Boiler repair & HVAC in The Bronx, Bronx

We serve The Bronx from our Ridgewood shop, about 25+ min away. Plumbing, HVAC, boiler repair, heating, drains and gas piping. Emergency calls answered 24/7.

About 43 percent of the Bronx's housing was built before 1950, with the bulk of that stock concentrated in the pre-war apartment buildings along the Grand Concourse and the South Bronx corridors that went up during the 1920s subway expansion — nearly 160,000 new-law apartments were added to the borough in the 1920s alone. Like Manhattan, these buildings almost universally rely on one-pipe steam heat: a basement boiler, aging steam mains, and cast-iron radiators, with galvanized supply piping throughout the original construction. The remaining stock is post-war public housing and mid-rise construction from the 1950s and 1960s, where copper supply lines and early forced-hot-water systems are now reaching the end of their useful life. We serve the Bronx for steam boiler replacement and repiping, supply line work in pre-war multi-families, and boiler-to-HVAC conversions in buildings finally retiring their original systems.

We own a Grand Concourse apartment building from the 1920s — who is responsible for steam piping inside individual apartments?

In a Bronx rental building, the owner is responsible for all heating equipment including the risers, distribution mains, and radiators — heat is a required service under the warranty of habitability, and tenants cannot be held responsible for the heating infrastructure. Branch pipes within apartment walls are typically the building's responsibility as well, since they serve the heating system. Fixture supply lines and drain connections within apartments are a gray area that depends on the lease, but heating system components throughout are the building owner's obligation to maintain.

We need to replace the boiler in our Bronx building — how disruptive is that to tenants?

A building boiler replacement in the Bronx is typically a 2–5 day project depending on building size. We schedule the work in warmer months when possible to minimize tenant impact. When winter timing is unavoidable, we stage the switchover: the new boiler is fully installed and piped before the old one is disconnected, reducing the actual no-heat window to hours. Tenant notification is required under city regulations, and we coordinate the inspection and permit process as part of the job.