Our Work
Every photograph on this page is a job this shop did. No stock pictures, no catalog shots of equipment nobody here has touched, and nothing borrowed from a manufacturer’s brochure. They were taken on site, mostly in basements, mostly with a phone, which is the honest way this kind of work gets photographed.
Why a Plumbing Gallery Looks Like This
A plumbing and heating gallery is a strange thing at first glance, because most of what a good job looks like is hidden the moment it is finished. The wall goes back, the tile goes on, the basement light gets switched off, and the part that took the skill is behind something. So what follows is a mix: the finished rooms you would see if you walked in, and the mechanical rooms you would only see if you went looking.
Mechanical and Heating
The rooms most of this work happens in, and the part of a job that is behind a wall or a cellar door by the time anybody sees the result.
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Bathrooms and Finished Spaces
The finished rooms are here because they answer a question people ask before they call: does this shop do neat work in a finished space, or only in a cellar.
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Old Buildings and Tight Spaces
The basements in these photographs are the basements this area has: stone foundations, brick, low joists, and pipework from several different decades running in the same ceiling.
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Want to Talk About Your Own Job?
Tell us what you have and what is wrong with it. Photographs help on our end too: one picture of your boiler’s data plate or the underside of your sink usually answers more than a long description.
The services behind these photographs are described in full on the services page, including heating, water heaters and fixture work.
Questions We Hear
Do You Do Both Plumbing and Heating?
Both, under one roof, which is why a cold radiator and the leak under it are one visit rather than two. Every category is on the all services page.
Which Towns Do You Work In?
Quincy, Dorchester, Milton, Weymouth and Braintree each have a page of their own, written about the buildings in them rather than about the town. The rest of the South Shore is on the towns we cover page.
Do You Pull Permits?
Yes. Massachusetts requires a permit before plumbing work is installed, altered or replaced, and it is filed by the licensed contractor rather than by you. The work is inspected afterwards, which is the one independent look anybody takes at it.
Do You Work in Three Deckers and Condo Buildings?
Regularly. A fifth of Quincy’s housing is in two to four unit buildings, so the shared basement is familiar ground. The first thing we establish is whether the building runs one appliance per unit or one for everybody.
Will You Take the Old Equipment Away?
Yes. Removal and disposal are part of the job. An old cast iron boiler in a Quincy basement is a real piece of work to get out, sometimes in sections and usually up a bulkhead, and that is accounted for rather than left behind.
Do You Work for Landlords and Property Managers?
Yes, alongside homeowners and condo associations. A building that has to keep working while you fix it is planned differently from a house, and written down afterwards for whoever has to be told. The commercial services pages carry that side.
Something Leaking? No Heat? Talk to the Shop.
Send over what is happening and when we can reach you.
What Do You Need?
Casper works out of Quincy, and the trucks run Quincy, Dorchester, Weymouth, Braintree and Milton.