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Commercial Plumbing

We serve Worcester businesses — restaurants, retail units, offices, multi-unit residential and light industrial — with plumbing, gas heating and drain work, including emergency calls out of hours. For a commercial customer the cost of a failure is usually lost trading time rather than the repair, and that shapes how we schedule.

$75 dispatch fee, credited to your bill when you book.

A plumber in a branded work shirt reaching up to fit a valve on overhead copper piping in a commercial basement, beside an exposed joist ceiling.
A commercial plumbing rough-in in an unfinished steel-stud wall against a painted concrete block wall. Two matching groups of black cast-iron waste pipe run down to the floor, joined by banded stainless no-hub couplings, with copper water lines crossing at waist height and copper stub-outs clipped to the block. Rusted steel fixture carriers with blue-painted cross plates are bolted to the concrete floor for wall-hung fixtures, and black test caps are still fitted to the waste stubs. Pencil measurements are written on the wall.
A commercial rough-in: cast-iron waste and copper supply on fixture carriers, in a steel-stud wall before it is closed up.
The inside of a large building under construction. Tall steel stud framing runs up a rough stone foundation wall that has been spray-foamed, and a black-painted structural deck crosses the top of the frame with a large spiral-seam duct running through it. A worker stands on the platform of an orange scissor lift, working at the top of the studs.
Commercial work is often a question of access before it is a question of pipe: this one is reached off a lift.
A stainless steel hand-wash sink with a chrome gooseneck faucet and a wall-mounted soap dispenser in a restaurant kitchen, with red anti-fatigue matting and quarry tile flooring alongside it.
A hand-wash sink plumbed and in service in a restaurant kitchen.
The underside of a three-compartment stainless steel sink, showing new copper waste arms dropping from each bowl into a horizontal run that turns down into a cast brass P-trap, with braided supply connectors and stop valves above.
New copper waste from a three-bay sink into a brass trap.
A worker kneeling in an opened cut in a concrete slab, assembling cast-iron underslab drainage, with lengths of soil pipe and shielded no-hub couplings laid out on the concrete around him and steel stud framing behind.
Underslab drainage going in on a commercial fit-out, photographed mid-job as a rough-in.

The clock is the difference

On a domestic call the customer wants it fixed properly. On a commercial call they want it fixed properly and they want the doors open. Those are not in conflict, but they change the order things happen in and they change what is worth doing at two in the morning versus first thing.

We will tell you which of those you are looking at rather than letting you find out when the shift starts.

Work we take

The common commercial jobs, and the ones we are set up for.

  • Grease line and kitchen drain clearing
  • Commercial gas heating and gas piping
  • Water heater and hot water plant replacement
  • Backflow, shut-offs and isolation work
  • Fixture and washroom refits
  • Scheduled and out-of-hours maintenance

Common questions

Do you work outside business hours?
Yes. There is always someone on call, 24 hours a day, and out-of-hours work is normal for our commercial customers.
What kinds of businesses do you work with?
Restaurants, retail units, offices, multi-unit residential and light industrial across Worcester County.
Do you handle commercial gas heating?
Commercial gas heating and gas piping are in scope. Oil heat and cooling are not.
Do you charge to come out and quote?
We charge a $75 dispatch fee to come out and diagnose the problem, and it is applied to your bill when you book the repair.

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