Boiler repair & HVAC in Staten Island, Staten Island

We serve Staten Island from our Ridgewood shop, about 45+ min away. Plumbing, HVAC, boiler repair, heating, drains and gas piping. Emergency calls answered 24/7.

Staten Island is the youngest and most suburban of the five boroughs — the median construction year is 1973, and only about 17 percent of the housing stock predates 1940. The dominant building type is the one- and two-family detached or semi-detached house, which accounts for over 80 percent of units; much of it was built in the post-war decades following the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connection to Brooklyn in 1964. Plumbing in this stock is predominantly copper supply with cast-iron drain systems, though galvanized pipe segments are common in the earliest post-war builds. We work Staten Island for water heater replacements, boiler and baseboard heating upgrades, copper re-pipes in homes that retained original galvanized runs, and bathroom gut renovations in the two-family stock.

Our Staten Island house was built in the mid-1950s — should we be concerned about the original plumbing?

A 1950s Staten Island home with unmodified original plumbing has copper supply that's now 70 years old and cast-iron DWV that's the same age. Copper from the 1950s is reaching the end of its reliable lifespan — pinhole leaks at fittings and elbows are the first sign. Cast-iron DWV from that era typically holds up well on vertical runs but may have cracked or scaled sections at the horizontal base runs. A pressure test and basement inspection will tell you which systems need attention without opening walls.

We want to add a bathroom to our Staten Island two-family — what does the plumbing involve?

Adding a bathroom in a Staten Island two-family means rough-in for cold water supply, hot water supply, drain (connected to the existing stack or a new drain run to the main), and a vent. The drain routing is the key constraint — we need to establish where the new drain can connect with the correct pitch and how it ties into the existing system. We'll assess the layout and recommend whether to connect to the existing stack or run a new line, then provide a rough-in estimate with permit included.