Faucet Repair and Replacement in Edmonds, WA
Dripping tub spouts, worn shower cartridges and tired bathroom and kitchen faucets, repaired or replaced from Perrinville to the Bowl by licensed plumbers from our shop in Mukilteo
Stollwerck Plumbing & Sewer repairs and replaces faucets across Edmonds, from tub and shower valves to bathroom and kitchen faucets. Most drips come down to a worn cartridge, stem or seal that we can replace with the maker’s own part, and when a faucet body has failed we install a new one, yours or ours, and test it before we leave.
Real Faucet Work in Edmonds
In June 2026 Willie and Logan spent a long day at a house in north Edmonds near Perrinville. The main job was outside, where they combined the house’s two water service lines onto one meter after confirming with the City of Edmonds which meter it would remove. While they were there, the homeowner asked about the downstairs bathroom: the tub spout kept running for about a minute after the shower was turned off, and the hand-held shower did not work at all.
They took the trim off and found a Kohler pressure-balancing valve with stops built into its body. Those stops let them close off just that shower, leave it apart and keep the rest of the house in water while genuine Kohler parts were ordered. In the powder room on the same visit, a sink that looked clogged turned out to be airlocking, because the basin has no overflow, and raising the pop-up let it drain normally again.
Two weeks later Logan and Willie were back with the parts. They fitted the new pressure balancer and control, checked that hot and cold came out where the handle said they should, and showed the homeowner the result before the trim went back on. The spout still lets go of a little water for five to eight seconds after shutoff, which is the water left standing in the spout draining out, and that is a long way from the minute-long run the household had been living with.
Some of our Edmonds calls come from addresses outside the city limits, and the work there is the same. North of the city toward Picnic Point, Connor and Logan found a shower cartridge in January 2026 that had snapped off inside its valve; they worked the broken piece out and fitted a special-order cartridge and a new handle. In August Chase broke two corroded bathroom faucets loose from their sinks in the same area, set the homeowner’s new faucets and pop-up drains, and filled and drained each sink five times. In September 2025 Logan rebuilt a dripping Delta faucet in a master bath up there, on the same visit as a toilet rebuild upstairs.
What We Do for Edmonds Faucets
Tub and Shower Valves
A single-lever tub and shower valve wears at its cartridge, and on a pressure-balancing model at the balancer that holds the temperature steady when someone flushes a toilet. We identify the maker and model, order the maker’s part when the truck does not carry it, and test hot, cold and the shower before the trim goes on.
Bathroom Faucets and Pop-Up Drains
Bathroom faucets often corrode to the sink and have to be broken loose before a new one can go in. The pop-up drain comes out with the faucet, and on a basin with no overflow its height matters, because a pop-up set too low can trap air and make a clear drain run slowly.
Kitchen Faucets
A kitchen faucet that leaks from inside its body needs replacing, while a drip from the spout is often just a cartridge. We install the faucet you have chosen, or one from our truck, and our faucet repair page covers the work across the county.
Stops and Supply Lines
The two stops under the sink and the supply lines above them are part of every faucet call. A stop that will not close, or a supply line clogged with rust from old galvanized pipe, is easiest to change while the water is already off.
Edmonds-Specific Considerations
Inside the City Line, and Outside It
Edmonds mailing addresses reach well past the city limits. On the census map, much of the area north of the city toward Picnic Point is unincorporated Snohomish County, and so are several of the houses behind the faucet calls on this page. The plumbing is the same on both sides of the line. What changes is the permit office when bigger work needs one: the City of Edmonds inside, Snohomish County outside.
Water From Spada Reservoir, by Way of Alderwood
The City of Edmonds buys its drinking water from the Alderwood Water & Wastewater District, which buys it from the City of Everett, and it starts at Spada Reservoir at the headwaters of the Sultan River, about 30 miles east of Everett. The meters are the city’s, which is why Willie and Logan confirmed which of the north Edmonds house’s two meters the city would remove before they cut into either line.
Condos From the Bowl to Highway 99
Edmonds has condominium buildings from the Bowl to the Highway 99 corridor, and in a condo the faucet is yours while the pipe behind the wall may belong to the association. A unit shutoff that cannot be trusted can mean closing the water to the whole building, as our condo toilet replacement in east Edmonds shows.
New Fixtures Sold in Washington
Washington requires new lavatory and kitchen faucets and shower heads sold in the state to meet California’s efficiency standards (RCW 19.260.040). Before a new, lower-flow shower head goes onto an existing pressure-balancing valve, read the valve’s label: the 2016 Kohler valve near Perrinville is rated for heads of 1.7 gallons a minute or more.
How We Handle an Edmonds Faucet Call
Find Out What Kind of Faucet It Is
We read the maker and model off the faucet or the valve’s label, and look at the stops, supply lines and drain before we quote anything.
Shut Off as Little as Possible
Where a valve has its own stops we close those instead of the whole house, and we find the main shutoff before we need it.
Repair With the Maker’s Part, or Replace
A sound body gets a new cartridge, balancer or stem from its maker. A body that leaks gets a new faucet, yours or ours.
Test It the Way You Use It
We run hot and cold, switch between tub and shower, fill and drain each sink, and show you the result before the trim goes back on.
Faucet Repair FAQ for Edmonds
My Edmonds address is outside the city limits. Does that change a faucet repair?
Not the repair itself. North of the city toward Picnic Point, many Edmonds addresses are unincorporated Snohomish County, including two houses where we replaced a broken shower cartridge and corroded faucets this year. The work is the same on either side of the line; only bigger jobs that need a permit go to the county instead of the city.
Do you charge more to come to Edmonds than to Mukilteo or Everett?
No. Edmonds is part of our regular mainland route, so an Edmonds call carries the same residential dispatch fee as one in Mukilteo or Everett, with no ferry fee like the one on Whidbey Island. We look at the faucet first and tell you what the repair involves before any work starts.
Why does my tub spout drip for a few seconds after I turn the shower off?
Usually because water left standing in the spout is draining out, not because anything is leaking. A drip that keeps going for a minute or more means the cartridge is not sealing. Near Perrinville in July 2026, a new Kohler balancer and control turned a minute-long run into five to eight seconds of drainage.
Can I put a water-saving shower head on my existing shower valve?
Check the valve’s rating first. Many pressure-balancing valves carry a label giving the lowest shower-head flow they are built for, and the Kohler valve in a north Edmonds bathroom is rated for 1.7 gallons a minute or more. Below that flow, the valve may not hold the temperature as steadily as it was designed to.
New shower heads sold in Washington have to meet California’s efficiency standards under state law, so read the number on your valve before you buy.
My powder room sink drains slowly, but nothing is clogged. What is wrong?
It may be airlocking. A basin with no overflow has no second path for air, so a pop-up stopper set too low can hold air in the drain and slow it down even when the pipe is clear. Near Perrinville in June 2026, Willie and Logan found no clog at all, and raising the pop-up fixed it.
Serving Edmonds From Mukilteo
Our shop is on 5th Street in Old Town Mukilteo, and north Edmonds and Perrinville are the closest parts of the city to us, while the Bowl, Five Corners, Westgate and the blocks near Lake Ballinger take a little longer. Edmonds is on our regular route, so a return visit for an ordered part, like the Kohler balancer near Perrinville, comes soon after the part arrives.
Why Edmonds Homeowners Choose Us for Faucet Work
We Read the Label Before We Order
We identify the valve before ordering, which is how the north Edmonds house got the right Kohler balancer and control on one order and one return visit.
Licensed Plumbers on Our Own Crew
Everyone we send holds a plumbing license and works for us, so the plumber who identifies your valve is the one who repairs it.
A One-Year Guarantee
Our workmanship is guaranteed for a full year on every job, faucets and shower valves included.
A Faucet That Drips, Runs or Will Not Shut Off
Call the office and describe what the faucet or shower is doing. A phone photo of the handle, the trim or any label you can find under the sink helps us bring the right part the first time.