason to talk about a repipe. We use PEX or copper, and a whole house repipe usually takes a few days depending on size and access.
In most cases yes. Where the valving allows it, the crew isolates at the branch rather than the building, and the disruptive phases get staged into after hours and weekend windows. You get notice text to circulate before the crew arrives so your tenants are not surprised. On a lateral replacement under a drive lane or parking area, trenchless pipe bursting pulls the new line along the existing route through two small pits, which keeps your access open instead of closing it for days.
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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6920 NE 42nd Ave
Portland, OR 97218
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