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

Loon Plumbing

Plumber in Minnetonka, MN

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

Wooded lots, winding streets, and mid-century homes that have been remodeled once a decade for fifty years. Minnetonka plumbing has layers — we read them for a living, and 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 Minnetonka — actually local

Not a national franchise, not a call center routing you to whoever's available. We're a family plumbing company, and Minnetonka is a city we work all the time — the ramblers and split-levels around Glen Lake and Shady Oak, the wooded neighborhoods along Minnehaha and Purgatory creeks, and the blocks around Ridgedale.

Minnetonka homes are well-loved and much-remodeled, which means the plumbing rarely matches the year on the deed. Half the job here is understanding what three generations of projects left behind the walls — and that's a skill you only get by seeing a lot of Minnetonka basements.

Minnetonka Civic Center campus
Photo: Appraiser / Public domain

Know your city

What Minnetonka throws at its plumbing

The city removes the iron — the hardness is all yours

Minnetonka runs eighteen deep wells through eight treatment plants that handle iron, chlorination, and corrosion control — but softening isn't part of the deal, and the city says so itself. Water reaches your tap at roughly 18 to 20 grains per gallon, four times the national average. At that level a properly sized softener isn't a luxury; it's what stands between your water heater, fixtures, and glass shower doors and a steady diet of scale.

Mid-century homes with five decades of remodels

Most of Minnetonka went up between the 1950s and the 1970s — ramblers and split-levels tucked into the trees — and nearly all of them have been remodeled repeatedly since. The result is layered plumbing: original copper (or in the earliest homes, galvanized) spliced to every era of update, shutoff valves old enough to vote seized in place, and fixtures from four different decades sharing one supply line. We map what's actually there and fix the weak links, not the whole house.

Hills, creeks, and thirsty old trees

Minnetonka's rolling, wooded terrain gives it two plumbing signatures. Below ground, the mature oaks and maples that define these lots send roots into clay sewer laterals that have been in the ground for sixty years — recurring backups here are roots on a schedule, not bad luck. At the foundation, hillside walkout basements lean on their sump pumps through every spring melt and every summer downpour that rolls off the slopes.

What we do here

Plumbing services in Minnetonka

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 Minnetonka 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 Minnetonka is our territory

Glen Lake to Ridgedale to the creek corridors — we cover every corner of Minnetonka with the same same-day service and flat-rate pricing.

Proudly serving Minnetonka and nearby: Wayzata, Plymouth, Edina, Golden Valley, Orono.See the full service area →

Good to know

Minnetonka questions, answered straight

Do you offer same-day service in Minnetonka?

Yes — same-day service is the standard in Minnetonka, 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 Minnetonka?

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 Minnetonka and meet the inspector ourselves. Permit costs are part of the flat-rate price you approve up front.

Does Minnetonka soften its city water?

No — and the city is upfront about it. The treatment plants remove iron and disinfect, but hardness passes straight through at roughly 18 to 20 grains per gallon. The city itself points residents to home softening, and at those numbers we agree. We test at your tap and size the softener to your actual water.

Our 1960s rambler still has some original plumbing. Is that a problem?

Not automatically — good mid-century copper can outlast us all. The watch-items are the originals around it: shutoff valves seized open, galvanized sections in the earliest homes rusting shut from the inside, and drain lines re-sloped by decades 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 Minnetonka that rhythm almost always means tree roots — the oaks and maples that make these lots beautiful are 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 Minnetonka?

No. No travel surcharge, no service-call games — Minnetonka 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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