OVERVIEWCommercial Plumbing in Sherwood, OR
Sherwood Plumbing provides commercial plumbing — water-heater replacement, custom fabrication, and recurring service — across the Portland metro, from a shop headquartered in Sherwood with close to 20 years of field experience. Most people know Sherwood Plumbing for the residential side — the calls when the water heater goes out at 6am, the slab leak that surfaced on a Tigard tile floor. Quieter, but growing fast, is the commercial work we do across the Portland metro.
That includes recurring service for retirement communities, custom fabrication for commercial facilities, and the kind of one-off project where someone phones around looking for a shop that’ll actually engineer the solution rather than say no. Devin’s been a working plumber for close to 20 years, and a lot of what we’re known for locally is solving problems other shops walk away from. Commercial work is where that depth shows up.
NEED A PLUMBER NOW?Call or text (503) 822-5070
WHAT'S INCLUDEDWhat does commercial plumbing service include?
Commercial plumbing service covers water-heater replacement, custom fabrication, recurring maintenance, backflow repair, gas piping, and sewer-line work for commercial sites across the Portland metro.
Commercial water-heater replacement
Multi-unit retirement communities, dental offices, restaurants, light industrial. Bulk tank replacement, tankless conversions, and recirculation-loop work. We’ve done bulk water-heater replacement projects for retirement communities in the area — the kind of work where staging and uptime matter as much as the install itself.
Custom commercial fabrication
When the off-the-shelf solution doesn’t exist, this is where we help. We did a one-off custom dust-prevention system for Recology that we’re proud of — the kind of project that started as “we can’t find anyone to build this” and ended with a working system on their floor. If you’re a commercial operator who’s been told “we don’t do that,” we want to hear about it.
Recurring commercial service
Property managers, multi-unit residential, commercial buildings with regular plumbing needs. Predictable scheduling, one consistent contact, and crews who know your building rather than rotating in and out.
Backflow repair and replacement
On commercial assemblies (irrigation, fire suppression interfaces). We don’t do annual testing — that’s a separate certification — but we handle the repair and replacement work when an assembly fails.
Gas piping for commercial appliances
Commercial gas-fired water heaters, kitchen equipment, rooftop unit hookups. Permitted, code-compliant, and engineered to the actual BTU loads the equipment requires.
Sewer-line work on commercial sites
Camera inspection, spot repair, replacement. We’ve worked the kind of older-stack commercial buildings where the laterals are a mix of cast iron, clay, and Orangeburg from three different eras.
GOOD TO KNOWWhy do commercial customers choose Sherwood Plumbing?
We solve problems others can’t. This is the actual top-line answer when Devin gets asked “why you?” There are plenty of plumbers in the Portland metro who can run copper. Far fewer who can engineer a one-off custom system, diagnose a recurring failure that everyone else has missed, or stage a multi-unit replacement around a working business.
We diagnose first, then quote. We don’t price commercial work over the phone. We come to the site, see what we’re actually working with — the existing piping, the access, the constraints — and give you a written estimate. For larger projects we collect a deposit at the start and work through a milestone pay schedule. No surprises on the invoice.
We show up the way we want to find your site. Clean, respectful, organized. Trucks stocked with parts. The crew that arrives is the crew that does the work. The same standard we hold on a residential service call applies on a commercial job.
We educate as we go. Property managers and facilities folks tend to like working with us because we’ll tell you what we’re seeing. The recirculation pump that’s about to fail. The water-heater bank that’s running on borrowed time. The gas pressure that’s marginal. That kind of advance notice keeps your downtime planned rather than emergent.
THE DETAILSWhat commercial projects has Sherwood Plumbing completed?
Recent commercial projects include a custom dust-prevention system for Recology and bulk tank water-heater replacement for a retirement community.
Recology — custom dust-prevention system
A one-off custom dust-prevention system, designed and installed at Recology’s facility. Not a catalog product, not something we’d done before, not something they could find from another shop. We have photos and video of the finished work — ask us if you want to see what custom commercial fabrication actually looks like.
Retirement community — tank water-heater replacement
Bulk replacement of tank water heaters across a retirement community. The work has to happen with minimal disruption to residents — staging matters, hot-water uptime matters, and so does the installer’s ability to work in occupied spaces respectfully. This is the kind of recurring relationship we build into.
OUR PROCESSHow does a commercial plumbing project get started?
A commercial engagement starts with a call or email to schedule a site walk, and straightforward replacement work is often quoted on that same visit.
Phone or email — (503) 822-5070, or office@sherwoodplumbingcompany.com.
We’ll typically come walk the site to understand the scope. For straightforward replacement work — a single water heater, a backflow assembly, a piped-in commercial appliance — we can quote the same visit. For larger projects (custom fabrication, multi-unit replacement, anything with engineering content), we’ll bring back what we saw, write the estimate at the office with documentation, and send it over for review.
For ongoing commercial relationships, we set up a recurring schedule and a single point of contact so you’re not re-explaining your building every time we show up.
ABOUT SHERWOOD PLUMBINGAbout the shop
Sherwood Plumbing has been running since 2013 under Devin Drew Adams. We’re headquartered in Sherwood, the only plumbing company actually based in town. Our techs know the housing stock around here: the 1970s gas tank in a Sherwood ranch, the 2015 tankless in a Villebois build, the electric tank in a Cedar Hills postwar home. That local knowledge is the difference between a diagnosis that takes 20 minutes and one that takes two hours.
We carry $1,000,000 in general liability through Contractors Bonding & Insurance. Oregon CCB license #200851 (Plumbing, Residential RGC General Contractor). PB1381 with the Oregon Building Codes Division. $25,000 surety bond. 220 Google reviews at 4.7 stars.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONSFrequently asked questions
Yes — for projects with engineering content (custom fabrication, multi-unit replacement, anything that requires staging or sequencing), we’ll come walk the site and write a formal estimate. Straightforward service work and replacement we can typically quote on the same on-site visit.
We work recurring schedules with property managers, retirement communities, and commercial property owners. Reach out and tell us about your building — we’ll talk through what cadence and scope makes sense.
Yes. Oregon CCB #200851 covers commercial plumbing within our scope. $1M general liability. $25K surety bond. We can provide certificates of insurance to your facility manager or general contractor on request.
Repair and replacement, yes. Annual certification testing is a separate certification we don’t currently hold — for that we’ll refer you out to a certified tester.
We don’t run a 24/7 commercial emergency desk. For after-hours commercial events, we’ll take the call during business hours and prioritize the response — but for a true off-hours emergency, you’ll want a shop that explicitly offers that. Ask us upfront about the kind of response you need.