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Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Services in Portland
Repair and replacement for tank, tankless and heat pump water heaters. When yours quits, we can usually get you hot water again the same day.
Furnaces, heat pumps, air conditioning and ductless mini-splits. One licence covers the pipes and the furnace.
Cleaning, jetting, camera inspection and trenchless replacement. Age of pipes and roots in the lateral are the standing Portland problem.
Leaks, fixtures, and whole-house repipes on houses plumbed in galvanized a century ago.
Burst pipes, no heat, no hot water or flooding. Same-day and after-hours scheduling across the metro.
Plumbing, Heating and Cooling
Across the Portland Metro
One company, licensed in Oregon, doing both trades.
Here’s the full list, and where to go for the detail.
Thirty-two of the jobs we’re called out for
Plus plenty more. If it carries water, gas or conditioned air, we work on it.
- ADA bathroom installation
- AC repair & replacement
- Bathroom & kitchen remodel plumbing
- Concrete slab leak repair
- Commercial drain cleaning
- Ductless mini-splits
- French drain installation
- Furnace repair & replacement
- Gas lines
- Heat pump repair & installation
- Heat pump water heaters
- Indoor air quality
- New construction
- Tank repair & replacement
- Tankless installation & repair
- Thermostats
- All fixture installation
- Dishwasher & washing-machine hook-ups
- Drain cleaning
- Drain snaking
- Excavation
- Garbage disposals
- Hydro jetting
- Leak detection & repair
- Repiping while keeping your water system flowing
- Sewer burst & pull
- Sewer camera inspection
- Sewer line replacement
- Sump pumps
- Toilet repair & installation
- Trenchless sewer replacement
- Water line repair & replacement
Water Where It Shouldn’t Be?
No Heat in January?
Same-day and next-day service across Portland and the metro. New emergency requests are accepted until 8:30 PM, subject to technician availability. When you call, we’ll tell you when a technician can be there.
Portland's LocalRepipe Specialists
Most older houses in inner Portland, north, northeast, southeast, and closer in southwest still have galvanized steel supply lines, and galvanized lasts 40 to 50 years. We have spent decades replacing it in the same Irvington, Laurelhurst, Sellwood, and Buckman houses our plumbers drive past on the way home. Repiping has been part of the job here for as long as there has been a D&F.
We will tell you what era of pipe you have and how much life is left in it.
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Why Portland homeowners repipe with D&F
Your water stays on
We plan the job so your water stays on through the project, and most whole-house repipes finish in 1 to 5 days.
We look first
Fixture pressure and a camera in the drains tell us whether you need a spot repair, a partial repipe, or a whole-house repipe. We pull the permits too.
Copper or PEX
A plain explanation of which fits your house and why. We often recommend PEX because it is durable and cost-effective.
Galvanized, polybutylene, and CPVC
We replace the three materials most likely to be failing behind an older wall, and drywall repair is available as an option once the new pipe is in.
Licensed Journeyman plumbers
They live and work in the neighborhoods they repipe.
Trenchless water lines, also called directional drilling
Underground water line replacement with minimal digging, so the yard and driveway stay intact.
Warranty on the whole job
PEX pipe carries a 25-year manufacturer warranty, fittings 10 years, and D&F backs the whole job for 12 months.
Financing available
On approved credit. A whole-house repipe works out to about $5.79 a day on the current plan.
What Actually Goes Wrong in Portland Homes
Cast iron and galvanized steel, reaching the end together
Great swathes of inner Portland went up between 1900 and 1930: Irvington, Alameda, Laurelhurst, Sellwood, Buckman, Hawthorne. Those houses were plumbed with galvanized steel water supply lines and cast-iron drains, and both have a service life of no more than 50 years.
Galvanized corrodes from the inside. Pressure drops slowly enough that you stop noticing, until a second tap kills the shower. Cast iron scales and cracks along the bottom of the pipe where it sits wet. Neither fails on a schedule, which is why the honest answer to “should I repipe?” is usually “let us look first.”
We scope the drains and check pressure at the fixtures, then tell you whether you are looking at a spot repair, a partial, or a whole-house repipe.
Water heaters, and why Portland’s are different
Portland’s water comes off Bull Run, surface water from a protected watershed in the Mount Hood National Forest, and it is genuinely mountain spring water. That matters because the scale buildup that destroys water heaters in hard-water cities doesn’t break them down in Portland.
In Portland, water heaters die of old age. Tank heaters last eight to twelve years. Portland’s housing stock is old enough, and its remodel cycles regular enough, that we see plenty of tanks well past twenty. They rarely announce themselves. They simply let go, forty or fifty gallons across a basement floor, usually at the worst possible moment. In a house with a finished basement that is a very different bill from a garage.
If yours is over twelve years old, plan the replacement rather than wait for the flood. We’ll tell you what you’ve got, how long it is likely to last, and whether tank, tankless or a heat pump unit actually makes sense for your house, not just the one with the best margin.
Street trees and the sewer lateral underneath
Portland spent a century planting its streets with maples, elms and Douglas fir, and those same trees are now the commonest reason a sewer lateral fails in this city. Roots travel toward moisture, and on an older clay or cast-iron line the mortar joints are exactly that: a slow, reliable seep in an otherwise dry stretch of soil.
You can usually spot it by the rhythm. The drain clears, behaves for a month or two, then goes again. A cable bores an opening through the mass without stripping what has grown into the pipe wall, so the roots are still in there when the leaves come down and the rain starts.
In Portland the lateral from the house to the main is the homeowner’s responsibility, which makes the diagnosis worth getting right the first time. We camera the line so you can see what we’re seeing, then recommend based on what’s actually in there: jetting to strip the buildup, a spot repair, or trenchless replacement if the pipe has failed.
Basements, storm water and the pump that should have been serviced
Portland gets its rain in long, patient stretches rather than dramatic bursts, and inner-city basements were mostly dug before anyone thought hard about drainage. Add downspouts that were disconnected from the sewer under the city’s programme and now discharge somewhere near the foundation, and you have the classic Portland winter call.
A sump pump that has sat idle since June will not necessarily start in November. Failed float switches and seized impellers are the two we see most. If yours has not run in months, it is worth testing before the first serious week of rain rather than during it.
Furnaces and heat pumps in a city that finally needed air conditioning
For most of the last century a Portland house did not really need air conditioning. That changed, and it changed faster than the region’s equipment did. We now get two distinct waves of calls: furnaces failing in the first genuinely cold week, and cooling systems failing in the first genuinely hot one. Often the same houses, often equipment installed when cooling was an afterthought.
Heat pumps have shifted the conversation again, because one system now does both jobs and the rebates have made the sums work for a lot of houses that would never have considered it. Whether that is right for your home depends on the ductwork, the insulation and how the house is laid out, which is a site visit, not a phone quote.
We do plumbing and HVAC under one licence, which means the person who diagnoses the furnace is not selling you a referral to someone else.
Old houses, new bathrooms
Portland renovates. And in a house built in 1915, opening a wall is where the surprises live: galvanized supply that cannot take a new fixture’s flow, a drain line that has been carrying a slow leak for a decade, venting that was never right.
If you are remodelling, get the plumbing looked at before the drywall goes back on. Fixing it now costs a fraction of opening a finished wall later on.
Commercial Plumbing in Portland
and the Metro
Underslab rough-in
Drain, waste and vent laid out and inspected before the slab goes down. Get this wrong and it is under concrete for fifty years.
Pump vault set
Lift, set and tie in — the part of a commercial job that happens once and has to be right.
Grease interceptors
Sizing, installation and the pump-out access that keeps a kitchen inspection-ready.
Medical gas
Certified medical gas pipework, brazed, purged and tested to spec.
Backflow prevention
Assemblies installed and tested, with the paperwork the water authority wants.
Live retail
Trenching a sales floor without closing the store or losing an aisle for a week.
New construction
Rough-in from steel frame up, working to the general contractor’s programme.
Portland Changes Every Ten Blocks. So Do Its Pipes.
Irvington & Alameda
Some of the oldest intact housing in the city, largely 1900s to 1920s. Galvanized supply, cast-iron drains and the full-repipe conversations that come with a hundred-year-old house.
Laurelhurst
1910s–1920s homes on mature, heavily treed streets. Sewer lateral root intrusion is the standing issue, along with original drain lines reaching the end of their service life.
Hawthorne, Sunnyside & Richmond
Dense early-century housing with a heavy remodel cycle. Plumbing behind the walls regularly needs dealing with before the drywall goes back.
Sellwood-Moreland
Older stock with basements and mature trees. Drain, sewer and basement drainage work in roughly equal measure.
Buckman & Kerns
Close-in east side, oldest end of the housing stock, and a lot of conversions. Venting and drain reconfiguration come up constantly.
Hollywood & Beaumont-Wilshire
1920s–1940s homes, original sewer laterals, and heating systems that have been asked to do one winter too many.
Concordia & Woodstock
Mixed early- and mid-century stock. Water heaters and furnaces reaching replacement age at the same time.
St Johns
Older, working housing stock across the peninsula. Supply-line and drain work, and a lot of first-time repipe conversations.
Eastmoreland
Large older homes on treed lots. Sewer laterals, and heating and cooling systems sized for houses that were never built with air conditioning.
Multnomah Village & SW Portland
Hillside lots, older homes, and drainage that has to work with the topography rather than against it.
We’re licensed in Oregon and we work the whole metro
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Don’t see yours? We almost certainly cover it. Call (503) 282-0993 and we’ll tell you straight.
We Didn’t Expand Into Portland.
We Started Here.
Why plaid? Because it has been the uniform since before most of these houses had indoor plumbing.
Why Portland Homeowners Choose D&F
Ninety-nine years in this city
D&F opened in Portland in 1927 and never left. Not a franchise, not a roll-up with a local number and a call centre three states away.
OR #26-23PB, CCB #465
Both trades under one licence
The plumber and the HVAC technician work for the same company. Heating and cooling is half the metro’s demand, and most plumbers competing for these jobs cannot say that.
Journeyman-level work
Licensed Journeyman plumbers, which is what the trade calls someone who has finished the apprenticeship and can be left alone in your house.
Flat rates and an on-site diagnosis
A Journeyman diagnoses it on site, in your house, and prices the job from what is actually wrong rather than from a description over the phone. Our Cost of Inspection Work is $139, charged in addition to the repair, and you get a firm number before anyone picks up a tool.
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Portland Plumbing & HVAC Questions
Portland’s primary water source, the Bull Run Watershed, provides some of the softest water in the country. Because the water is so soft, you do not need a traditional salt-based water softener. However, Portland’s soft water can actually be slightly corrosive to older plumbing systems. Many Portland homeowners choose a whole-home carbon filtration system to remove chloramines (added by the city for disinfection) and improve the taste and smell of tap water.
Yes. The City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) dictates that homeowners are responsible for the entire “private sewer lateral.” This includes the pipe under your property line, under the sidewalk, and all the way to the connection at the public main line in the middle of the street. Because older Portland neighborhoods feature mature trees with aggressive root systems, we highly recommend getting a sewer scope before buying a home or if you experience frequent slow drains.
Portland is prone to severe winter freezing rain and ice storms, especially when cold air flows out of the Columbia River Gorge. To prevent burst pipes, disconnect hose bibs before winter, insulate exposed pipes in unheated basements or crawlspaces, and leave your faucets dripping at a slow trickle when temperatures drop below freezing. If a pipe cracks, locate your main water shut-off valve immediately to minimize water damage.
In homes built before the 1960s in neighborhoods like Laurelhurst, Alberta, and Sellwood, the usual cause is galvanized steel pipe. Decades of rust and mineral buildup narrow the pipe until a shower and a dishwasher cannot run at once. Repiping with copper or PEX restores full pressure and ends rusty, discolored water.
No. Portland’s historic clay tile and cast-iron sewer lines often have minor offsets, rough edges, or tree root intrusions. “Flushable” wipes do not break down like toilet paper; they catch on these imperfections, trap grease, and rapidly cause major mainline backups. Always throw wipes in the trash to avoid costly emergency drain cleanings.
High-efficiency heat pumps are highly recommended for Portland’s climate. They provide energy-efficient heating during our damp winters and reliable cooling during increasingly hot summer heatwaves. For Portland’s historic homes lacking modern ductwork, a ductless mini-split system is often the perfect solution to avoid destroying plaster walls or original architectural details.
Portland homeowners can take advantage of substantial cash incentives through the Energy Trust of Oregon when upgrading to certified high-efficiency heat pumps, smart thermostats, or gas furnaces. Low-to-moderate income households may qualify for even higher “Savings Within Reach” bonuses. We handle the Energy Trust paperwork directly to ensure you get your maximum savings.
Portland’s multi-story vintage homes often suffer from severe temperature imbalances. Warm air naturally rises, while heavy, cool air settles into uninsulated basements. We can fix this by installing a multi-zone HVAC system, balancing your ductwork dampers, or adding a supplemental ductless mini-split to keep your basement comfortable year-round.
Normally, filters should be changed every 90 days. However, during late-summer wildfire smoke events in the Willamette Valley, smoke particles can clog your filter in just a few weeks. Check your filter every 14 days when the air quality index (AQI) degrades. Upgrading to a MERV 13 filter or a whole-home media cleaner will help scrub harmful fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from your indoor air.
Yes. The City of Portland Bureau of Development Services (BDS) requires mechanical and electrical permits for all new or replacement furnace, heat pump, and air conditioner installations. As a licensed and bonded contractor, we secure all necessary municipal permits and coordinate the final city inspection to ensure your system is fully compliant.
Yes. After-hours emergency service scheduling is available, with new emergency requests accepted until 8:30 PM, subject to technician availability. Regular hours are Monday through Friday 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM and weekends 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM. We serve Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties, including Beaverton, Gresham, Tigard, Lake Oswego, and Milwaukie. Call (503) 282-0993.
Our service area spans Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties, including Beaverton, Gresham, Tigard, Lake Oswego and Milwaukie.
D&F Plumbing, Heating and Cooling, Portland
Address
650 NE Holladay St, Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97232
Phone
(503) 282-0993
Hours
Mon–Fri 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Sat & Sun 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
After-hours emergency service available
Licensed
OR #26-23PB, CCB #465
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Same-day appointments and after-hours emergency service across the city and the metro.
