Boiler repair & HVAC in Yonkers, Westchester

We serve Yonkers from our Ridgewood shop, about 35+ min away. Plumbing, HVAC, boiler repair, heating, drains and gas piping. Emergency calls answered 24/7.

Yonkers sits at the city-suburb boundary and its housing reflects that position: about 27 percent of the stock was built before 1940 — dense pre-war apartment buildings in Southwest Yonkers that closely resemble the Bronx neighborhoods directly to the south — with another 44 percent built between 1940 and 1969 as the city expanded into the hills with Cape Cods and brick-veneer apartment complexes. The pre-war multifamily buildings run on the same one-pipe steam systems found throughout the Bronx and northern Manhattan: galvanized steam mains, basement boilers, cast-iron radiators. The post-war single-family stock typically has copper supply, oil-fired boilers or furnaces, and baseboard convectors or forced-air ductwork from the 1950s and 1960s that is now well past replacement age. We cover Yonkers for boiler replacements across both the pre-war apartment and post-war residential stock, steam system repairs, and supply and drain work in older multifamily buildings.

We have a pre-war apartment building in Southwest Yonkers on steam heat — what does a full boiler replacement involve?

A steam boiler replacement in a Southwest Yonkers pre-war apartment building involves removing the existing boiler, installing a new high-efficiency cast-iron steam boiler of the correct capacity, reconnecting the steam mains and condensate return, and replacing the main vents and low-water cutoff. Permit filing with the City of Yonkers and a final inspection are required. The project typically takes 3–5 days. We size the new boiler from an EDR (equivalent direct radiation) survey of the radiators, not just the old boiler's rating — oversized boilers cause the pressure and efficiency problems that plagued many original installations.

Our 1950s Yonkers house still has the original oil boiler — is it worth converting to gas?

A 1950s oil boiler is 70-plus years old and due for replacement on age alone. If Con Edison has gas service available on your block (which covers most of Yonkers), a gas boiler replacement is typically the right direction — lower fuel costs, better efficiency, and elimination of the oil tank. The tank itself has regulatory implications as it ages. We can confirm gas availability at your address and provide a full estimate on a gas boiler replacement including the oil tank decommissioning, which is a separate but necessary step.