Plumbing Across L.A.

The neighborhood paper about the pipes under Los Angeles houses

Picture credits

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Real photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under the licences shown. Some were cropped. Where a photograph of the exact thing was not available, this paper used a picture made by computer. When one of those runs large on a page, its caption says AI-generated picture. They show the kind of thing being discussed, never a particular house.

Photographs
PictureByLicenceFile
Michigan Avenue in Pasadena's Bungalow Heaven.TheCatalyst31CC BY-SA 3.0Source page
More of Michigan Avenue, Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena.TheCatalyst31CC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Bungalows in Jefferson Park, Los Angeles.ChristopheraweedCC BY-SA 4.0Source page
A Victorian in Angelino Heights, next to Echo Park.Konrad SummersCC BY-SA 2.0Source page
A house on Echo Street, Los Angeles.DowntowngalCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
St. Andrews Bungalow Court, Los Angeles.Los AngelesCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
A 1950s ranch-style house in California.Mcheath at English WikipediaPublic domainSource page
A street in Sherman Oaks.Clotee Pridgen AllochukuCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Overhead wires and old trees in Sherman Oaks.Clotee Pridgen AllochukuCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Houses on the Venice canals.Megha GuptaCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Burned blocks in the Los Angeles area, January 2025.The White HousePublic domainSource page
Belmont Heights, Long Beach.Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USACC BY-SA 2.0Source page
A house on 10th Street, San Pedro.Los AngelesCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Leimert Park, Los Angeles.Arspickles17CC BY-SA 3.0Source page
3800 block of South Norton Avenue, Los Angeles.DowntowngalCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
A house on East 10th Street, Burbank.Alexis DoineCC0Source page
A house after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.Andrea BooherPublic domainSource page
The Los Angeles Aqueduct cascades at Sylmar.Los AngelesCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Silver Lake Reservoir and the houses on the hill behind it.JunkyardsparkleCC0Source page
Pacific Electric Red Car 418, preserved.CALChuxCC BY-SA 2.0Source page
A Spanish-style house in West Los Angeles.Los AngelesCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
Jacarandas in bloom at the Lincoln Heights library.Los AngelesCC BY-SA 3.0Source page
La Brea Avenue through Inglewood, from the air.Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USACC BY-SA 2.0Source page
Hillside houses from the Fryman Canyon overlook.Joe MabelCC BY-SA 4.0Source page
A residential street in Reseda.Clotee Pridgen AllochukuCC BY-SA 3.0Source page

AI-generated pictures

  • A gas meter with an earthquake shutoff valve fitted just past it.
  • A wrench kept near the door, not on the meter.
  • A water heater with one strap high and one strap low.
  • Threaded galvanized pipe with rust at the fittings.
  • A repipe through an opened plaster and lath wall.
  • Running the cold tap before filling a glass.
  • Bottled water while a notice is in effect.
  • An inspection card posted at a job.
  • Going through a written estimate at the table.
  • Rust scale and a crack in a cast iron drain.
  • An old clay lateral exposed in a trench.
  • Fine roots inside a clay sewer pipe.
  • A sewer camera monitor beside the cleanout.
  • A pressure gauge on a hose bib, the usual first check.
  • A damp patch on the slab under a carpet.
  • An attic water heater in its pan.
  • A water meter box in the parkway.
  • Food coloring in the tank for a dye test.
  • A low-flow toilet in an older bathroom.
  • A sprinkler run before 9 a.m.
  • Scale on a shower head.
  • The shared walk of a bungalow court.
  • A postwar ranch house on a wide street.
  • A steep hillside street.
  • A front yard with the lawn replaced.

Videos

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