Plumber in Campbell, CA

Your Neighborhood Plumber, Minutes from Campbell

Who We Are

Simply Green is a family company. Lisa runs the office, Russell has been a plumber since the company opened in 1988, and the techs on our trucks are our own crew. We are licensed and insured, CA License 943556.

The way we work is simple. We find the problem, show you what we found, walk you through the options, and charge for the work we actually did. Camera footage, photos from the crawl space, the failed part in your hand if you want it.

A lot of our Campbell work comes from referrals, one neighbor handing our number to the next after a job went well. We would like to keep it that way.

Plumbing Services in Campbell

Here is what we handle in Campbell in any given week:

• Drain cleaning and rooter service, from a slow kitchen sink to a main line backing up into the tub
• Sewer camera inspections and sewer repair, so you see the inside of your line before anyone talks about digging
• Trenchless sewer replacement when an old clay line is past saving
• Hydro flushing for grease and mineral buildup a cable machine will not touch
• Water heater repair and installation, tank and tankless
• Repiping for homes still running on original galvanized pipe
• Leak detection for when the water bill jumps and nothing looks wet

Campbell’s Mid-Century Homes Keep Us Busy

Most of Campbell was built in the 1950s and 60s, when the orchards came down and the ranch houses went up. Those homes are close to seventy years old now, and where the plumbing is original, it is usually the reason we get the call. Three problems account for most of our Campbell visits.

Galvanized supply pipes

Steel pipe rusts from the inside, so the opening narrows year after year. If your shower drops to a dribble whenever the washing machine fills, that is the classic sign. The lasting fix is a repipe, and we will tell you straight whether your house needs one now or can wait a few more years.

Tree roots in clay sewer lines

The mature trees that shade the streets around downtown and San Tomas push roots into every joint of an old clay lateral. We cut them out, run the camera, and show you the footage. Some lines have years left in them. Others clog every winter, and a trenchless replacement ends the cycle without trenching up your yard.

“Today, I had issues with a backup in my house with some old sewer pipes, and they quickly responded and diagnosed the issue. Their technicians offered solutions for my problem, and fixed it quickly and professionally.”

Bryan S., Campbell homeowner · ★★★★★ Google review

Hard water and water heaters

Water in this part of the valley is hard, and the minerals settle in your tank year after year. A heater that rumbles or runs out of hot water early is usually carrying a few inches of sediment. Caught early, a flush buys time. Past ten years old, it is worth pricing a replacement before it quits on a holiday weekend.

Recent Jobs in Campbell

A whole-house backup with no cleanout

Both bathrooms were backed up, the home had no cleanout, and a four-foot plant sat right over the sewer line. On day one we opened the line, cleared it and ran a camera through it. On day two we installed a cleanout at the foundation with a box set at ground level, so the next service will not mean digging. The homeowners got the camera video and a diagram showing which part of the sewer line is theirs and which belongs to the sanitation district.

A wet spot on a downstairs ceiling

Nothing upstairs looked wrong, so we started with the primary shower and pulled the valve trim. The cartridge had failed and was leaking back into the wall, which matched the stain below. It took one hour to find.

An irrigation riser waiting to fail

The riser feeding the sprinklers had two old gate valves, a type known to break at the stem, and one already had. The whole assembly was unsupported PVC. We rebuilt it in Type L copper mounted on a steel channel, used a dielectric fitting where it meets the old galvanized pipe so the two metals cannot corrode each other, and added a hose bib.

Copper pipe corroding where it touched steel

The copper water pipes under this house were corroding at the joints. An earlier installer had run them touching the steel gas pipe and hung them with steel straps, and two different metals in contact corrode each other. The copper itself was good, heavy Type L, so instead of a repipe we recommended rerouting it away from the steel at the 12 spots we found, replacing the damaged fittings and switching to plastic straps.

A cleanout that paid for itself

This Campbell homeowner’s main line clogged about once a year, and every visit meant getting inside the house. We added a cleanout in 2023. The next time it backed up, he was not even home. We cleared the line from the cleanout outside, without anyone needing to let us in.

Black plastic water line and 85 PSI

We were called to a Campbell home and checked the water pressure first, the way we do on every visit. It read 85 PSI, above the 80 PSI limit the plumbing code allows inside a home. The water service from the meter turned out to be black polybutylene, a plastic pipe that turns brittle with age and is known to fail. We recommended one fix for both: a new copper service line with a pressure reducing valve and a ball valve shutoff, so the family can turn the water off fast in an emergency.

Questions Campbell Homeowners Ask Us

How fast can you get to Campbell?

Simply Green Plumbing’s shop in Los Gatos is minutes from the Campbell city line, so urgent calls often get same-day service. For a burst pipe or a sewage backup, call the same number at any hour. We run 24/7 emergency service.

“Extremely fast emergency response with fantastic level of service.”

Colin J., Campbell property owner · ★★★★★ Google review

My house was built in 1958. Can you work on the original plumbing?

That is most of what Simply Green Plumbing does in Campbell. Galvanized supply lines, cast iron drains, clay sewer laterals. We have worked on homes from that era since 1988, and we stock the parts they actually need.

Roots got into my sewer line. Do I need a whole new line?

Not always. Simply Green Plumbing runs a camera down the line first and shows you what is down there. One bad joint can often be spot repaired. If the whole run is failing, trenchless replacement usually makes more sense than digging, and your landscaping survives it.

Why is my water heater making a rumbling noise?

In Campbell, it is almost always sediment from hard water boiling underneath the tank. A flush helps if the heater is younger. Past ten years, rumbling usually means it is near the end, and replacing it on your schedule beats replacing it during a cold shower.

My sewer is backing up. Do I call the sanitation district or a plumber?

Campbell’s sewer mains belong to the West Valley Sanitation District. If your home has a cleanout near the property line, the district also looks after the line from that cleanout out to the main, and on weekdays during business hours they will come check their side first. The line from your house to that cleanout is yours to keep clear, and so is the whole line if there is no property line cleanout. If the district finds their side is clear, or it is a night or weekend, call Simply Green Plumbing at (408) 358-6446. We will clear the line and run a camera so you can see what caused it.

Who supplies Campbell’s water, and is it hard?

San Jose Water serves Campbell. Its water is a blend of local mountain streams, groundwater wells and treated water from Valley Water, and the hardness depends on the mix. San Jose Water’s 2025 water quality report lists average hardness from about 99 to 288 parts per million across those sources. That is hard enough to leave sediment in a water heater and scale on faucets over the years, which is why flushing the tank matters here.