Licensed plumbers for Tigard homes and buildings, with a written price before work starts and a 1-year workmanship warranty.
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Washington County Response
6920 NE 42nd Ave
Oregon and Washington
29 Years of Excellence
Every Project, Guaranteed
The same crews, the same license and the same warranty, for a split level off Main Street and a storm system behind an OR-217 property.
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.
Facility emergencies do not happen on a convenient schedule. Whether it’s a burst pipe flooding a multifamily complex at 2 AM, a collapsed sewer line halting industrial operations, rapid intervention is essential. Lovett Services provides a prompt 24-hour emergency response for commercial properties in Tigard.
With our dedicated fleet and advanced equipment, you never have to scramble for a vendor when urgent issues arise. One call dispatches our expert mitigation, plumbing, or vac truck teams to secure your property immediately, extract water, and begin stabilization.
We focus on halting the damage swiftly to reduce your total restoration costs and limit business interruption. By managing the entire project lifecycle: from emergency response through final site cleanup, we deliver the accountability and peace of mind that Tigard property managers and facility directors depend on.
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.
A main line that backs up more than once. Downtown and Metzger houses from the 1960s and 1970s have cast iron stacks and older laterals, and a repeating backup in that stock is almost always a pipe condition rather than a one-off obstruction. The camera goes in first. You see the footage yourself, you find out what the pipe is and where the fault sits, and only then does anyone talk about scope.
A licensed technician, a truck stocked for the common failures, floor protection down before anything is carried through the house. Diagnosis first, written options second, work third. If we find something that was not on the ticket, you hear about it before it is touched. You get the reasoning behind the recommendation, not just the recommendation.
Every completed job carries a one-year workmanship warranty, with the covered and not-covered terms set out on the warranty page rather than left to interpretation. Permitted work also leaves an inspection record, which is worth having when a Tigard house sells and a buyer's inspector asks what happened to the galvanized and when.
Tigard is roughly ten miles southwest of the Lovett yard in Portland, inside the normal daily routing rather than a special trip. The office books your scheduled work Monday to Friday, 7:00am to 5:00pm. Dispatch runs 24 hours for the things that cannot wait: an active leak, sewage backing up into your house, a water heater that has failed.
Operating in Tigard requires a deep understanding of local infrastructure, Washington County regulations, and the unique logistical challenges of busy commercial corridors like Pacific Highway (99W). Whether we’re updating storm water facilities near the Tualatin River or conducting extensive pipe bursting for a commercial plaza, Lovett Services brings localized expertise to every job site.
We are highly experienced in scheduling complex projects around your peak business hours to ensure safe access and minimal disruption to your tenants, employees, and customers. From navigating local permitting requirements to adapting to the specific architectural layouts of Tigard’s commercial and industrial parks, we handle the administrative and operational heavy lifting so you do not have to. Our local crews are deeply familiar with Tigard’s development services requirements and maintain strong working relationships with Washington County utility jurisdictions.
Facility emergencies do not happen on a convenient schedule. Whether it’s a burst pipe flooding a multifamily complex at 2 AM, a kitchen drain backup disrupting a restaurant’s dinner service, or a collapsed sewer line halting industrial operations, Lovett Services provides a prompt 24-hour emergency response for commercial properties in Tigard. One call dispatches our expert mitigation, plumbing, or vac truck teams to secure your property immediately, extract water, and begin stabilization, focusing on halting the damage swiftly to reduce your total restoration costs.
We serve Tigard and Washington County. 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 burst pipe in a Tigard multifamily complex or a collapsed sewer at a commercial plaza along Pacific Highway.
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
Tigard packs a lot of variation into ten square miles. A 1960s downtown, an unincorporated pocket in the middle, a creek corridor along the low ground and a mountain built out thirty years later. Each of those carries its own pipe materials, its own soil behavior and in one case its own permitting authority. Here is what changes as you move across the city.
Tigard incorporated in 1961 and the downtown Main Street area filled in over the following two decades with split levels and ranches. The supply material of that period is galvanized steel, which corrodes inward. The zinc coating fails, the steel rusts, and the rust builds toward the center until the pipe is carrying a fraction of its original flow. The symptoms arrive in order. Pressure falls first, usually worst at the fixture furthest from the meter. Discoloured water in the first draw of the morning comes second. A leak, if it comes, comes last. That order is useful, because it means there is time to plan a repipe rather than react to one.
The drain side of a 1960s Tigard house is cast iron. Cast iron fails differently from galvanized: rather than closing up, the interior wall roughens, and a rough wall grabs what a smooth wall would have carried away. Grease films on, scale builds on the grease, and paper catches on the scale. What the household notices is a line that clogs, gets cleared, behaves for a few months and then clogs in exactly the same spot. Cabling cuts a channel through it. High pressure water scours the whole diameter back to the pipe wall. On a repeating Tigard backup, jetting is usually what breaks the cycle, and a camera run tells us first whether the pipe is sound enough to take it.
Metzger is central Tigard geographically and unincorporated Washington County jurisdictionally. It also shares the 1960s and 1970s housing profile of downtown, so it has the same galvanized and cast iron inventory. The difference is administrative and it is not trivial. Permitted work at a Metzger address goes through Washington County rather than the City of Tigard Building Services Permit Center. That affects sewer repairs, party sewer line separations and whole house repipes. We resolve the jurisdiction against the address up front so the permit does not become the thing that delays the job.
Fanno Creek runs through Tigard with a regional trail alongside it, and the low ground near the creek carries a seasonal high water table. Saturated soil acts on a buried line from the outside in. Groundwater enters through cracks and open joints, so a lateral that is perfectly adequate in August starts running sluggish in February with no change in what your household is sending down it. It also keeps crawlspaces damp and makes sump systems cycle harder than they were sized for. On a low-lying Tigard address, the season the symptom appears in is genuine diagnostic information. Tell the dispatcher when it started and the problem narrows before the crew arrives.
Older neighborhoods across the Portland area were laid with clay tile or Orangeburg laterals, and both of those have joints that tree roots find. Root intrusion is the single most common reason a main line backs up more than once rather than once. There is no way to know which material is under a given Tigard driveway without looking, so a main line call starts with a camera and not a quote. The footage shows the pipe material, joint condition, any belly holding standing water, and where the fault sits relative to the house and the street. The repair scope follows from what is on the screen.
Bull Mountain occupies the southwest corner of Tigard, reaches 715 feet and was built out in the 1990s and 2000s. Those houses were plumbed in copper or PEX, so supply pipe is not the issue up there. Elevation is what makes the hillside different. Static pressure varies with height across a water system, so pressure regulation matters more on a slope than it does on flat ground, and a pressure reducing valve that has drifted out of adjustment will quietly shorten the life of every fixture and appliance in the house. Drain and sewer lines on sloped lots are also longer and more sensitive to settlement than the short straight runs downtown.
The Summerlake and Scholls area sits in northwest Tigard around Summerlake Park. Newer stock in Tigard, like newer stock anywhere, shifts the service pattern away from pipe and onto equipment. Tank water heaters run roughly eight to twelve years before the shell becomes the weak point, and the ones installed with the original house are past that now. Anode rods deplete without producing a symptom. Shut-off valves seize from never being turned, which is discovered at the worst possible moment. Tankless units need periodic descaling. None of it is urgent, and all of it is easier on a schedule than on a Sunday.
Tigard’s commercial mass sits against OR-217 and the I-5 edge, with Washington Square anchoring the retail end. Property of that kind produces a call list houses never do: kitchen drain lines under food service tenants, catch basins and storm lines spread across acres of parking that cannot be dug up during trading hours, and domestic water risers in multi-tenant shells where one shutoff takes out several businesses at once. Utility conduit that has to cross beneath a live drive aisle, which is exactly the job horizontal directional drilling exists for. The vac trucks, jetters and drills that answer those calls are the same fleet working residential streets a mile away.
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We serve Tigard and Washington County. We also serve these nearby communities:
Yes, we offer rapid 24-hour emergency plumbing response for commercial, industrial, and multifamily properties throughout Tigard. Our team is available around the clock to handle everything from burst pipes and backed-up sewer mains to severe drain backups, ensuring your property is secured quickly.
Absolutely. Lovett Services holds and is fully licensed, bonded, and insured to operate across Oregon. We frequently handle complex public works preparation, sanitary sewer rehabilitation, ADA-compliant concrete work, and PGE-certified power conduit installations for municipalities.
Yes, our advanced vacuum and thermal excavation trucks are heavily equipped for demanding commercial and industrial needs. We routinely perform utility potholing, confined space entry preparation, catch basin cleaning, and storm filter maintenance for industrial properties in the area.
We work closely with property managers to schedule preventative maintenance and drain cleaning services during off-peak hours whenever possible. Our technicians work with total efficiency and professionalism, ensuring work areas are kept clean, secure, and clearly marked to protect your tenants’ daily experience.
Yes, we guarantee absolute peace of mind by backing our workmanship with a 1-Year Warranty. We hold our teams strictly accountable to high quality standards, backed by our commitment to providing 5-star service 100% of the time.
Washington County. Metzger is an unincorporated pocket of the county sitting inside Tigard, so despite being surrounded by city, permitted work at a Metzger address files with Washington County rather than the City of Tigard Building Services Permit Center. That applies to sewer repairs, party sewer line separations and whole house repipes. We check the jurisdiction against the exact address before scheduling, pull the permit, and stay with the job through inspection.
Yes, and the difference is handled on our side rather than yours. We confirm which authority owns each address, file accordingly, and put the permit number and issuing authority in the documentation so your file is accurate per property rather than per portfolio. That detail matters more than it sounds when someone later needs to prove that a sewer repair at a specific building was permitted and inspected.
That is the classic galvanized steel signature. Tigard grew fast through the 1960s and 1970s and galvanized was the standard supply material then, so the pipe in a house from that era is around sixty years old. Galvanized corrodes from the inside, so the bore narrows well before anything leaks. Pressure goes first, color goes second. A technician can usually confirm it by eye at the exposed runs in the garage or crawlspace, and the fix is a repipe in PEX or copper.
Usually not. Low ground near Fanno Creek carries a seasonal high water table, and when the soil saturates, groundwater enters buried lines through cracks and open joints. The line is then carrying groundwater on top of normal household flow, which shows up as winter sluggishness that disappears in the dry months. A camera run during the wet season finds the infiltration points directly. Telling us which season the symptom belongs to narrows the diagnosis before anyone arrives.
Because something structural is there. In older Portland-area neighborhoods that is most often tree roots getting in through the joints of a clay tile or Orangeburg lateral. Cabling cuts a channel through a root mass and restores flow, which is why the line runs fine for a few months, and then the roots grow back through the same joint. Camera first to confirm the material and the location, then either a jetting program on a defined cadence or a repair of the failing section. Both are legitimate answers. Which one is right depends on how much pipe is involved.
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
M–F 7am–5pm
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