Plumber Serving Sun City, Arizona

About Sun City, Arizona

The Original Del Webb Active-Adult Community

Sun City, Arizona is the original Del Webb active-adult community, opened in January 1960 to national attention and enormous early sales success. The community is an unincorporated area of Maricopa County located east of the City of Surprise proper, west of Peoria, and north of Glendale. Sun City’s Recreation Centers Association manages the community’s recreation centers, golf courses, and shared amenities, but individual home plumbing inside each residence is each homeowner’s responsibility, not covered by any community association fee or program.

Important: Sun City (opened 1960), Sun City Grand (opened 1996, within the City of Surprise), and Sun City West (opened 1978, adjacent to Sun City) are three distinct communities, each with its own homeowner organization, water utility service area, and plumbing age profile. When contacting us, noting which community your home is in helps us bring the right expectations about your home’s plumbing era to the service call.

Plumbing in Sun City’s 1960s-1985 Homes

Sun City homes were built from 1960 through approximately 1985, producing a housing stock now 40 to 65 years old. The earliest Sun City homes from the 1960s were plumbed with galvanized steel supply lines, which are now 55 to 65 years old and corroding from the inside under Maricopa County’s hard-water conditions.

Homes from the 1970s and 1980s have copper supply lines, but copper at 40 to 50 years old in hard-water conditions has also been subject to corrosion and pitting. Whole-home repiping with PEX or copper is the primary plumbing investment for many Sun City homeowners addressing aging supply lines. Sewer lateral repair for clay tile and cast iron laterals from the 1960s and 1970s is also a frequent service in the older Sun City sections.

Hard Water and EPCOR Water in Sun City

EPCOR Water serves much of Sun City and delivers hard Central Arizona Project water at 12 to 20 grains per gallon, the same hard supply that affects Surprise and adjacent communities. Sun City homeowners without a water softener have been receiving scale-depositing water since their homes were built, and the cumulative effect in homes that have never had water treatment is substantial. We install whole-house water softeners throughout Sun City and also service existing softeners that have reached the end of their service life.

Water heaters in Sun City homes represent a range of ages: units installed in the 2000s and 2010s as second or third replacements are now 15 to 25 years old, past the practical service life under Maricopa County hard-water and garage-heat conditions. Water heater evaluation and replacement is one of our most common Sun City service calls.

Services for Sun City Residents

Clarifying Sun City, Sun City Grand, and Sun City West

All three Sun Cities communities are distinct from one another. Sun City (the original 1960 community) is an unincorporated area of Maricopa County east of Surprise. Sun City West (1978) is an unincorporated Maricopa County community adjacent to and west of Sun City. Sun City Grand (1996) is within the City of Surprise’s incorporated limits north of Bell Road. We serve homeowners in all three communities. The Recreation Centers Association or Sun City HOA does not cover individual home plumbing in any of these communities. We work directly with residents for all service calls, including sewer camera inspections, backflow preventer testing for irrigation systems, and 24/7 emergency plumbing response.