Plumbing & heating in East Greenwich

East Greenwich divides at Route 4. East of it, the streets climbing from Main Street up away from the harbour carry genuinely old housing, some of it eighteenth and nineteenth century, and a heating system in one of those has usually been added to three or four times by different hands.

That is careful work rather than fast work. Old plaster, narrow chases and floor structures nobody wants to cut mean the route a pipe takes matters as much as the fitting on the end of it. We would far rather find out what is behind a wall through a small hole than a large one, and in this housing that is the difference between a tidy job and a plastering bill.

West of the highway the building is newer and the calls are ordinary — replacement, servicing and remodel work, in basements you can stand up in.