Sump Pump Repair in California

Sump Pump Repair across California: the 1,921 ZIP codes and 726 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.

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Basement sump pump with its PVC discharge pipework

Free to homeowners in California — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.

When it matters

Our sump pump repair coverage in California runs to 1,921 ZIP codes in 726 cities. Large municipalities carry storm water in a built system, and a basement pump in one of them is usually fighting ground water and the capacity of that system at the same time — which is why failures arrive in clusters, on the same night.

Source: coverage area as published by our call partner; place and county names from the US Census Bureau.

We route sump pump repair calls in 1,921 ZIP codes across 726 California cities, in 40 counties.

What this site is

Pit and Pump is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands, and a discharge connection is usually a permitted alteration — ask to see the permit. We carry out no work, we sell no equipment, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Checking a credential in California

California licenses are issued by the Contractors State License Board, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. California licenses the C-36 plumbing contractor; there is no state journeyman license.

19 of the 40 California counties we cover, a cross-section, largest to smallest

Alameda County 68 ZIP codes
Oakland, Berkeley, Hayward, Fremont, San Leandro, Alameda, Castro Valley, Emeryville, Livermore, Pleasanton, Albany, Dublin and 4 more
Amador County 8 ZIP codes
Amador City, Drytown, Ione, Jackson, Pine Grove, Pioneer, Plymouth, Sutter Creek
Butte County 19 ZIP codes
Chico, Oroville, Paradise, Bangor, Biggs, Durham, Forest Ranch, Gridley, Magalia, Nelson, Palermo, Richvale
Contra Costa County 52 ZIP codes
Concord, Richmond, Walnut Creek, Moraga, Antioch, Danville, El Sobrante, San Ramon, Alamo, Bethel Island, Brentwood, Byron and 18 more
Humboldt County 21 ZIP codes
Eureka, Arcata, Bayside, Blue Lake, Carlotta, Ferndale, Fields Landing, Fortuna, Hydesville, Kneeland, Korbel, Loleta and 6 more
Los Angeles County 494 ZIP codes
Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, Van Nuys, Inglewood, North Hollywood, Santa Monica, Torrance, Whittier, Alhambra and 114 more
Merced County 13 ZIP codes
Merced, Atwater, Delhi, Gustine, Hilmar, Livingston, Los Banos, Snelling, Winton
Napa County 12 ZIP codes
Napa, American Canyon, Angwin, Calistoga, Deer Park, Oakville, Pope Valley, Rutherford, Saint Helena, Yountville
Orange County 144 ZIP codes
Anaheim, Irvine, Santa Ana, Orange, Fullerton, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Buena Park, Brea, Costa Mesa, La Habra and 32 more
San Joaquin County 41 ZIP codes
Stockton, Tracy, Lodi, Manteca, Acampo, Clements, Escalon, French Camp, Lathrop, Linden, Lockeford, Ripon and 3 more
Santa Clara County 106 ZIP codes
San Jose, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Los Gatos, Campbell, Los Altos, Cupertino, Gilroy, Milpitas, Morgan Hill and 6 more
Santa Cruz County 20 ZIP codes
Santa Cruz, Aptos, Watsonville, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Brookdale, Capitola, Davenport, Felton, Freedom, Mount Hermon, Scotts Valley and 1 more
Solano County 16 ZIP codes
Vallejo, Vacaville, Fairfield, Benicia, Birds Landing, Dixon, Elmira, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Travis AFB
Sonoma County 38 ZIP codes
Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Sebastopol, Bodega, Bodega Bay, Cloverdale, Cotati, Eldridge, Forestville, Fulton, Geyserville and 11 more
Stanislaus County 28 ZIP codes
Modesto, Turlock, Ceres, Crows Landing, Denair, Farmington, Hickman, Hughson, Keyes, Newman, Oakdale, Patterson and 5 more
Tehama County 7 ZIP codes
Corning, Gerber, Los Molinos, Proberta, Red Bluff, Tehama, Vina
Tuolumne County 2 ZIP codes
La Grange, Sonora
Ventura County 36 ZIP codes
Oxnard, Simi Valley, Ventura, Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Newbury Park, Westlake Village, Brandeis, Fillmore, Oak Park, Oak View and 5 more
Yuba County 5 ZIP codes
Beale AFB, Marysville, Olivehurst, Rackerby, Wheatland

21 more California counties are inside the coverage area and are not listed here. If your ZIP code is in California, the call reaches a contractor.

What that coverage looks like

Of the 1,921 ZIP codes we cover in California, 494 are in Los Angeles County and 100 in Sacramento. Storms do not respect that distribution: a single night's rain across 40 counties produces far more pump calls than any contractor can answer at once, which is the argument for testing yours in the dry.

How a sump pump repair job goes

A sump pump is tested by filling the pit, not by listening to it. The float has to lift, the pump has to start, the check valve has to hold and the discharge has to run clear of the house. Any of those four can fail silently and none of them announces itself until the night the pump is needed.

What the call asks about sump pump repair

Whether the pump runs at all when the float is lifted by hand.
Where the discharge goes, and whether it is frozen, blocked or running back into the pit.
Whether there is a battery backup, and when it was last tested.

Every California city we route in

338 cities, ordered by the share of housing built before 1970. Basements, and the groundwater under them, are a function of when and how the housing was built. Each page carries that city’s own numbers and the ZIP codes we route there.

Before you call

A pump is tested by pouring water into the pit, not by listening for it. The pages above say what to check and how often.

Drain pipe emerging from a concrete wall

Discharge pipe running down beside basement steps to a channel drain