Owner-operated plumbing and heating service for Billerica homeowners. Two decades of work in this town — from older Mill District homes to newer Pinehurst builds — means we already know what your pipes are doing before we walk in.
Billerica plumbing has its own personality. The town's water system, fed by treatment plants tracing back to the original 1899 works near the Concord River, runs hard enough that mineral buildup is a real factor in fixtures, faucet aerators, and tankless water heaters across town. If you live in one of the older neighborhoods around the Billerica Mills Historic District, North Billerica, or near Nuttings Lake, you've probably also got cast-iron drains and copper supply lines that were state-of-the-art when they went in but are now well into their second or third decade of service.
We're based right here at 126 Treble Cove Rd in North Billerica, which means when you call us about a leak under the kitchen sink in Pinehurst or a no-heat call off Boston Road, we're not driving in from another county and adding trip time to the bill. Twenty years of jobs in this town has given us a working map of which streets still have the original 1960s galvanized supply lines, which streets the developers re-piped in the late '90s, and which boilers seem to fail in February without fail. That kind of pattern recognition is what saves you money on the diagnosis.
Opus Plumbing & Heating LLC is owner-operated by Rick. That means the person who quotes the job is also the person who shows up, does the work, and stands behind it. No call-center routing, no high-pressure sales script, no junior tech learning on your dime.
Billerica has a lot of older homes still running gas-fired or oil-fired boilers from the '80s and '90s. We diagnose no-heat calls, replace circulator pumps, repair zone valves, bleed air-locked baseboards, and when it's truly time, we install new high-efficiency replacements. If your boiler is over 20 years old and the repair quote is climbing past half the cost of a new unit, we'll tell you straight.
Tank, tankless, gas, electric, hybrid heat-pump — we install and repair them all. Hard water in Billerica eats sacrificial anode rods faster than the manufacturer's spec sheet suggests, so if your tank is past 10 years and you're seeing rust-tinted water at the hot tap, that's the warning sign. We carry the most common models for same-day swaps when yours is fully dead.
Slab leaks, behind-the-wall pinhole leaks, frozen-burst pipes after a January cold snap, and the slow drip under the basement laundry that's been quietly rusting your floor joists for years. We find the source first, then fix it, instead of cutting open three walls hoping we get lucky.
Recurring kitchen drain clogs in older Billerica homes are usually a buildup of grease + mineral scale on the inside walls of the cast-iron line, not a single clog you can plunge through. We use proper sewer machines and, when needed, can scope the line with a camera to confirm what's actually going on before we recommend bigger work.
If you're updating a kitchen or bathroom, we'll handle the rough-in changes, supply line updates (those old chrome supply tubes are leak risks), and the final hookup. We can source the fixtures or install what you've already bought.
When a pipe bursts or a sewer backs up, the first call is to shut off your main water valve. The second call is to us. We're a local Billerica number — (781) 879-2922 — and we prioritize emergencies for our existing customers and neighbors.
We work across every part of Billerica. Some of the areas we get called to most often:
"My boiler stopped firing this morning — the house is freezing."
We do this call most weeks of the heating season. Most of the time it's a control board, a stuck zone valve, or a circulator pump that finally seized. We carry common replacement parts in the truck. If the diagnosis points to replacement instead of repair, we'll show you the math both ways before you decide.
"There's a brown stain on the basement ceiling under the upstairs bathroom."
Almost always a slow leak from a wax ring on the toilet, a supply line behind the vanity, or a tub overflow gasket. We'll pull the right access panel, find the source, and fix it without tearing the ceiling open if we can avoid it.
"Our water has a metallic taste and the hot side is worse than the cold."
Classic sign of an aging water heater — the anode rod is spent and the tank is starting to rust from the inside. Sometimes it's a $40 anode replacement; sometimes it's time for a new tank. We'll tell you which.
"Every time it rains hard, the basement floods through the floor drain."
Could be a clogged main sewer line, a failing sump pump, or a backed-up storm system. We diagnose it on the first visit and recommend the right fix — sometimes that's a backwater valve, sometimes a pump replacement, sometimes a cleanout.
It depends entirely on the job. A basic service call — coming out, diagnosing, and resolving a single small issue like a running toilet or slow drain — typically falls in the $150-$300 range in this market. Larger jobs like a water heater replacement run $1,500-$3,500 depending on the unit. Boiler replacements start around $7,000-$12,000 installed for a residential gas boiler. We give a flat-rate quote before we start work, never an hourly surprise.
Existing customers and immediate neighbors get priority for after-hours emergencies. Call (781) 879-2922 — if it's outside normal hours and we can't pick up live, leave a voicemail with your address and the issue and we'll get back to you fast.
Yes. We carry a Massachusetts plumbing license and full liability insurance. We can provide proof of insurance on request before any job.
Three common causes: aging galvanized supply lines that have rusted closed inside, mineral buildup in your aerators and showerheads from Billerica's hard water, or a partially closed main shutoff valve at the meter. We diagnose which one it is before we quote a fix — the first one is a bigger job, the second two are usually quick.
Yes. We install both tank and tankless units. In Billerica's older homes with hard water, tankless units need annual descaling to hit their rated lifespan; that's part of the conversation we have before recommending one over a traditional tank.
If you're in Billerica, North Billerica, Pinehurst, Nuttings Lake, or anywhere in town and need a plumbing or heating issue handled by someone who actually knows the area, give us a call. We'll give you a real time window, an honest diagnosis, and a flat-rate quote before any work starts.
