Plumbing in Rochester does not keep business hours, so neither do we. Our Rochester coverage runs from Park Avenue through South Wedge and out to neighbouring Hornell and Elmira, with one flat price for the job whether you call at nine in the morning or three in the morning.
Each service below has its own Rochester page with local detail, response times and what the work typically involves.
Rochester sits in the Finger Lakes, where the housing stock is older village centres, lakefront cottages and newer subdivisions, with a lot of seasonal shut-off and re-open work. That combination produces a fairly predictable set of calls.
Winter is the big one. New York gives us freeze-thaw swings that crack seasonal supply lines and shift older sewer laterals, so from December onward a large share of Rochester calls are frozen lines, split pipes discovered during a thaw, and failed sump pumps when the melt arrives.
The other constant is water quality. Rochester is served by very hard well and lake water in outlying areas, which is rough on water heaters and softeners, which is why water heater failures and scaled fixtures come up so often here compared with softer-water parts of the country.
Older Rochester properties around Park Avenue and South Wedge often still have their original drain stacks and supply lines. That means root intrusion in clay sewer laterals, pinhole leaks in ageing copper, and galvanised supply pipe that has slowly closed up and taken the water pressure with it.
Call (888) 809-6756. Tell us what you can see and we will tell you what to shut off while a truck is dispatched to you.
We ask three or four questions to work out whether you should shut the main off before we arrive.
You get an arrival window, not a vague promise, and a text when the plumber is on the way.
Containing the leak comes first. Diagnosis comes second, once nothing is getting worse.
You approve a flat price for the fix before any work begins. No hourly meter running.
The phone rings through to a person every hour of every day, including holidays. Overnight calls get a truck, not a callback in the morning.
You hear the price for the job before we start and that is the number on the invoice. Nothing changes because the work took longer than expected.
You get a time based on where the nearest truck actually is, and a message when the plumber is on the way. Not an eight-hour window.
If a part will fix it, we fit the part. We tell you when replacement is genuinely the better value and we explain why.
Camera footage of your sewer line, the failed part in your hand, the meter test in front of you. You decide with the same information we have.
Drop cloths down, work area cleared, old units hauled away. The job is not done until the space is the way you would want to find it.
Water heater died the morning we had family arriving. New one in and running by two o'clock.
Ken W.
Restaurant kitchen line clogged an hour before service. They jetted it and we opened on time.
Nadia F.
Sewer camera before we bought the house found a collapsed section. Saved us a fortune in negotiation.
Tom & Rita J.
No. Work in Rochester is priced by the job, and you approve that price before we start. A midnight call and a Tuesday afternoon call are quoted the same way.
When you call we give you a real arrival window based on where the nearest truck is. Most emergency calls in Rochester and around Park Avenue are on site within a couple of hours.
All of Rochester, including Park Avenue, South Wedge, Nineteenth Ward, Charlotte, plus the surrounding Finger Lakes towns such as Hornell, Elmira and Corning.
Yes. Restaurants, offices, retail units, warehouses and multi-unit residential buildings throughout Rochester, usually scheduled outside your trading hours so the doors stay open.
For an emergency we give you a real arrival window when you call, based on where the nearest truck is. Most emergency calls are on site within a couple of hours.
All the cities and towns listed on this site across New York, from Buffalo and Rochester through Syracuse and the Capital Region down to the Hudson Valley and New York City.
In most cases yes. Call early and we will normally fit you in that day. Emergencies go to the front of the queue whatever the hour.
If you are just outside Rochester, we probably already work on your street.
Call and describe what you are seeing. We will tell you whether to shut the main off, give you a real arrival window, and quote a flat price before anything starts.