Pompano Beach Plumber

Erica’s Plumbing, Air Conditioning & Restoration is a licensed, woman-owned Pompano Beach plumber available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year — holidays included. We’ve run Florida plumbing contractor license #CFC1427956 since 2009, and we hold a 4.8-star average across more than 2,000 Google reviews. Our shop is on NE 10th Avenue in Oakland Park — roughly fifteen minutes up Dixie Highway from Atlantic Boulevard, closer to most of Pompano than the Boca and Fort Lauderdale companies bidding the same jobs. That’s not marketing, it’s drive time, and it’s why we can put a licensed plumber at a Pompano Beach address the same day on most standard calls. Call 561-260-5763.

The call mix in Pompano Beach doesn’t look like the call mix out west. Coral Springs and Parkland went up in the 80s and 90s, so those calls skew toward water heaters and fixtures. Pompano’s housing is older and sits closer to salt water, so what we actually run here is drain and sewer work in 1950s–70s cast iron, slab leak detection, repipes pulling out polybutylene and galvanized, and corrosion on anything east of Federal. We still handle every other plumbing service — emergency repair, water heaters, toilets and fixtures, gas lines, filtration, commercial — but if you’re calling us from a Pompano address, odds are good it’s one of the first four.

The age of the housing stock east of Dixie, the salt air near the Pier, the water table under your slab, and the way the city treats and moves water all shape what actually goes wrong here — and what it takes to fix it once instead of four times. Here’s what drives most of the plumbing calls we run in Pompano.

If your Pompano Beach home went up before the mid-1970s — which covers most of Old Pompano, Cresthaven, Kendall Green, Garden Isles, Sanders Park, and the older pockets east of Dixie Highway — the drain lines running under your slab are almost certainly cast iron. Fifty-plus years in damp South Florida fill corrodes them from the inside. The floor of the pipe channels and rusts thin, scale builds along the walls, and the usable diameter narrows until paper and solids snag on the rough edges.

The symptom you notice is a clog that comes right back a few weeks after every snaking. The actual problem is the pipe. A sewer camera inspection tells you which one you’re dealing with in about twenty minutes — and it’s the difference between paying for the same drain cleaning four times a year and fixing it once.

Pompano Beach draws its drinking water from the Biscayne Aquifer, pumped up at two city wellfields and treated at two separate plants — one conventional lime-softening, one membrane. Which plant serves your street changes what actually comes out of your tap, and parts of the area are served by Broward County Water & Wastewater instead of the city.

Worth knowing, because it cuts against what most water-treatment advertising in this market tells you: the City of Pompano Beach reports finished water hardness of roughly 1 to 2 grains. That’s genuinely soft for South Florida. Scale is a smaller problem here than it is thirty minutes north. Chloramine disinfectant is the more useful thing to pay attention to — it’s hard on rubber components and it’s a recognized factor in the brittle failures we still find in polybutylene supply lines in Pompano homes and condos built between roughly 1978 and 1995. If we’re quoting you a water filtration system, we’ll test your water first rather than sell you a softener you may not need.

Once you get east of Federal, salt air becomes a real load on plumbing hardware. Hillsboro Shores, Harbor Village, Coral Key, Pompano Isles, the Isle of Capri, and the beachside condo stock near the Pier all see accelerated corrosion on exactly the parts nobody looks at: water heater nipples and fittings, exposed hose bibs, pool equipment lines, backflow assemblies, and anything brass or galvanized sitting in the breeze off the Atlantic.

Practically, that means a water heater in a garage two blocks from the ocean does not get the same lifespan as the identical unit out in Palm Aire. We size and spec differently for coastal Pompano addresses, and dielectric unions and the right connector material stop being optional details.

Pompano Beach doesn’t move sewage on gravity alone. The city maintains roughly 81 lift stations pushing wastewater through about 59 miles of force main, all of it headed to the Broward County North Regional plant on Copans Road. The city runs an ongoing public campaign against what it calls FROG — fats, rags, oils, and greases — because that’s what fouls the system.

“Flushable” wipes are the main offender. They do not break down. They rope together, catch on anything rough, and an aging cast iron lateral gives them a hundred places to catch. If you’re getting recurring backups and you’ve got wipes in the house, those two facts are related. Note also that if your building has a private lift station, maintaining it is the property owner’s responsibility — not the city’s — which surprises a lot of Pompano condo and commercial owners the first time it fails.

South Florida’s water table sits close to the surface, and Pompano’s ground is sand and fill — which east of the Intracoastal means you’re essentially building on old beach. That combination means a slab leak here often doesn’t announce itself the way the textbooks say it will. There may be no warm spot on the tile, no obvious sound. Water takes the path of least resistance through porous ground and can travel a surprising distance before it surfaces, which is why the wet baseboard is frequently nowhere near the broken pipe.

On the barrier island and in the finger-canal neighborhoods off the Intracoastal — Coral Key, Pompano Isles, Harbor Village — tidal influence on the water table makes it worse, and we’ve chased leaks that only presented at certain times of day. This is precisely where guessing gets expensive. Acoustic listening equipment, thermal imaging, and line tracing let us pinpoint the failure before anyone touches a jackhammer. The cost of the leak detection is trivial next to the cost of opening the wrong room.

These four are where being in Pompano actually changes the answer.

The defining plumbing project of older Pompano Beach housing, and the reason half our Pompano calls exist. When the under-slab cast iron is done, it’s done — patching a fifty-year-old line one section at a time is usually money spent twice. We inspect, document the condition on camera, and lay out the real options: full replacement, lining, or targeted repair, with what each actually costs and what each actually buys you. In a Cresthaven or Old Pompano house, this conversation is coming eventually. Better to have it on your schedule than at 11pm on a holiday weekend.

A cable clears the blockage. Hydro jetting clears the pipe — scouring grease, scale, and root hair off the walls so the line runs at full diameter again. In Pompano’s older cast iron that distinction is most of the reason a drain either stays open for years or backs up again by next month. We camera first and show you the footage, so you’re not paying for the wrong one. Where the line’s a candidate, trenchless repair restores it without opening your driveway or your terrazzo. And if you’re buying in Pompano: scope the sewer before you close. Every time.

No hot water, rusty hot water, popping and rumbling from the tank, or a puddle underneath. We handle water heater repair and full replacement across Pompano Beach, plus tankless conversions. What’s different here is the salt: a tank in a garage two blocks off the ocean in 33062 will not last as long as the identical unit in Palm Aire, and the failures start at the fittings. For coastal Pompano addresses we spec dielectric protection and connector material accordingly rather than installing whatever came off the truck.

A water bill that jumped for no reason, a meter that spins with every tap closed, a musty smell, a soft spot in the floor. We find water leaks, slab leaks, and gas leaks with acoustic and thermal equipment instead of demolition. When what we find is failing polybutylene or galvanized — common in Pompano’s 1978–1995 stock, and a reason your insurer may be asking questions — we repipe in PEX or CPVC, permitted and inspected. Smell gas? Leave the house first, then call us from outside.

We also handle 24/7 emergency plumbing, gas lines, standby generators, water filtration, toilets, faucets and fixtures, garbage disposals, bathroom remodels, sump pumps, and commercial plumbing for Pompano Beach — including private lift station service for HOAs and restaurant grease line maintenance. Same license, same flat rate, same 24/7 line.

We cover the whole city — from the beachfront condos near the Pompano Beach Pier and Fisherman’s Wharf, west across US-1 and Dixie, through the neighborhoods along Atlantic Boulevard, Copans Road, and Sample Road, out to Powerline and the Palm Aire golf communities.

Neighborhoods we run regularly include Old Pompano, Cresthaven, Kendall Green, Garden Isles, Collier City, Sanders Park, Avondale, Lyons Park, Leisureville, Palm Aire, Cypress Bend, Cypress Harbor, Harbor Village, Hillsboro Shores, Coral Key, Pompano Isles, the Isle of Capri, and Pompano Beach Highlands.

ZIP codes: 33060, 33062, 33064, and 33069 for the core of the city, plus the 33063, 33065, 33066, 33067, 33073, and 33076 addresses that carry a Pompano Beach mailing address. We also serve the neighbors — Lighthouse Point, Deerfield Beach, Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Wilton Manors, and our home base in Oakland Park.

Plumbing work in Pompano Beach that touches the permanent system — repipes, water heater replacement, sewer and drain line work, gas lines, backflow assemblies — is permitted through the City of Pompano Beach Building Inspections Division and inspected against the Florida Building Code. Note that this is a City department, not Broward County: if a plumber tells you he’s pulling your Pompano permit through the county, he either doesn’t work here often or he isn’t pulling one.

We pull the permit. Not you. It’s part of the quoted price, and it’s not optional on our jobs. An unpermitted water heater is a line item your buyer’s inspector will find, and an unpermitted repipe is a fight with your insurer at exactly the wrong moment.

Our Florida licenses:
Plumbing — CFC1427956
Air Conditioning — CAC1822846
General Contractor — CGC1519396

Woman-owned and operated since 2009. A+ rated BBB accredited business, IICRC certified, Nexstar Network member. Every plumber who shows up at your Pompano address is our employee, background-checked, in a marked truck. We don’t subcontract residential service.

No hourly clock running while you watch. No “we’ll see when we get there.” Here’s exactly how a Pompano Beach service call works.

A person answers, day or night. We dispatch from Oakland Park, not a call center in another state — so whoever takes your address knows where Cresthaven is.

A $79 dispatch fee brings a licensed plumber and a stocked truck to your door — waived when you approve the work. One fee whether you’re on the beach in 33062 or out by Powerline in 33069. We don’t price the drive.

You get options and a flat price in writing before any work starts. You pick. Nothing happens without your yes, and the number doesn’t move after.

Permit pulled through the City where required, cleaned up after, warrantied. Financing available on larger Pompano projects like repipes and cast iron.