Ruth Harlow picks up, at the shop or at her kitchen table.
Oil and gas boilers, hot water, drains and leaks in Quincy and the South Shore.
Is it an emergency? Water that will not stop, or no heat in freezing weather: call now. Smell gas: leave the house and call 911 first.
A banging boiler, a slow drain or a tune-up: ask for a visit.
$149 to come out, at any hour. It comes off the repair if you go ahead.
Prices are posted. A banging boiler is $279 and a cleared drain is $229. Every job has one figure, parts included.
35 minutes to a Quincy house. You get a text with the van number when it leaves the shop.
$149 is the first line on the invoice.
Every row below is the whole job, parts included. The figure is said out loud before anything is unscrewed, and nothing is added after it.
Drain cleared
From the P-trap out to the street, as far as our 75-foot cable reaches.
$229
Burst or leaking pipe repaired
A pipe we can reach without opening a wall. We shut off the water, cut out the bad section and sweat in a new coupling.
$389
Toilet repair
Fill valve, flapper or wax ring. The parts are in the price.
$159
Oil boiler, no heat
A new nozzle, filter, electrodes or cad cell comes off the van. A part we do not carry is quoted before we order it.
$329
Annual oil-boiler tune-up
About 90 minutes: clean, new nozzle and oil filter, test-fire, and a card taped to the jacket.
$245
40-gallon water heater, replaced
Tank type, gas or electric, with the old one hauled out through the bulkhead.
$1,895
One-zone mini-split, installed
One indoor head, one outdoor unit and the line set between them. The price is before any Mass Save rebate.
$4,950
Look for the teal van with our number on the door.
- At the door
- Booties go on before the cellar stairs, and a runner goes down to the boiler.
- On the counter
- The part we took out goes in a paper bag, so you can see what failed.
- In the glove box
- A paper map of the old water shut-offs in Quincy, because the city’s drawings and the cellars do not always agree.
Turn the main shut-off first, then decide how fast to call.
Every Quincy cellar has the same few things in it. This is where they sit. The lit line is the one that carries the heat upstairs.
- Meter 7, the water meter, on the left wall.
- Main shut-off 1, the valve on the pipe beside the meter, with a handwheel on top.
- Heater 3, the water heater, a tank with a flue going up through the ceiling.
- Boiler 2, the heating boiler, with its door and a service card taped to the jacket.
- Oil shut-off 4, the valve on the line between the oil tank and the boiler.
- Oil tank 5, a steel tank with a chamfered top.
- Floor drain 6, a round grate set in the cellar floor on the right.
- Supply 8, the one lit pipe, running from the boiler up to the radiators.
Call now
Water that will not stop, no heat in freezing weather, sewage coming up a drain, or a boiler leaking onto the floor.
If you smell gas, leave the house and call 911 before you call us.
Call today
A drip you can catch in a bucket, a drain that is slow but moving, hot water that runs out early, a radiator that stays cold.
Close the small valve under the fixture, then call. We fit you in the same day.
Book a visit
A boiler that bangs or knocks, a tune-up, a water heater past ten years old, a mini-split quote, a toilet that keeps running.
35 to 70 minutes
From the shop on Copeland Street to Quincy and to Hull, on a day with no snow. In a storm we text you the real time.
- 35 minutes from the shop
Quincy
Wollaston to Houghs Neck
- 40 minutes from the shop
Milton
Milton Hill
- 40 minutes from the shop
Braintree
South Braintree
- 45 minutes from the shop
Dorchester
Savin Hill to Lower Mills
- 45 minutes from the shop
Weymouth
The Landing and East Weymouth
- 55 minutes from the shop
Randolph
The whole town
- 55 minutes from the shop
Hingham
The Square and the Harbor
- 70 minutes from the shop
Hull
Nantasket
Ask ahead
Visits start between 7 am and 4 pm on weekdays and between 8 am and noon on Saturday. Ruth reads the requests at the shop and calls back by 9 the next morning with a window and the price of the job.
If water is running where it should not, do not use this form. Use the Call button on this page.
Got it. Ruth would call by 9.
Nothing was sent: this is a demo site. On a real Harlow & Pike site, Ruth would call back by 9 the next morning with a window and the price.