General contractors: plumbing and sprinkler scopes priced from the drawings. Homeowners and small-building owners: one person running the job, a written scope before work starts, every test on paper. All five boroughs.
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City water comes in through the foundation wall to the main shutoff and the meter. Right after the meter, a backflow preventer (an RPZ) stops building water from ever flowing back into the city main. It is tested every year by a state-certified tester, and the report goes to DEP, the city water department.
Copper runs up the building in one main pipe (the riser), with a branch to each floor. The riser and every branch get their own shutoff valve. A leak upstairs means one floor without water, not the whole building.
Plenty of New York buildings put a business downstairs and homes upstairs, so this one does too. The restaurant sink drains through a grease interceptor that catches fat before the sewer; the apartment bathroom sits above. Every fixture gets its own shutoff, so one can be repaired without turning off the rest.
Cast-iron drain pipe falls a quarter inch per foot, so waste moves on its own. Under every fixture a trap holds a little water to block sewer smell, and a vent to the roof lets it drain without gurgling. Before the street, the house trap stands between the building and the city sewer.
The heater gets a relief pipe ending just above the floor, so a safety discharge cannot hurt anyone, and an expansion tank that takes up the pressure as water heats. A return loop with its own pump keeps hot water moving, so the far tap runs hot in seconds, not minutes.
Sprinklers get their own pipe from the street: a main valve just inside the street wall that shows at a glance whether it is open, a backflow device, and an alarm that sounds when water starts to flow. Firefighters can pump in more water through the fire department connection on the front wall. Inside, each space gets the head it needs.
Before a wall or ceiling closes, the heater and the fire service are valved off and the pipes are filled, pumped up and watched. Water lines hold 150 psi, or 50 over working pressure if that is higher, for 15 minutes. Sprinklers hold 200 psi, or 50 over, for 1 hour. If the gauge drops, the leak is found now, not after the tile. Every test is logged before the inspection.
Fit-outs, new work and building systems for general contractors, owners and property managers. Bid from the drawings, scheduled by week, closed out with documentation.
For homeowners, co-op and condo owners and small-building landlords: bathroom and kitchen plumbing, water heaters, leaks, drains and old pipes replaced. The cause found first, the price in writing, one person running the job.
Each one starts the same way: understand the system, write the scope, price it. Then the work, the test, the documents.
Restaurants, retail, offices, medical. Demolition to close-out under a GC schedule.
Send the plan set. Get a priced proposal by position, with alternates and unit prices.
New pipes for a new layout, then fixtures and appliances hooked up. Tested before the tile goes on.
Leaks, valves, toilets, faucets, low pressure, burst pipes. Cause first, then the repair.
The right size, tank or tankless, safely vented, hot water that reaches the far tap fast. Homes and buildings.
Camera inspection first. Then jetting, cable or repair: whichever the pipe needs.
The device that keeps your building water out of the city supply: the plan, the installation, the yearly test and the report DEP asks for.
Old steel water pipes and worn drain pipes replaced in stages, while people keep living in the building.
Heads and mains for fit-outs, heads moved when apartment walls or ceilings change, fire services. From the drawings to the DOB sign-off.
Not on this list? Send the drawings or describe the job: we say plainly whether it is ours to take.
Plumbing and sprinkler scopes bid from your set, scheduled by week, closed out with documentation. One proposal format for every job.
Riser and stack replacement in occupied buildings, hot-water plants, sprinkler work, drain and sewer problems that keep coming back.
Bathroom and kitchen plumbing, water heaters, leaks, drains, old pipes replaced. One person runs the job, explains it plainly and sees it inspected where a permit applies.
The plan set for a fit-out; the layout, the photos and a site visit for a home. Fixtures counted, runs measured, the questions asked before the number is given.
A written scope and a written price. On commercial work: a proposal by position with alternates and unit prices. What is included is listed. What is not is listed too.
The right material for each pipe, supported properly, nothing closed up before it is tested and inspected. On commercial work: hangers at the spacing NYC Plumbing Code 308.5 sets, no-hub cast iron to CISPI 310.
Every pressure test logged. Water lines at 150 psi or 50 over working pressure, whichever is higher; new sprinkler piping at 200 psi or 50 over. Alterations in occupied buildings may be tested at building pressure where the code allows (PC 312.1). Commercial: riser notes, as-built sketches, the close-out package. At home: a plain account of what was done, why, and where your shutoffs are.
We don't "take a look." We read the system: pressure, slope, material, code section. Then the scope goes after the failure, not the symptom.
Yes. Commercial work is bid from a plan set sent by a GC or an owner: a quantified takeoff, a written proposal by position with alternates and unit prices, then the work under the GC schedule.
Yes. Bathroom and kitchen plumbing, water heaters, leaks, drains and sewer, and old pipes replaced, in houses, apartments, co-ops, condos and small buildings.
Yes, as projects: heads moved when an apartment's walls or ceilings change, heads and mains for fit-outs, new fire services. Which licensed trade does which part depends on the size of the system; the written scope names it before the price.
All five boroughs: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island.
PlumbHub runs the project and coordinates the filing and the inspection dates. The formal wording: PlumbHub LLC manages plumbing and fire protection projects. Licensed plumbing and sprinkler work in New York City is contracted, performed, filed and signed off by the New York City Licensed Master Plumber or Licensed Master Fire Suppression Piping Contractor engaged for each project, chosen to fit the job.
Commercial: send a link to the plan set through the bid form, or email it; a written proposal by position comes back. Residential: describe the symptom in the same form and send photos and the layout; the price is written before the work starts.
Building or fit-out: plan set, specs, bid date. Home: what is happening and a few photos. A written price comes back either way.