Midtown Plumbing Company is a commercial plumber serving Ventura County restaurants, retail centers, offices, industrial sites, and managed properties. Buildings here fight hard water scale, salt air on the coast, clay soil inland, and sewer lines older than most tenants.
A closed restroom or a dead water heater costs you revenue by the hour. Owner Shawn Girt holds CSLB license #1126558 and brings 15 years of plumbing experience. Call (805) 765-3995 to schedule commercial service.
Most commercial plumbing contractors in the county sub out excavation, boring, and trenchless work. We run an in-house hydrovac trailer, pneumatic boring equipment, and pipe splitting gear. When your sewer or water line fails under a parking lot, one company locates, digs, repairs, and restores. You manage one vendor and one invoice.
Shawn Girt answers for every job. Property managers and HOA boards get an acknowledgment of normal requests within one business day, and emergencies get priority at once. On larger projects, you receive a clear scope and price, notice of unforeseen conditions or change orders before any extra work starts, and photo and video documentation. Your file shows what we found, what we fixed, and what to budget for next.
We answer the phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We schedule drain jetting, water shutoffs, and heater swaps before opening, after closing, or on your slow day.
Midtown Plumbing Company has served Ventura County since 2023 from 3800 Market St in Ventura. Shawn has 15 years in the trade. We carry bond and insurance, send a certificate of insurance on request, and hold a 4.9-star rating from local customers.
Kitchen lines clog with grease. Restroom lines clog with paper towels and wipes. Floor drains in shops and warehouses fill with grit. A cable machine pokes a hole through the clog, and the line backs up again. Hydro jetting scours the full pipe wall with pressurized water and clears the buildup. We put high-use kitchen lines on a jetting schedule, so the backup never reaches your dining room. See our drain cleaning service for details.
Every sewer job starts with a camera. We are NASSCO certified, so the inspection follows a standardized grading format instead of one plumber’s opinion of what the camera shows. You get the footage plus a documented report of defects and pipe condition, which gives you a consistent record to track changes over time. Older properties across the county run on clay sewer lines, and we find Orangeburg pipe on occasion. From there, we repair a spot by hydro excavation, replace a section, or replace the line by pipe splitting under your slab or parking lot. Learn more about sewer line repair and replacement.
Most sewer emergencies give warning first. Routine camera inspections, with hydro jetting and descaling when the pipe calls for them, find root intrusion, buildup, scaling, offsets, cracks, and separated joints before they turn into recurring backups or a failed line. Each inspection uses the same NASSCO grading, so this year’s report compares directly against last year’s. Boards and property managers use those reports to plan maintenance and capital improvements on a schedule, with a budget, instead of paying emergency rates after a failure. See our HOA and multi-family plumbing services.
We install and repair customer-side gas piping for commercial kitchens, water heaters, boilers, rooftop units, generators, and patio heaters. Each job gets a load calculation, a permit, a pressure test, and a city inspection. Underground gas runs get exposed with water and vacuum, never a backhoe bucket.
Restaurants, gyms, salons, and hotels run water heaters far harder than a home does. Hard water in Ventura County packs scale into tanks and heat exchangers, and recovery time drops until the dish machine runs cold. We repair and replace tank, tankless, and high-input commercial units, and we flush and descale on a schedule. See water heater repair and replacement.
A water bill jump, a warm spot on the floor, or a wet wall between suites points to a hidden leak. We pinpoint the leak before we open anything, then repair or reroute the line. Details on our slab leak detection and repair page.
Galvanized steel and thin-wall copper from the 1960s through the 1980s are failing across the county. We repair bursts, replace corroded sections, and repipe buildings in phases, so tenants stay open. For buried services, we offer trenchless water line replacement.
Our hydrovac trailer exposes water, gas, and sewer lines without damage. We also provide utility potholing for contractors and underground boring under driveways, sidewalks, and parking lots.
Sewage on the floor, no water to the building, or a gas smell means you close until the problem is fixed. We answer the phone 24 hours a day and prioritize emergency calls the moment they come in. See 24/7 emergency plumbing.
The age of the building tells us what pipe to expect. Older properties run on clay sewer lines, cast iron drains, and galvanized water piping. The neighborhood tells us what the ground, the water, and the air are doing to the pipe.
Office parks and medical suites from the 1970s and 1980s sit on copper lines carrying hard water. Pinhole leaks show up above ceilings and inside shared walls.
Food processors, cold storage, and distribution centers along Rice Avenue and Fifth Street run high-volume drains and large water services, and downtime stops a production line. Shallow groundwater on the Oxnard Plain complicates every underground repair. Older storefronts on Oxnard Boulevard and Saviers Road still drain through original clay laterals.
Historic downtown blocks hold brick buildings from the 1900s through the 1920s. Properties outside city sewer boundaries run on septic systems, and a busy restaurant or inn overloads a tank sized for a house.
Restaurants operate in buildings from the early 1900s, with cast iron drains under slab and laterals shared between storefronts. One tenant's grease becomes the neighbor's backup. Camera the line before you sign a restaurant lease here.
Salt air corrodes rooftop gas piping, water heater vents, and exposed copper faster than the same materials inland. Coated pipe, stainless fasteners, and yearly inspections pay off.
Most of the county's rain falls between December and March. Parking lot drains and roof leaders packed with leaves and silt send water into storefronts. Storm water leaks into cracked sewer laterals and pushes sewage back through floor drains. Book drain jetting and a camera check in October or November.
Expansive clay moves under slabs through wet winters and dry summers. Under-slab drain lines in retail and restaurant pads crack at joints and hold water. Old Town buildings along Ventura Boulevard carry decades of patchwork plumbing.
Reference rates for underground work: hydro excavation runs $300 per hour with a 2-hour minimum, or $1,200 for a half day. Trenchless water line replacement generally runs $125 to $150 per linear foot for a straight pull, and closer to $200 per foot for deep or hard-to-reach lines with several changes in direction. Trenchless gas line replacement generally runs $150 to $225 per linear foot. Length, depth, pipe size, soil, access, utility conflicts, permits, and testing set the final price.
Scheduled maintenance costs less than emergencies. One Friday night backup in a full restaurant costs more in comped meals and lost tables than a year of quarterly jetting.
Tell us what failed, where, and when you need the building back in service. For planned work, send photos or plans and we will schedule a site walk.
Commercial systems use larger pipe, higher water demand, grease and floor drains, multi-story stacks, and stricter code and health department rules. The plumber also works around business hours, tenants, and property managers. Ask any contractor which commercial properties they service now.
Most full-service kitchens need hydro jetting every three to six months. High-volume fryer operations need service more often. A camera inspection after the first jetting tells us the right interval for your line.
Yes. HOA and managed property work is a core part of our business. We acknowledge normal requests within one business day, provide written scopes, photo and video documentation, and certificates of insurance. See our HOA and multi-family plumbing services.
Yes. We schedule planned work before opening, after closing, or on weekends. Emergency service runs 24 hours a day.
Midtown Plumbing Company serves commercial properties in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Ojai, Santa Paula, Fillmore, and Carpinteria from our shop at 3800 Market St in Ventura. Call (805) 765-3995.
3800 Market St B, Ventura, CA 93003
California Contractor License #1126558. Licensed, bonded, and insured.
Open 24 hours, Monday through Sunday.
Service areas: Ventura | Midtown Ventura | Oxnard | Camarillo | Ojai | Santa Paula | Fillmore | Thousand Oaks | Simi Valley | Moorpark | Carpinteria
