Plumbing Done Right
When it's leaking, backed up, or bone-dry, you want the outfit that's been fixing San Clemente pipes for decades. Straight answers, honest pricing, work that holds.
The plumbers locals call first.
Since 1985, Bill Metzger Plumbing has been a family-run shop working out of San Clemente — the kind of place where the person who answers the phone is the same trade that shows up at your door. We didn't grow by chasing volume. We grew because homeowners near the pier and up the hillsides kept passing our number to neighbors after we fixed something two other plumbers couldn't.
A plumbing problem is rarely convenient. It's a Sunday morning burst line, a slab leak nobody can locate, a water heater that quit the day guests arrived. What people remember afterward isn't the pipe — it's whether someone gave them a straight answer and a fair price. That's the whole business, and it's why this page reads more like a letter than a brochure.
Since 1985, and counting.
Watch the years settle in — and the credentials that back every one of them.
Bill's crew found a slab leak two other plumbers missed. Fair price, no drama, fixed clean. These are the people you want.
Three things, every single time.
You talk to a real plumber
No phone maze. You describe the problem and get a straight answer about what's likely wrong and what it'll take.
A price before the work
We diagnose, then quote. You approve the number before we start — so the invoice never surprises you.
We leave it clean
The repair holds, the mess is gone, and we walk you through what we did before we go.
From the 2 a.m. flood to the planned repipe.
Emergency Plumbing
A failed line can flood a home in minutes. We answer fast, get on-site quickly, and stop the damage before it spreads. Then we fix the root cause, not just the symptom.
- Fast local response
- Burst & frozen pipe repair
- Flood mitigation
Water Heaters
No hot water is no fun. We diagnose fast, and if it's time to replace, we size the unit to your household so you're not paying for capacity you don't need.
- Tank & tankless install
- Same-day repair
- Code-compliant
Two ways to save right now.
$50 Off Any Repair
New customers save on their first plumbing repair.
Free Water Heater Estimate
Thinking of replacing an aging tank? We'll size it right and quote it free.
Something's wrong with the plumbing?
Talk to a real San Clemente plumber right now.
Call (949) 492-3558