Same-day & emergency service available · Serving Minneapolis–St. Paul

Loon Plumbing

Plumber in Fridley, MN

Same-day service · Free estimates · Upfront flat-rate pricing

A river town on the sand plain, built in the postwar boom and rebuilt again after 1965 — Fridley's plumbing runs deeper than its ranch-house fronts let on. We know what's down there, and we quote a flat price before we touch a thing.

  • 5.0 on Google
  • MN License PM652496
  • Family-owned · 6 years

Local knowledge

We're local to Fridley — actually local

Not a national franchise, not a call center routing you to whoever's available. We're a family plumbing company, and Fridley is a city we work all the time — the ramblers around Moore Lake, the riverside streets of Riverview Heights, and the blocks running north toward Springbrook.

Fridley is a postwar suburb with a twist: a big share of it was rebuilt all at once after the 1965 tornado, so the plumbing vintages here cluster block by block instead of blending together. Half the job is knowing which era you're standing in before the first wrench comes out — and that's a read you only get from a lot of Fridley basements.

The Mississippi River at Riverfront Regional Park in Fridley, Minnesota
Photo: Tony Webster / CC BY-SA 2.0

Know your city

What Fridley throws at its plumbing

Your water isn't river water — it's hard water from deep wells

It's an easy mistake: Minneapolis's giant Mississippi River intake sits right on Fridley's riverbank below I-694, so people assume the whole city drinks from the river. It doesn't. Fridley runs its own utility on thirteen deep wells, drawing from the Prairie du Chien–Jordan and Mt. Simon aquifers. After traveling through ancient limestone and dolomite, that groundwater reaches your tap hard — roughly 12 to 17 grains per gallon. The city treats and disinfects it but doesn't soften it, so scale on your heater, fixtures, and glass shower doors is left for you to manage.

A postwar suburb with a rebuilt-all-at-once middle

Most of Fridley went up in the postwar rush — the population jumped past 15,000 in the 1950s and topped 30,000 by the '70s, wave after wave of ramblers and split-levels. Then on May 6, 1965, two F4 tornadoes tore straight through and destroyed 425 homes and damaged 1,100 more — roughly one house in four. Whole blocks were rebuilt in 1965 and '66. The result is plumbing that clusters by vintage: early-'50s galvanized in one pocket, mid-'60s rebuild copper a few streets over. We read which era we're in before we quote a repair.

Sand plain, river, and a high water table

Fridley is a long ribbon of land along the Mississippi at the southern edge of the Anoka Sand Plain, laced with Rice Creek, Locke Lake, and the Moore Lakes. Sandy soil and a river-fed water table mean groundwater sits high under a lot of Fridley basements — and when spring melt or a hard summer downpour raises it further, water finds its way in. Here a sump pump isn't optional insurance; it's the thing standing between a high water table and your basement floor.

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What we do here

Plumbing services in Fridley

From our customers

5.0 on Google

“Our water heater died on a Sunday and they had a new one in Monday morning. The price he quoted on the phone walkthrough was the price on the invoice.”

— Angela M.

“Finally a plumber who didn't try to sell us a whole system. He fixed the valve, showed us what to watch for, and left the utility room cleaner than he found it.”

— Kevin T.

Why Fridley homeowners call us first

  • A clear, flat-rate price you approve before work starts
  • A clean home when we leave — floor mats, shoe covers, haul-away
  • Done right, or we come back and make it right
  • Licensed & insured — MN Master Plumber PM652496
  • Family-owned, 6 years in the Twin Cities

Service area

All of Fridley is our territory

Riverview Heights to Moore Lake to the Springbrook end — we cover every corner of Fridley with the same same-day service and flat-rate pricing.

Proudly serving Fridley and nearby: Columbia Heights, Blaine, Spring Lake Park, Coon Rapids, Mounds View.See the full service area →

Good to know

Fridley questions, answered straight

Do you offer same-day service in Fridley?

Yes — same-day service is the standard in Fridley, not the exception. Call and we'll give you an honest arrival window, not a four-hour guess that becomes eight.

Are you licensed to work in Fridley?

Yes. We hold Minnesota Master Plumber license PM652496, we're insured, and when a job needs a permit we pull it through the City of Fridley and meet the inspector ourselves. Permit costs are part of the flat-rate price you approve up front.

Is Fridley's water river water? Does the city soften it?

It's not river water — that's a common mix-up, because Minneapolis's big Mississippi River intake sits right on Fridley's riverbank below I-694. But that plant serves Minneapolis. Fridley runs its own utility on thirteen deep wells, and that groundwater arrives hard — roughly 12 to 17 grains per gallon. The city treats and disinfects it but does not soften it, so a home softener is what protects your water heater and fixtures from scale. We test at your tap and size it to your actual water.

Our house was rebuilt after the 1965 tornado. Is the plumbing a problem?

Not automatically — a lot of that mid-'60s rebuild copper is still in good shape. What we watch for are the originals around it: shutoff valves seized open, galvanized sections in the older pockets of Fridley rusting shut from the inside, and drain lines re-sloped by sixty years of settling. We'd rather show you what you actually have and plan around it than pitch a whole-house repipe you may never need.

Why does my sewer line back up every year or two?

In Fridley that rhythm almost always means tree roots working into the joints of a sixty-year-old clay lateral on a schedule. A camera inspection shows the actual damage, you see the footage too, and then you can weigh routine clearing against a permanent fix with real numbers.

Do you charge extra to come to Fridley?

No. No travel surcharge, no service-call games — Fridley is home turf for us. You get a free estimate and a flat-rate price before any work starts, same as every city we serve.

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