Licensed and insured plumbers based in Brooklyn Heights, serving the whole borough around the clock. Free written estimates - call (929) 441-6040 any hour.
One team for every pipe in the house, from a dripping vanity in Cobble Hill to a collapsed sewer lateral in Canarsie.
A tub that empties in slow motion usually means a cast iron line closing up from the inside, not a job for another bottle of chemicals. We clear the actual blockage and show you the pipe on camera.
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Cold showers in a walkup on a February morning get old before the coffee's done. We diagnose failed elements, bad thermocouples, and leaking valves, and we'll say plainly when a repair still makes sense.
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When a tank starts weeping rust at the seams, replacement beats another patch. We size, set, vent, and file the city paperwork for tank and tankless units across Brooklyn.
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Most Brooklyn laterals are clay or cast iron laid over a century ago, and the street trees have had all that time to find the joints. We camera the line, show you the footage, and fix it from foundation wall to city main.
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That brown ring on the parlor ceiling started somewhere, and guessing costs you plaster. Acoustic gear and thermal imaging find the leak without opening every wall in the house.
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A running toilet quietly doubles the water bill, and a corroded shower valve in a pre-war bathroom tests everyone's patience by Tuesday. We handle repairs, fixture swaps, and full renovation rough-ins.
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Grease is the number one killer of Brooklyn kitchen drains, and disposals jam on the worst possible night. We service everything under the counter, from the trap to the dishwasher hookup.
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Burst pipes don't check the clock, and neither do we. Calls to (929) 441-6040 get answered by a person around the clock, every day of the year.
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Gas piping isn't a handyman job anywhere, least of all in New York City. We install, repair, and pressure-test gas lines with the permits and inspections the DOB requires.
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The service line from the city main to your house belongs to you, and in older Brooklyn it's often galvanized or even lead. When it fails, we locate the break and repair or replace the line.
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Call (929) 441-6040 or send the form. A real person gets back to you within 24 hours, usually a lot faster.
A licensed plumber looks at the problem in person and hands you a written price before any work starts. Not a range that grows once the wall is open. The price.
We do the job, test it, and leave your home the way we found it. Drop cloths and shoe covers aren't optional on our crews.
Every job runs under a NYC licensed master plumber, which the city requires for permitted work.
Liability and workers' comp protect your property and everyone working on it, with COIs for co-ops and condos on request.
A burst pipe at 3am gets answered exactly like a call at noon.
You'll know the price in writing before we touch a wrench.
Brooklyn Plumbers works out of 300 Cadman Plz W in Brooklyn Heights, steps from Borough Hall, and covers the whole borough. You'll find our trucks in Park Slope, Bay Ridge, Williamsburg, Flatbush, Sunset Park, Sheepshead Bay, Greenpoint, and Canarsie, plus DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, Midwood, Ditmas Park, Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, Marine Park, Mill Basin, and every block between. If you're in Brooklyn, you're in our service area.
300 Cadman Plz W, Brooklyn Heights, NY 11201
An October evening on Garfield Place in Park Slope, and the brown ring on the parlor ceiling has grown again. It showed up three weeks ago the size of a coaster. Now it's a dinner plate with a darker center, the plaster is starting to belly, and somewhere above it - behind tile, inside a wet wall packed with a century of pipe - something is leaking one slow drop at a time. The homeowner has two quotes already: one guy wants to open the whole ceiling, the other shrugged and said "could be anything."
It's not anything. It's something, in one specific spot, and finding it before the demolition starts is the whole job.
Brooklyn Plumbers works out of Cadman Plaza West in Brooklyn Heights, and most of what we do comes down to one collision: some of the oldest housing in America meeting modern daily demand. Brooklyn Heights itself became New York's very first historic district back in 1965, and the blocks around our shop - the Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Fort Greene - run deep with 1800s brownstones whose plumbing has been patched, extended, and argued with by five generations of plumbers. Cast iron waste stacks hung before the Brooklyn Bridge had traffic. Galvanized supply lines rusting shut from the inside. Lead bends under pre-war toilets. House traps buried at the front wall that most owners learn about the day we point a camera at one.
Here's the twist most people get backwards: New York's water is soft. It runs down from upstate reservoirs carrying almost no mineral load, so the limescale that strangles plumbing in hard-water towns barely registers here. Age is the enemy in Brooklyn, not scale. Galvanized closes itself off rust layer by rust layer. Cast iron rots along the bottom of horizontal runs where water sits. Clay sewer joints let roots in. Every one of those failures has a right fix, and none of them is guesswork.
That's the borough we plumb daily, from Leak Detection calls like Garfield Place to Drain Cleaning visits booked a week out.
Some jobs punish shortcuts, and three of them punish hardest. Your sewer lateral runs from the foundation wall, under the yard and sidewalk, out to the city main - and every foot of it is your responsibility, not the DEP's. On the older blocks it's vitrified clay in short sections with a joint every few feet, which is a standing invitation to the honey locusts and London planes the borough loves. Down toward Canarsie and Sheepshead Bay, filled marshland settles and puts bellies in lines where waste pools on a schedule. Our Sewer Line Repair work starts with a camera every single time, and you watch the monitor with us, because nobody should open a Brooklyn sidewalk on a hunch.
Gas is its own world. National Grid delivers it, but only a licensed master plumber can legally touch the piping inside your building, and under Local Law 152 most Brooklyn buildings now need their gas systems inspected on a city schedule. Our Gas Line Service covers installs, repairs, pressure tests, DOB filings, and those LL152 inspections. If you ever smell rotten eggs, leave the building first and make the call from the sidewalk.
Water heaters look simple until you're wrestling a sediment-loaded tank up a cellar hatch in Carroll Gardens. In NYC even a straight swap is supposed to be filed by a licensed plumber, and the venting question - especially into the old masonry chimneys of pre-war housing - is exactly where corner-cutters create carbon monoxide risks. Water Heater Installation and Water Heater Repair are daily work here, done to code, sized for how your household actually uses hot water. And in the co-op and condo buildings around Downtown, the Heights, and DUMBO, we handle the other half of the job too: the COIs, the alteration paperwork, and the building rules, filed before the crew arrives instead of argued about in the lobby.
The honest answer: it depends, and anyone quoting a firm number before seeing the job is guessing with your money. Here's what actually moves a Brooklyn plumbing quote.
Access and severity lead. Swapping a trap under an open cellar sink is quick work. The same leak buried behind original subway tile on the third floor of a limestone is a different job, because reaching the pipe takes longer than fixing it. The age of the pipe matters just as much - old galvanized can crumble the moment a wrench lands on it, so a "small" repair can grow the second the pipe is touched, and we'd rather warn you up front than surprise you after.
Then timing and paperwork. A 3am emergency costs more than a scheduled Tuesday visit, and we'll tell you the emergency rate on the phone before the truck rolls. Jobs needing DOB filings, or a DOT permit to open sidewalk over a sewer or water service, carry city fees we pass through at cost. Co-op and condo alteration requirements add steps, not mysteries.
What we can promise: the estimate is free, it's in writing, and nothing happens until you approve it.
Here's how the full lineup plays out in real Brooklyn homes. Drain Cleaning is the everyday call, and in pre-war houses half the "mystery clogs" trace to the house trap nobody knew existed. Sewer Line Repair picks up where the camera finds real damage, and for basements that flood every time a storm parks over the borough - Brooklyn runs on combined sewers, and heavy rain pushes the system backward up the lowest drain - we install backwater valves built for exactly that block.
Water Heater Repair keeps aging tanks alive; Water Heater Installation replaces them when the math stops working. Leak Detection saves brownstone owners from tearing out plaster on a guess. Bathroom Plumbing runs from a flapper swap to full gut-renovation rough-ins, lead bends handled properly. Kitchen Plumbing is grease lines, disposals, and dishwasher hookups. Water Line Repair handles the buried service from the main, including replacing the lead lines still feeding some older homes - the DEP keeps a lookup by address, and we'll check yours. Gas Line Service covers ranges, dryers, and heaters with proper testing. And Emergency Plumbing threads through all of it: the phone gets answered at any hour, period.
Check the license first. NYC requires a licensed master plumber for permitted work, and the DOB website verifies a license in about a minute. Ask for certificates of insurance too - liability and workers' comp both - because an uninsured worker hurt in your stairwell becomes your problem, and in a co-op it becomes the whole building's problem.
Get the scope in writing: materials, what's included, what triggers a change.
And be careful with the lowest bid. In our experience it means one of two things - the price grows through change orders once the walls are open, or the permit never gets pulled and you find out at closing. If anyone suggests filing a "homeowner permit" for gas or sewer work so they can skip the paperwork, end the conversation there.
When you're ready for a straight answer and a written price, call Brooklyn Plumbers at (929) 441-6040.
For emergencies we dispatch immediately, and from Cadman Plaza most Brooklyn addresses see a truck fast, traffic willing. Standard appointments are usually same-day or next-day.
No. A plumber looks at the actual job in person and hands you a written price for free. You decide from there.
It depends on access, pipe age, timing, and whether permits are involved, which is why we don't quote blind over the phone. The on-site estimate is free, written, and approved by you before any work starts.
Yes. Our work runs under a NYC licensed master plumber, and we carry liability and workers' comp. COIs for co-op and condo buildings are available on request.
We do. The phone at (929) 441-6040 is answered by a person 24/7, including holidays, and emergency crews run every day of the year.
Constantly - it's half our home turf around the Heights and Downtown. We provide the COIs buildings require and work within alteration agreements without drama.
Every day. It's most of Brooklyn's housing stock. Old pipe needs careful hands because it can crumble under a wrench, and we'll give you an honest read on repairing versus repiping.
Both. Water heaters, fixtures, disposals, gas lines, backwater valves, full repipes - if new plumbing is going in, we install it to code and file what needs filing.
Yes, our workmanship guarantee is in writing. If something we repaired fails, we come back and make it right.
Tell us what's going on and we'll take it from there. Fill out the form or call (929) 441-6040.
One call handles it, from the first look to the final test.
(929) 441-6040