Sam & Sons Services LLC is a licensed Northern Virginia contractor based in Alexandria and working since 1999. One company holds the Virginia DPOR license and carries five trades — plumbing, HVAC, electrical, handyman and remodeling — so a single contractor answers for the whole job. An estimator sees the property and puts the price in writing before any work begins. On permitted work we pull and process the permit ourselves, build to the Virginia building code, and close the job out only after the final inspection passes.
About Sam & Sons Services: five trades under one license
Sam & Sons Services LLC has worked out of Alexandria since 1999. The office is at 5649-C General Washington Drive, Alexandria, Virginia 22312, and the phone number has been the same for most of that time: (703) 256-8080.
What makes the company unusual is not its age. It is that one licensed contractor takes responsibility for all five trades on one contract:
- Plumbing — water heaters, drains and sewers, fixtures, valves, gas piping, water service lines.
- Heating and cooling — furnaces, air conditioning, heat pumps, boilers, thermostats, ductwork and indoor air quality.
- Electrical — panels, circuits, outlets and switches, lighting, ceiling fans, EV chargers.
- Handyman and home repair — doors, windows, drywall, trim and rotted wood, siding, roofs, gutters, decks, tile, painting and flooring.
- Remodeling — bathrooms, kitchens, basements and additions.
That matters on real jobs, because real jobs rarely stay inside one trade. A bathroom remodel is plumbing, electrical, drywall, tile and paint. A finished basement needs framing, wiring, a permit and often a bathroom rough-in. A water heater replacement can turn into a gas line correction and a bonding repair before it is signed off. When all of that sits under one license, nobody is pointing at another trade when something does not line up — one company answers for the whole job.
What being a licensed, bonded and insured Virginia contractor means
The company holds Virginia DPOR class A contractor license #2705070610 and is licensed, bonded and insured for residential and light commercial work. That combination is worth understanding rather than skimming:
- Licensed
- The Commonwealth has verified the qualifying individual’s experience and examination, and the license can be looked up publicly by number. A class A license is the tier without a project value ceiling, which is what permits the additions and whole-house work.
- Bonded
- A surety bond stands behind the contractor’s obligations on the work, which is also what allows permits to be pulled in the company’s own name in the jurisdictions we build in.
- Insured
- General liability and workers’ compensation cover are in place, so a fall or a burst supply line on your property is not a question you have to answer.
Ask any contractor for a license number before they touch anything. If they cannot give you one, or the number belongs to a different entity than the one writing the contract, that is the whole conversation.
How a job runs with an estimator, start to finish
We do not quote prices by telephone and we do not publish them, because two jobs that sound identical on the phone are routinely not. The process instead looks like this:
- You call or send the details. Tell us what is failing, whether the appliance is gas or electric, roughly how old it is, and where in the property it sits. See contact for what to have ready.
- An estimator comes to the property. He looks at the actual installation — access, venting, what the last installer did or skipped, the condition of what surrounds the work.
- You get the price in writing before anything starts. Scope, materials, permit and processing where one applies, and what is excluded. Nothing begins until you have that document.
- The work is scheduled and performed to the Virginia building code. Dust containment, floor and furniture protection, and debris removal and cleanup are part of the job, not extras.
- Permitted work closes out at inspection. We hold back the final portion of the payment until the inspection has passed.
- The labor warranty starts. One year on the labor we have done.
Permits, inspections and Virginia building code
Across the company’s own contract record, permit language appears on hundreds of jobs, and the pattern is consistent: the permit is pulled and processed by us, the work is performed to the Virginia building code, and the final inspection happens before the job is closed and the last payment is released. In the District of Columbia, the same work is performed to District of Columbia code.
There is a reason we handle the paperwork rather than handing it to the homeowner. A permit pulled in the homeowner’s name makes the homeowner the responsible party for code compliance on work they did not perform. When we pull it, the inspector’s conversation is with us.
Permits are not required on every job. A repair — an element, a cartridge, a run of trim, a fixture swap — generally is not permitted work. Replacements, panel upgrades, gas piping, additions and finished basements generally are. The estimator will tell you which one you have, in writing, before you commit.
Materials a Northern Virginia contractor should be standardizing on
Consistency in materials is the least glamorous part of a contracting business and one of the most reliable signals of one. These are the items that recur through our own job files, by trade:
| Where | What we standardize on | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Water heaters | Thermal expansion tank, drain pan, isolation valves, dielectric separation at the connections | Almost every house here is a closed system behind a pressure reducing valve. Without expansion control the pressure spikes on every heating cycle. |
| Plumbing repairs | Copper pipe in 1/2 inch and 3/4 inch, p-traps, trap adapters, supply lines, wax seals, vacuum breakers, drain line treatment | Standard parts mean a truck that is actually stocked and a repair that is finished on the first visit. |
| Wet-area walls and tile | Durock cement board, acrylic-fortified and sanded grout, silicone and polyurethane caulk | Cement board does not turn to paste behind a shower the way the wrong board does. |
| Drywall and ceilings | 1/2 inch drywall glued and screwed, joint tape and compound, stain-killer primer | Glued and screwed board stops the nail pops and the seam cracks coming back. |
| Water damage and mold | Concrobium mold control, mold treatment and stain-blocking primer before new board goes up | Framing gets treated and stain-blocked before it is covered, so nothing is sealed in behind the repair. |
| Doors and exteriors | Threshold flashing, rot-resistant composite brick molding, lockset and deadbolt sets, fiberglass insulation and air sealing | Flashing under a new threshold is what stops the next rotted subfloor. |
The same discipline shows up in method. Copper piping is re-bonded after it is cut, because in a lot of these houses the water piping is part of the grounding path. Systems are drained down before valve work rather than after. Dust barriers go up on interior work. See water pressure, PRVs and shut-off valves for how much of this traces back to one component.
Homes and commercial properties we work in across Northern Virginia
The bulk of the company’s work is single-family homes, which is what the Northern Virginia housing stock mostly is. But the contract record also carries a steady volume of condominiums, townhouses, apartment and multifamily buildings, and commercial properties — offices, restaurants and tenant spaces.
Those are genuinely different jobs. A condo means building management, a shared riser and a scheduled water shut-off. A tenant space means working around an operating business. A townhouse means party walls and access that a detached house never has. See commercial plumbing for how commercial work is scheduled differently.
Geographically, the company works across Northern Virginia and Washington DC. All five trades are available across the Virginia service area. In the District, we take handyman, electrical and remodeling work; plumbing and HVAC are not offered there.
Warranty, financing and standing behind licensed work
Every job carries a one-year warranty on our labor. Two honest limits on that: drain cleaning and drain repair are excluded from the labor warranty, because a line we clear is a line whose condition we did not create; and a job where you supply the materials carries no warranty, though we will still install them.
Financing is available through Wells Fargo for larger work, and the estimator can walk through it at the same visit. Details of current seasonal offers and financing terms are given when you book — see coupons and current offers.
The office is open Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, and Saturday 9:00am to 12:00pm. Sunday is closed. The emergency line is answered 24 hours a day, every day, because water and heat do not keep office hours. If you are a tradesperson who works this way, careers is where to start.