A plumber in Scarsdale for the Tudor and Colonial Revival houses of the 1920s and 1930s and the shops of the Village Center: sewer laterals, leaks, bathrooms, gas lines, boilers and radiators. KBD holds Westchester County plumbing license #1744, the license the Village's plumbing permit application asks for, and the price is agreed before the work starts.
Scarsdale is a town and a village at once, so the plumbing permit, the water and the sewer main all answer to one Village Hall, at 1001 Post Road. The Village also runs the water system: it buys the water from New York City and the mains are its own. Its street plan was largely in place by 1940, according to the Village's 2012 cultural resource survey, which says the boom years of the 1920s left Scarsdale dominated by Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival houses. The Village's own history adds that many homes from that boom are still in use.
That makes the plumbing here a mix of original pipe and later alterations inside houses close to a hundred years old, done under rules that are the Village's own. This page sets out the rules a plumber in Scarsdale works under: who issues the plumbing permit and what the inspector checks, which part of the water service the Village looks after, who to call when sewage backs up, the winter rule that closes the streets to digging, and the gas main work that touched sewer laterals on three streets.
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The Scarsdale specifics worth knowing
Read off the official websites (the city or village, its water supplier, the County) in October 2026 and linked so you can check them. Offices and schedules change, so treat the link as the source rather than this page.
What a plumber in Scarsdale needs for a permit
Plumbing permits come from the Village Building Department at Village Hall, 1001 Post Road, 914-722-1140, which issues plumbing, electrical and mechanical heating permits as the State requires. Its plumbing permit application is addressed to the Plumbing Inspector, asks for the plumber's Westchester license number and goes in with a copy of the Westchester County license. The Village also wants insurance certificates naming the Village of Scarsdale as certificate holder before any permit is printed. KBD's Westchester County license is #1744.
What the inspector checks before a plumber in Scarsdale closes up
The Building Department's list of inspections schedules rough plumbing (waste, venting, water lines and a gas test if needed) with the framing inspection, which only happens once the plumbing, electrical and mechanical work is finished. Natural gas piping has to hold 4 psi for 15 minutes. A shower pan is filled with at least 2 inches of water, and its curb has to be at least 3 inches high. Final plumbing is booked with the final building inspection and includes a peppermint test on new houses and gut renovations. The stamped approved plans have to be on site the whole time.
Scarsdale gets all of its water from the New York City system, with a direct connection to the Catskill Aqueduct, and the Village owns and services 100 miles of water mains. Water coming up in the street is the Water Department's call first: 914-722-1138 during office hours, Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the Scarsdale Police Department at 914-722-1200 after hours. If the water runs discolored after a main break or the hydrant flushing, which is normally scheduled in the spring, the Village says to flush only the cold water, starting from the lowest fixtures in the house.
The Village's water code splits the line from the main into a water service connection and a water service pipe. For connections two inches or smaller, the code has the Water Department maintain, repair or renew the connection, with a few exceptions, at no cost to the property owner; the owner maintains and renews the service pipe that runs on to the meter. A repair to the owner's pipe is left exposed until the Plumbing Inspector or the Water Department has inspected and approved it under pressure. Which piece is leaking is a question for the Water Department, at 914-722-1138, before anything is dug.
Is the service line lead? The Village has an inventory
Under the federal Lead and Copper Rule Revisions the Village has prepared a lead service line inventory, and its 2025 water quality report says residents can view it at the Water Department, on the first floor of Village Hall, or at health.data.ny.gov. The same report points out that a lead service line can be owned by the water system, by the property owner, or by both. Questions about having your water tested for lead go to the Water Department at 914-722-1138.
Sewage backing up: the Village checks its main first
The Village owns and maintains the sanitary sewers, in three districts that drain to Westchester County's treatment plants, but every lateral connected to them is owned by the property it serves. If sewage backs up, the Village asks you to call Public Works at 914-722-1150 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, or the Scarsdale Police at 914-722-1200 at other times, so a crew can check the main in the street, and not to take the cleanout cover off inside the house until that main is running freely. If the main is clear, the blockage is in the house's own lateral or drains, which is where a plumber in Scarsdale comes in. Selling the house or a large renovation also brings in the Village's sewer lateral inspection program, which has its own rules.
No digging in the street from December 1 to April 1
Work in a Village road or right-of-way needs a street opening permit from the Engineering Department, and the Village's application says no work is permitted in the right-of-way between December 1 and April 1, the winter moratorium, and that applications are not accepted after November 15. Permits are reviewed within ten business days, and the excavator calls UDIG (formerly Dig Safe NY) for the utility mark-out. So a sewer lateral or water service replacement that has to reach the street is worth scoping with a plumber in Scarsdale before mid-November. If something cannot wait for spring, ask the Engineering Department at 914-722-1106.
Walworth, Fox Meadow and Ogden: the gas main and the laterals
Con Edison, which supplies gas in Scarsdale, began a gas transmission main along Walworth Avenue, Fox Meadow Road and Ogden Road in 2021, and the Village says sections of some private sewer laterals were replaced where they crossed the new main. In May 2026 Con Edison began offering video inspections of those laterals to the addresses listed in its notice, booked through scarsdalescheduling@coned.com. The notice expected them to be done by the end of June and says some can be accommodated on a limited basis outside that window. If a drain is backing up in a house on one of those streets, check the list before anything is dug. The Village's FAQ on the project sets out where things stand.
What a plumber in Scarsdale finds in the older houses
Long laterals under old lawns
Fox Meadow, one of the last large estates in the village, went up for sale in 1922 and was sold off in lots of a third of an acre to a full acre. On a lot that size the sewer lateral can be a long run of old pipe under lawn and mature trees before it reaches the Village main. A camera run down the line finds the stretch that has failed, so the repair can be scoped to that stretch instead of the whole run.
Bathrooms over plaster ceilings
An upstairs bathroom in a 1920s Tudor or Colonial Revival house can still drain through its original cast iron and run on old supply lines, over a plaster ceiling where a slow leak can show as a stain before anything looks wrong upstairs. With the walls open for a remodel, that old pipe can be replaced in the same job rather than tied into.
Radiators and the boiler behind them
Where a house of this age still has cast iron radiators, a boiler sits behind them, steam or hot water, and some of the valves and vents may be original. Gas-fired boiler repair, steam and hot-water heat and radiator valves are all work we do. A boiler replacement is a permit question in Scarsdale: the Building Department issues mechanical heating permits as well as plumbing permits.
Replacing an old water service
The Village's water code sets how the owner's service pipe goes in: at least four feet below finished grade, in a straight line from the main to the building, at right angles to the front property line, and in a trench of its own at least three feet from other buried lines, unless the Water Department approves a different layout or a shared trench. The materials it lists are copper, red brass and cement-lined cast iron. Older services can turn out to be lead or galvanized steel.
Village Center shops and restaurants
Local business leaders built the Village Center in the Tudor Revival style in the 1920s, so its shops and restaurants sit in buildings as old as the houses around them. A restaurant drain that keeps slowing down gets a camera inspection first, and hydro jetting where the pipe is sound enough for it.
What we do here
What a plumber in Scarsdale does here
All twenty-five services run in Scarsdale. Six that fit its houses and buildings:
Sewer line repair across Westchester — the problem found on camera first, roots cut out, broken lines repaired, and excavation scoped project by project.
Shower repair across Westchester: leaking shower valves, dripping tub faucets, low water pressure and full shower installations — handled by licensed plumbers.
Boiler repair across Westchester for gas, hot water and steam systems — no heat, no hot water, leaks, noise, pressure loss and boilers that lock out and will not restart.
Leak detection across Westchester — the stain on the ceiling, the meter that never stops, the damp patch in the basement. We find where the water is actually coming from, then repair it.
In Scarsdale the street is the Village's first call: the Water Department for water coming up in the road, Public Works or the police to check the sewer main when sewage backs up. Once the problem is on the owner's side or anywhere inside the house, it is a job for a plumber in Scarsdale: call (914) 233-3000. KBD's Westchester County license is #1744, and the price is agreed before the work starts.
Do I need a permit to redo a bathroom or kitchen in Scarsdale?
Yes. The Village's own FAQ says bathroom and kitchen alterations need a permit because Building Code compliance has to be checked, and that a permit is required for all work except ordinary maintenance. The plumbing goes on its own plumbing permit application, which has a line for the building permit number. If you are not sure whether a job counts as maintenance, ask the Building Department at 914-722-1140.
Which Scarsdale number do I call for water in the street, a sewage backup or a gas smell?
Water coming up in the street: the Village Water Department at 914-722-1138 during office hours, or the Scarsdale Police Department at 914-722-1200 after hours. Sewage backing up: Public Works at 914-722-1150 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, the police at other times, and leave the cleanout cover on until the main has been checked. Water threatening outlets or gas appliances in a storm: the Village sends you to the Fire Department, on 911 or 914-722-1217. A gas smell: the Village says leave the area immediately and call 911 or Con Edison at 1-800-752-6633. Water inside the house: close the main valve and call a plumber in Scarsdale; ours is (914) 233-3000.
Does the winter ban on street digging reach my Scarsdale front yard?
It can. The December 1 to April 1 moratorium covers the Village right-of-way, and the Village's own FAQ says that on most streets the right-of-way extends about 13 feet from the edge of the pavement, so the strip of lawn along the road can be part of it. That varies from street to street, and your property survey shows where it ends. Work behind that line is not under the moratorium, but a sewer lateral or water service replacement that has to cross it needs the street opening permit, and applications close on November 15.
Can I catch a leak in Scarsdale before the quarterly water bill?
The Village's Consumer Water Portal can help: it shows your water use and can send alerts for high or unusual use, so a leak can show up before the next quarterly bill. Some older meters do not work fully with it, and the Water Department, at 914-722-1138, can schedule a replacement. If the numbers say water is going somewhere and you cannot see where, finding it is leak detection, a job for a plumber in Scarsdale rather than the Village.
Advice from the job
What we found, and what we did about it
Guides written off real jobs in the Rivertowns, with photographs from the day — what went wrong, what it was telling us, and what you can check yourself before it costs anything.
