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Hollywood grew up in waves, and each wave of construction left its own fingerprint on the pipes beneath the floor. Before we quote a job, we ask how old the house is. That single answer usually predicts the problem.

Homes from the older building booms typically ran on galvanized steel supply pipe, and that material narrows from the inside as it ages, choking off pressure long before anyone notices a leak. In Liberia, one of the city's longest-established neighborhoods, we've traced more than a few weak-shower complaints straight back to corroded interior walls of galvanized line that nobody had touched since the house was built.

Head toward Boulevard Heights and the pattern holds. Original supply lines are still doing their best decades past their intended life, and it shows up as pinhole leaks that stain a ceiling before anyone finds the source. When we see that, we talk repiping honestly instead of selling another spot repair that will fail again in a year.

Newer construction closer to Beverly Park tends to run copper or PEX, so the failures there skew toward water heaters and fixture connections rather than whole-house corrosion. Knowing that difference street by street is how we show up with the right parts on the truck the first time, not the second.