Plumber in Cohoes, NY

Looking for a plumber Cohoes NY families can rely on? One call sends a licensed local plumber for leaks, slow drains, water heaters, sewer lines and urgent jobs. We reach Cohoes from Lansingburgh over the 112th Street Bridge, and the phone call comes with a likely cost, then a fixed price is written up on site.

Cohoes sits where the Mohawk River meets the Hudson, and its rows of 1800s mill worker houses keep plumbers busy. Our plumber in Troy NY crew serves homeowners here, along with landlords of two family flats and small shops on Remsen Street.

• Houses packed close together. Old mill city lots are narrow, so a sewer or water problem in one house can touch the neighbors.
• Shared walls and old laterals. Attached homes may have laterals that run close together or under shared yards.
• River basements. Homes near the Mohawk and the low streets take on water in spring melt. Sump pumps and good floor drains matter more here than up the hill.
• Mixed old repairs. A hundred years of fixes leave many basements with iron, steel and plastic pipe all joined together.

• Mill worker rows. Houses near Harmony Mills, once one of the biggest cotton mill complexes in the country, date to the 1800s and often have stone basements.
• Two family flats. Remsen Street and Mohawk Street have many two family homes, each with a shared drain stack. One clog can affect both floors.
• Capes and ranches up north. Later homes toward the north end have newer copper and PVC, but original water heaters and sump pits age too. Many of these homes are now 60 or 70 years old.
• Cast iron stacks. These rust and crack inside walls and under basement floors.
• Galvanized supply lines. Rust narrows them, so upstairs showers lose pressure.
• City water from the Mohawk. The City of Cohoes draws its water from the Mohawk River and also sells water to Green Island.

• Clogged drains: Old cast iron and clay lines clog with scale and roots. Our drain cleaning in Troy crews clear them on this side of the river too.
• Broken laterals: Cracked clay pipe under narrow yards calls for sewer line repair in Cohoes with a camera check first.
• Rusty water: Galvanized supply in mill era homes leads many owners to whole house repiping in Cohoes.
• Winter freezes: Pipes in old outside walls split on cold nights, so frozen pipe repair in Cohoes is a common January call.
• Old tanks: Many basements still hold aging heaters, and water heater replacement in Cohoes comes with a permit and haul away. Water heater replacement Cohoes owners book is often done in half a day.

We cover all of ZIP 12047, from the falls to Van Schaick Island.

• Cohoes Falls and the old mill district along the Mohawk River.
• Harmony Mills lofts, where old mill buildings are now apartments.
• Remsen Street downtown, home to the Cohoes Music Hall and rows of shops with flats above.
• Ontario Street (Route 470), which leads to the 112th Street Bridge and Lansingburgh.
• Van Schaick Island, with homes on low ground between river channels. A Van Schaick Island plumber call is often about a wet basement or a sump pump.
• Interstate 787, which runs along the city's east side and links Cohoes to Watervliet and Albany. Homes near the highway ramps include some of the city's older blocks.
• Next door: Our plumber in Waterford page covers the village to the north, our plumber in Green Island page covers the village to the south, and our plumber in Lansingburgh page covers Troy's north end across the bridge.

These are the jobs Cohoes callers ask about most often.

• A stone basement that takes on water every April near the river.
• A two family flat where the upstairs kitchen clog backs up into the downstairs sink.
• A cast iron stack leaking inside a wall in an 1800s row house.
• A Harmony Mills area home with weak upstairs pressure from rusted steel pipe.

• Permits: Plumbing permits go through the City of Cohoes building and code office. The plumber handles the paperwork.
• Separate shutoffs: Old two family homes may share one main valve. Adding a shutoff for each unit makes repairs easier for landlords and tenants.
• Spring tip: Test your sump pump in March before snowmelt, and clear the outside discharge of ice.
• Sewer district: Wastewater from Cohoes is treated through the Albany County Sewer District, while the house lateral is the owner's job.