Midtown Plumbing Company handles the plumbing jobs other companies can’t or won’t take on: large underground repairs, trenchless line replacement, and complex multi-building issues across HOAs and property management portfolios in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, and the rest of Ventura County.
We work with several of the larger management companies in the area and typically get the call on the bigger or more technical jobs. Call 805-765-3995 to discuss your property’s plumbing needs.
Shawn Girt founded Midtown Plumbing in 2023, bringing 15 years of plumbing experience into the company, with a background centered on underground and specialty work rather than routine service calls.
Midtown Plumbing holds CSLB license #1126558, carries a 4.9-star rating, and is based at 3800 Market St B, Ventura, CA. The company is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, which matters when a shared line fails and affects multiple units at once.
We are not the lowest bid in Ventura County, and we don’t try to be. Management companies bring us projects where the scope, the depth, or the difficulty of the job calls for a crew that can run its own boring equipment and handle underground work in house, rather than a company built around fast, low-cost residential calls. If your last plumber told you a job needed to be subcontracted out, that’s usually the kind of job we take on directly.
Most HOA boards and property managers don’t shop for a plumber the way a homeowner does. There’s rarely a search happening in the moment. Instead, a board member checks a company out before signing off on a bid, or a new management company inherits a property and needs to vet the existing vendor list. That’s the moment this page is built for: giving someone doing due diligence a clear, specific answer instead of a generic services list.
Shared systems fail differently depending on where a property sits. Soil, groundwater, coastal exposure, and the age of a community’s original infrastructure all shape what an HOA is likely to run into.
Multi-unit properties built before 1970 across Midtown, Westside, and parts of Saticoy often run on original galvanized or cast iron supply and waste lines shared across several units. When one of these fails, it rarely affects just one resident. Established multi-family and senior communities like Seneca Gardens carry the kind of decades-old shared infrastructure that needs real underground expertise, not just a standard service call. Coastal properties near Pierpont and the harbor also see faster corrosion from salt air and salt-laden soil moisture, which shortens the working life of shared metal lines even further.
Oxnard’s flat coastal plain and history as agricultural land mean underground infrastructure at older properties, including sections of La Colonia and South Oxnard, often includes original piping and undocumented utility runs. Newer master-planned communities like RiverPark have fewer legacy issues, but shared systems at older multi-building complexes still need periodic underground attention, and the high water table across the city adds complexity to any excavation-based repair.
Neighborhoods in the Mission Oaks and Sycamore areas sit on clay soil that shifts with the seasons, which is a common cause of underground line breaks that show up as slab leaks or yard saturation with no obvious source. Camarillo is also home to some of the county’s largest HOA and retirement communities, and decades-old shared infrastructure at these larger properties requires the kind of underground expertise most residential plumbers don’t carry in house. A shared line break at a large, established community rarely stays contained to one building, which raises the stakes on getting the diagnosis right the first time.
A break under a shared parking lot or courtyard is one of the most disruptive issues an HOA can face, since it affects access and often requires coordination with the board before work starts. We plan these repairs around your property’s use, not just the fastest path to the pipe, and we favor trenchless methods wherever the line’s condition allows it, specifically to avoid closing a shared lot or tearing out landscaping the association maintains.
Whether you’re vetting a new vendor or reviewing an existing one, a few specifics separate a company built for HOA-scale work from one that primarily handles homeowner calls.
A multi-building HOA community in Ventura County experienced repeated slab leaks affecting two buildings. Property management needed to identify the underlying issue and address the affected water lines without creating unnecessary disruption for residents. Our team inspected the plumbing system, traced the recurring leaks, and identified seasonal soil movement as a contributing factor.
We developed a trenchless repair plan to replace the affected water line runs while limiting excavation across shared areas. The work helped address the recurring leaks and reduce disruption to the community. Following completion, the property management team received detailed documentation of the repairs for future maintenance and capital planning. The project provided the HOA with a practical approach to managing aging underground water infrastructure.
Call Midtown Plumbing Company at 805-765-3995. We handle the underground, trenchless, and complex plumbing work HOAs and management companies in Ventura, Oxnard, and Camarillo need a capable crew for. CSLB license #1126558.
We do a site walk and give a clear scope, not a vague estimate, so your board has what it needs to approve the work.
We coordinate timing with your management contact to minimize disruption to residents.
We pull permits and handle utility locates before any work begins.
We use trenchless and boring methods where they apply, to avoid tearing up landscaping, parking areas, or hardscape your association maintains.
We document the completed work with photos and a summary your board or management company can keep on file.
We stay available after the job for follow-up questions from your board or from residents.
If you manage several properties across Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, or elsewhere in the county, we can set up a standing relationship for larger or more technical jobs across your portfolio, separate from your day-to-day residential vendor.
Yes. We operate 24/7 and prioritize calls involving shared lines that affect multiple units.
Yes. We hold CSLB license #1126558.
We work directly with property managers and HOA boards, and we’re an established vendor for several management companies across Ventura County already.
The building or unit numbers affected, when the issue started, and whether water is actively leaking or ponding. That lets us prioritize the call correctly and arrive prepared.
Yes. We serve Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Ojai, Fillmore, and Santa Paula, including large-scale HOA and retirement communities with shared underground infrastructure.
