Plumber in Santa Rosa, CA: Water Heaters, Boilers & Radiant Heat

Fountaingrove

In 2017 the Tubbs Fire took 1,619 housing units in and around Fountaingrove. Five years later, 936 were rebuilt and 196 more were under construction. Rebuilding here started slowly (6 homes in the first year, against 80 in Coffey Park), so the heating and hot water equipment in these houses went in over several years rather than all at once. At least one rebuilt Fountaingrove home added radiant floors along the way.

Skyhawk

Skyhawk's roughly 500 homes went up between the mid-1990s and about 2005. The 2020 Glass Fire destroyed at least 15 of them, most on a single block of Mountain Hawk Drive, along with homes north of Oakmont near Highway 12. Brand-new equipment now sits next door to originals.

Oakmont

H.N. Berger bought the land in 1963 for an empty-nester community, and Oakmont opened the next year. It now counts more than 3,200 homes mostly built from the mid-1960s through the 1980s. There are 36 sub-associations, and some homes are association-maintained, so ask yours about vent locations and work rules before replacing a water heater or boiler.

Bennett Valley

Nearly all of Bennett Valley's housing dates from 1970 to 1999, with custom homes on the hills near Trione-Annadel State Park. At the 8–12 years a tank heater usually lasts, a house from that era has already gone through several.

Tankless shuts off mid-shower

Often: scale in the heat exchanger, a blocked inlet screen, or a flow rate too low to keep it firing.

We pull the error history, descale through the service valves and check gas supply.

Hot water takes forever

Often: a failed or removed recirculation pump, or a long run to the far bathroom.

We repair or replace the pump, or talk through whether recirculation is worth keeping.

Relief valve dripping

Often: thermal expansion with a waterlogged or missing expansion tank.

We replace the tank, set its charge to your house pressure, and test the relief valve.

Water bill jumped

Often: a hidden supply leak under the house or slab, or a running fixture.

We run a leak search and repair it, or price a repipe when leaks keep coming.

Heat works, hot water doesn't

On a combi: a sticking three-way valve or a failed flow sensor. On a boiler with an indirect tank: a zone call that never reaches the boiler.

We test each call and the valve that answers it.

Lockout after a storm

A flame-sensing or ignition fault, a clogged condensate trap, or debris in the vent or intake.

We read the fault log, clear the trap, check the venting and run combustion analysis. Seeing a code? Try our Navien error code guide.

Some radiant rooms stay cold

Air trapped in loops, a dead manifold actuator, or a mixing valve set wrong.

We purge and balance the loops and check actuators with a thermal camera.

Pressure keeps dropping

A weeping relief valve, a manifold fitting, or an expansion tank that lost its charge.

We isolate and pressure-test each zone before refilling.