Hoboken is roughly a square mile of brownstones, rowhouses and four- and five-story walkups, with converted industrial loft buildings and newer waterfront towers filling in the edges near the terminal. Almost none of that housing was designed around modern mechanical equipment, so boilers live in shallow cellars, condensers go on roofs, and almost nothing about an installation here is the standard detail. We come into Hoboken from Fair Lawn and Hillsdale and know how these buildings are put together.
Heights Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is a family-owned, licensed and insured plumbing and HVAC company serving the city of Hoboken in Hudson County, New Jersey. ZIP 07030. We offer same-day service, on-time arrival and upfront No Worries Pricing on every job, and we handle residential and commercial work.
What We See in Hoboken Homes & Buildings
- Brownstones and rowhouses generally have no ductwork at all, which makes ductless mini-splits and high-velocity small-duct systems the practical route to air conditioning.
- Most of the housing predates modern plumbing codes, so it is normal to open a cellar and find three or four generations of piping — cast iron, galvanized, copper and plastic — spliced together.
- The low-lying western and southwestern blocks have a long, well-documented history of storm flooding, so sump pumps, backup pumps and raised mechanical equipment are worth planning for.
- Cellar floors in a great many of these buildings sit at or below the level of the street sewer, so basement baths and laundry rooms drain through an ejector pump rather than by gravity.
Sections of Hoboken we serve include Uptown, Downtown, along with every other part of the city.
Popular Services in Hoboken, NJ
These are the services Hoboken customers call us for most, based on the local housing and building stock.
Plumbing Services in Hoboken
Our licensed plumbers handle water heaters, drain cleaning, sewer line repair, leak detection, gas lines, repiping and fixture work for Hoboken homes. See all plumbing services.
Air Conditioning Services in Hoboken
AC repair, maintenance, replacement and ductless mini splits for Hoboken homes, sized with real heat gain calculations by our mechanical engineer. See all air conditioning services.
Heating Services in Hoboken
Furnace, boiler and heat pump repair, maintenance and installation, including the steam and hot-water systems common in older Hudson County homes. See all heating services.
Commercial Plumbing & HVAC in Hoboken
Hoboken's commercial base is heavy on restaurants, bars, cafes and street-level retail, with offices, medical practices, a university campus and mixed-use buildings that put apartments directly above kitchens and shops. Our commercial division handles rooftop units, commercial boilers, walk-in coolers and commercial plumbing, with an electrical engineer on staff for the wiring. See all commercial services.
Hoboken Plumbing & HVAC FAQs
How do you air condition a Hoboken brownstone with no ductwork?
Ductless mini-splits handle most of these houses well, with a slim indoor head per room and a small outdoor unit on the roof or in the rear yard. Where the building allows it, a high-velocity system using flexible small-diameter tubing is the alternative that keeps the indoor units out of sight.
Our building floods in heavy rain. What can a plumber actually do about it?
Within our trade, quite a bit: sump pumps and battery backup pumps sized for the pit, sealed ejector systems, correctly routed discharge lines, and relocating or raising a boiler and water heater that keep getting wet. We are honest that none of it changes the street flooding itself.
We are gut renovating a Hoboken rowhouse. Can one contractor do the plumbing and the HVAC?
That is how we prefer to do it. We have a mechanical engineer and an electrical engineer on staff, so the heat loss and heat gain calculations, the pipe and duct routing and our own wiring for the equipment all get designed together instead of three trades working around each other after the fact.
Nearby Service Areas
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