Boiler repair & HVAC in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

We serve Clinton Hill from our Ridgewood shop, about 15 min away. Plumbing, HVAC, boiler repair, heating, drains and gas piping. Emergency calls answered 24/7.

Clinton Hill's architecture spans two eras: the grand Clinton Avenue mansions built in the 1870s and 1880s for the Pratt family and other wealthy industrialists, and the dense brick and brownstone Italianate and Beaux-Arts rowhouses that filled the surrounding blocks in the same period. By 1900, apartment buildings were replacing some mansions on Clinton and Washington Avenues, with that replacement continuing into the 1920s and 1940s. The result is a neighborhood where the plumbing age varies building by building — mansion conversions and older rowhouses carry pre-1900 iron supply and cast-iron waste systems, the 1910s–1940s apartment buildings have galvanized supply and steam heat, and the Pratt Institute campus adds institutional mechanical systems to the mix.

We're converting a Clinton Hill mansion into apartments — what does a full plumbing rough-in involve in a building that old?

A mansion-to-apartment conversion in Clinton Hill typically involves new vertical supply stacks from the basement water main to each floor, new drain stacks per the unit layout (which may mean cutting through original stone or concrete floors), and rough-in for each new bathroom and kitchen. Buildings from the 1870s–1880s often have original iron supply and cast-iron drains that need to be assessed — some sections may be reusable, but most are replaced as part of the conversion scope. DOB permits and plumbing inspections are required; we handle the full permit filing and inspection process.

Our 1920s Clinton Hill apartment building uses steam heat and we want to add a bathroom to an existing apartment — is that possible?

Adding a bathroom to an apartment in a Clinton Hill steam-heated building is a plumbing rough-in project, not a heating project — the bathroom has its own cold water supply, hot water supply, drain, and vent requirements that are independent of the steam system. The constraint is drain routing: the new drain needs to connect to the existing stack with proper pitch. We can assess whether the stack location and floor construction allow a connection and provide a rough-in estimate.