Best Plumbing
24/7 emergency service 8820 Aurora Ave N, Seattle 98103 Written quote before work starts
206-633-1700
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Best Plumbing · 8820 Aurora Ave N · Seattle 98103

Every job gets a written price before a wrench comes out of the bag.

Best Plumbing is a Seattle plumber working out of a shop on Aurora Ave N. The business behind this site trades as Bestplumbing at bestplumbing.app, and it is a plumbing contractor, nothing else: residential and light-commercial repair, drains, side sewers, water heaters and gas lines, with emergency calls taken around the clock.

01 / The method

Call to sign-off, the same five steps on every job

The trades are plumbing repair and repipes, drain cleaning, sewer camera inspection and side sewer repair, water heater repair and replacement, and gas line installation and repair. Each has its own room on the services page with the spec table and the price basis.

The order below does not change for a big job or a small one. A dripping hose bib and a full galvanized repipe both start with somebody looking at it.

  1. You call or send the form

    A person answers 206-633-1700, day or night. We ask what is happening, where the house is, and whether water or gas is still running. If water is running, the first instruction is the main shutoff, usually a gate or ball valve where the service enters the basement or crawlspace, sometimes in the meter box at the sidewalk.

    Phone answered 24/7

  2. Someone looks at it on site

    A plumber comes out and finds the actual fault. For drains that may mean pulling a cleanout plug. For a side sewer it means the camera goes down and the run is recorded, with roots, offsets and bellies marked by distance from the cleanout. For a tankless request it means clocking the gas meter and measuring the supply pipe, because a 199,000 BTU unit on a 1/2 in. branch will starve.

    Inspection before any price

  3. The quote is written on site

    It names the parts by type and size, the labor, the haul-away and the permit if the job needs one. A 50-gallon gas tank swap, for example, lists the unit, the vent connector, two seismic straps, the expansion tank, the flex connectors, taking the old tank away and the permit. You read it and decide. Nothing is cut before you say yes.

    Written, itemized, before tools

  4. The work, and the stop rule

    If we open a wall or a floor and find something the quote did not cover, say a second galvanized tee rotted through or a cast iron hub cracked behind the drywall, work stops. You get the revised number and the reason, in writing, before we carry on. Most jobs never hit this. Old Seattle houses with original pipe hit it more than people expect.

    Stop and tell you first

  5. Test, clean up, sign off

    Water lines are pressure-checked and run. Gas lines are pressure-tested on a gauge before the meter goes back on, and there is no sign-off without that test. Drains get a flow test with the fixtures open. The old parts go in the van, the drop cloths come up, and you get the paperwork, plus the inspection booking where a permit was pulled.

    No test, no sign-off

02 / The shop

The shop on Aurora Ave N

The trucks load out of 8820 Aurora Ave N, in the 98103 zip, on the stretch of Aurora just north of Green Lake. Copper gets cut and prepped on the bench there and fittings are stocked by the bin. The drain machines and the sewer camera come back to the same bench to be cleaned after every job, because a camera head packed with grit from Tuesday's clay line gives you blurry footage on Wednesday.

Being on Aurora means short drives into the older housing stock north of the ship canal, where a lot of the city's remaining galvanized supply lines and clay side sewers still sit. These are the neighborhoods we drive to most:

  • Greenwood
  • Phinney Ridge
  • Fremont
  • Wallingford
  • Green Lake
  • Ballard

We work across Seattle. We do not quote arrival times by the minute, because Aurora at 5 p.m. does not keep promises for anybody.

Hands cutting copper pipe on the Best Plumbing shop bench among fittings and tools
Bench / Aurora Ave NType L copper, cut, deburred, fluxed before it leaves the shop

03 / What we turn down

Jobs we will not take as asked

  • Jetting a clay sewer blind. We will not hydro-jet a clay side sewer before a camera has been down it. A cracked bell joint takes the water pressure, the crack opens, and a root problem becomes a dig. Camera first. If you want the line jetted without one, call someone else.
  • A tankless unit the gas line cannot feed. Most older Seattle houses have a 1/2 in. branch to the water heater and a meter sized for a furnace and a tank. A high-output tankless needs far more. We size the supply first, and if it needs an upsized run we say so in the quote rather than fitting a unit that cuts out mid-shower.
  • A third snaking of the same kitchen drain. Twice is a clog. Three times on the same line is a pipe that has scaled down to half its bore or lost its slope. On the third visit you get the camera footage and a replacement quote, not another cable run.
  • Gas sign-off without a pressure test. Black iron or CSST, the run holds pressure on the gauge before the meter goes back on. We will not skip that step to save twenty minutes.
  • Patching a supply line we know is failing. We will clamp a split galvanized pipe at 2 a.m. to get your water back. We will not tell you the clamp is the repair.

04 / Fit

Who we suit, and who we do not

We suit owners of older Seattle houses who want to know what is behind the wall before they pay for it: craftsman bungalows still on original galvanized supply, or a 1950s rambler with a clay side sewer and a cherry tree twelve feet from it. Duplexes where the gas line has been extended by a different person every decade are a regular. We also suit small commercial spaces with one or two restrooms and a water heater in a closet.

We are the wrong call if you want a price over the phone for work nobody has seen. We will not give one. We are also the wrong call for new-construction rough-in on a large development, and for anything outside plumbing, drains, sewer, water heaters and gas: no HVAC ductwork or electrical panels. We patch the opening we cut for our own pipe; finish carpentry and paint are for your contractor.

If the price is the worry, the quote costs you nothing to read and you are free to say no to it.

05 / A person, not a queue

How to reach the Seattle plumber who will do the job

The phone, 206-633-1700, is answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it is the fastest route for an emergency plumber in Seattle. Email goes to [email protected] and is read through the day. For routine work, a reply normally goes out the same working day.

Letters and drop-ins go to the shop at 8820 Aurora Ave N, Seattle, Washington 98103. Questions about your data, or a request to see or delete it, go to the same email address and are answered within 7 days. The full detail sits in the privacy notice and the terms.

Call 206-633-1700 Request a written quote