We work out of Corona, the Circle City where the 91 and Interstate 15 cross, and we take plumbing calls around the clock. Homeowners, renters, landlords, HOA boards and small business owners across Riverside County reach a live person every time they phone.
When you call after dark
SoCal Emergency Plumbing Corona is set up for the bad nights: a slab leak hissing under the kitchen floor, an upstairs toilet spilling onto the ceiling below, a water heater leaking across the garage. While you are still on the phone we help you shut the water off (usually at the main valve on the pipe coming in from the street, or inside the meter box), and a plumber leaves Corona for your address.
Corona was founded in 1886 as South Riverside and voted to incorporate in 1896, but most of its houses are far younger. The median home dates from 1991, and the housing splits into rough quarters: before 1980, the 1980s, the 1990s, and 2000 or later. The oldest houses near downtown and inside the Grand Boulevard circle may still have galvanized steel water lines, cast iron drain pipe and clay laterals running to the street. The big 1980s and 1990s tracts in South Corona, Sierra del Oro and the hills sit on slabs with copper supply lines, and that copper is where pinholes and slab leaks come from; some homes from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s still have gray polybutylene pipe. On the hillside streets the pressure off the main runs high, and the regulators that tame it wear out. Dos Lagos, Eagle Glen and Green River Ranch are mostly plumbed in PEX or copper, often with tankless heaters and recirculation pumps. City water averages about 8.5 grains per gallon, hard enough to scale all of it. In condos and townhomes with shared walls and drain stacks, a leak gets narrowed down to the right unit and the right pipe before a wall is opened. So testing the line or reading the pressure comes before any talk of cost.
License and bond on the public record
All work is done under CSLB #1131308 (C-36 Plumbing). The state holds our $25,000 contractor bond on file, and a public CSLB lookup shows the bond and the license together.
A real person answers
Call at 2 a.m., late on a Saturday or on the Fourth of July and someone able to help answers. No phone menu, no voicemail.
Based in Corona
Corona is our one and only base. Each call is handled from here, and the plumber we send sets out from Corona.
We leave it clean
Floors are covered before work starts, worn parts leave with the plumber, and the repair is all that stays behind.
What you get in writing
Straight explanations
You hear what failed and why in ordinary words, and nobody sells you a repair the house does not need.
Written estimate first
The estimate is written out and signed by you first, so you know the number before a single fitting comes off.
Backed after the job
Each repair and installation comes with our written workmanship warranty. If something we fixed lets go, we return and set it right.
The work we take on
Most Corona calls trace back to copper and hard water. Think of a pinhole in a copper line wetting the drywall, a slab leak below a 1990s family room, scale filling the bottom of a tank heater, roots inside a clay lateral near downtown, or a tankless unit in Dos Lagos with an error code on its display. Every service below has a page that lists the early signs and explains the repair.
24/7 Emergency Plumbing
Burst lines, an overflowing toilet, and any leak that cannot be left alone until morning.
Drain Cleaning & Hydro Jetting
Clogs cleared from a single sink out to the main sewer line, then a camera pass so you can watch the line run open.
Water Heater Repair & Installation
Tank and tankless heaters repaired, flushed of the scale Corona's hard water leaves, or replaced. A new tank is strapped twice for earthquakes, as California code requires, and its relief valve discharges through its own line to a safe spot.
Sewer Repair & Repiping
Cracked or root-filled clay and cast iron laterals repaired or replaced, trenchless where the ground and the pipe permit. Whole-house repipes swap galvanized steel, thinning copper or gray polybutylene for new PEX or copper.
Leak & Gas Leak Detection
Leaks under slabs and behind walls located before anything is cut open, and gas piping we repair is pressure tested before SoCalGas turns it back on.
Where we work
Corona is home base and the only place we send help from, with 24-hour emergency response on every call. This site has pages for Corona, Norco, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley, Riverside, Lake Elsinore, Perris, Canyon Lake and Moreno Valley. The other cities of Riverside County, from Temecula to Palm Springs and Blythe, get the same service without a page of their own.
Check the license yourself
California license #1131308
It is held by SoCal Plumbing Co Inc. Search the number on the CSLB website and the full record shows, so you can check it before a plumber reaches your door.
$25,000 contractor bond
The surety is Nationwide. The bond sits on the CSLB record next to the license, open to any owner, renter or HOA board who wants to see it.
Permits pulled and closed
In Corona, gas line, sewer lateral, repipe and water heater permits come from the City of Corona Building Division. Norco, Eastvale, Riverside and the other cities each run their own building department, and land outside city limits, such as Temescal Valley, goes through Riverside County Building and Safety. We close out every permit we pull once the inspector signs off.
Written workmanship warranty
It covers every repair and installation, and its terms are written on the estimate you sign and again on the final invoice. If one of our repairs fails, the plumber returns and redoes it.
Common questions about SoCal Emergency Plumbing Corona
License: CSLB #1131308 (C-36 Plumbing) in the name of SoCal Plumbing Co Inc, first issued January 6, 2025 and current to January 31, 2027, with its $25,000 bond placed through Nationwide. Both are public.
Area: Corona first, then the neighbors (Norco, Eastvale, Riverside), then all of Riverside County. We come to your address; nothing ever has to be brought to us.
Cost: written down as an estimate and agreed with you before work begins.
Who calls: homeowners, condo and townhome owners, tenants, landlords, property managers, HOA boards and small commercial owners, about anything from a dripping angle stop to a whole-house repipe.
Nights: (951) 582-2433 is answered around the clock, 365 days a year. Standing water, a sewer backup, a whiff of gas or a dead water heater each get 24-hour emergency response.
Warranty: our written workmanship warranty covers each repair and installation and is printed on the estimate and the invoice you keep. Heaters and fixtures we install also carry the maker's own warranty.
When water is spreading, pick up the phone.
A C-36 license you can look up, a bond on file with the state, and a live voice on the line day and night for Corona and the whole of Riverside County.