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A lead shower pan formed by hand, one example of the Westchester plumbing work on this page
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Westchester plumbing work, photographed

Every photograph below is of Westchester plumbing work we actually did — taken on the day, on the job, on a phone. No stock photographs, no catalog shots, and nothing borrowed. If you want to know what you are getting before you call, this is it.

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Bathrooms

Bathrooms: 4 photographs of Westchester plumbing work

A lead shower pan formed by hand on site, the waterproof layer under the tile that stops a shower leak reaching the ceiling
A lead shower pan, formed by hand Sheet lead folded, soldered and dressed into the opening on site, with the drain flange set in. Almost nobody does these anymore — a formed pan has no seams to fail where a prefab base relies on a bead of sealant.
A shower base waterproofed and taped out to the walls before tiling, with the drain in place
The same shower, waterproofed The base sealed and carried up onto the walls before a single tile goes on. This is the layer that decides whether the ceiling below is fine in ten years.
A new bath set into its framing against an exposed brick wall during a bathroom rebuild
A bath set into its framing Leveled, supported and plumbed against an exposed brick wall mid-rebuild, with the drain run in before the front panel goes back.
A finished wall-hung toilet with an in-wall tank and flush plate; when a toilet like this keeps running, the parts are behind the plate
Wall-hung toilet, finished In-wall tank, flush plate set flat, nothing standing on the floor to clean around.
Piping

Piping: 3 photographs of Westchester plumbing work

Copper hot and cold water pipes running inside a stud bay, the kind of run that gives you frozen pipes when the wall behind it is unheated
Shower valve and risers in a stud bay Hot and cold run up to a thermostatic valve with hammer arrestors above, all secured properly before the wall closes.
Pressure reducing valves and new copper risers beside an old cast iron stack, the supply side behind a house with no hot water
New valves beside an old cast iron stack Pressure reducing valves, backflow prevention and new copper, tied into a cast iron soil stack that is well over a century old and still working.
Copper piping with isolation valves around a water meter, near where the water shut off valve sits in a basement
Copper manifold at the meter Isolation valves on every leg, so the next person who needs to shut one branch off does not have to drain the house.
Drains & sewers

Drains & sewers: 2 photographs of Westchester plumbing work

Open trench across a front lawn for a sewer line replacement, with apartment buildings and the street behind
A sewer line under a front lawn Open cut down to the line, shored and bedded. The lawn comes up because there is no other honest way to reach it.
Not a water main break: an owner-side trench from one of our sewer line jobs, with a new line bedded along the bottom and tree roots through the wall
Roots through the joint What the camera found first, then what the trench confirmed: roots into a clay joint, which is the classic failure in this housing stock.
Commercial

Commercial: 4 photographs of Westchester plumbing work

A corroded commercial kitchen floor hatch with the tile chipped out around its frame
A corroded kitchen floor hatch Lifting points rusted through to open holes, tile broken up in a band around the frame. By the time the tile goes, the lid is not the problem.
A new commercial kitchen floor hatch frame set into the floor, with the drain line below remade
The new frame, set to the floor Bedded to finished level and following the pitch of the floor, with the drain line below remade while the opening was still accessible.
A new two-leaf commercial kitchen floor hatch with both leaves open and the remade drain line below
Both leaves open Two leaves so one half can be lifted at a time in a narrow aisle, and the shielded coupling on the line underneath.
The finished commercial kitchen floor hatch, diamond plate and flush with the tile
Closed, and flush Diamond plate, sitting level with the tile, lifting points recessed. A dull photograph, which is exactly the point.
Heating

Heating: 2 photographs of Westchester plumbing work

A convector heater in an open wall recess in an older Westchester house with the heat not working
A convector in an open recess Opened up around a convector in an older house. In buildings this age the heating and the walls around it are usually the same job.
A cast iron radiator with the plaster cut back around its pipe, in a house where the boiler was not working properly
Cast iron radiator, wall cut back Plaster cut back around the supply pipe to get at the connection without breaking the radiator or the floor.

Why we show the Westchester plumbing work instead of stock photos

Every plumbing website in the county uses the same bought photographs of the same models holding the same wrench. We would rather show you a trench, a corroded hatch and a lead pan nobody forms by hand anymore, because that is what the work actually looks like — and because you can tell the difference.

No addresses, no customers and no house numbers appear in any of these. The Westchester plumbing work is the point, and it is the only thing we are claiming.

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