Plumber in Andover, MA

Three Villages, Three Different Centuries

Andover is the one town we cover that sits in Essex County rather than Middlesex, on the eastern edge of our radius. It’s also three towns in one as far as plumbing goes: Ballardvale grew around a mill from 1836, Shawsheen Village was built in five years flat by a woollen company in the 1920s, and West Andover is postwar suburban. Knowing which you’re in decides most of what we expect to find. Opus covers 01810 out of North Billerica, under a Massachusetts master plumber licence.

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Which Andover You Live In

Three Housing Eras Inside One Town Line

Ballardvale, from 1836

A mill village on the Shawsheen River that grew around the Ballard Vale Manufacturing Company. Workers’ housing plumbed long after it was built, then altered by every owner since, which is the usual finding when a wall comes open.

Shawsheen Village, 1919 to 1924

Over two hundred houses built inside five years by one company to one plan. Everything went in at once, which means everything ages at once, and the brick and wooden houses were built to different grades from the start.

West Andover and the postwar streets

Larger lots, later construction, and equipment now on its second or third generation rather than its fifth. A different job in the same town.

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What We Get Called For in Andover

Plumbing and Heating Services Across the Town

Water heaters

Gas and electric, repair and replacement. Water heater installation includes the permit, the inspection and hauling the old tank away inside the quoted number.

Boilers

Service, repair and replacement, hot water and steam. Boiler replacement gets sized on a heat loss calculation, which matters in a house that’s been insulated since its last one went in.

Leaks and original piping

Leak detection traces water back to the source before a wall or ceiling comes open, which is worth more in a hundred-year-old house than in a new one.

Drains

Drain cleaning runs a camera where a clog keeps coming back, and in mill-era waste piping that’s often what’s happening.

A Neighborhood Built All at Once Ages All at Once

Shawsheen Village, a Hundred Years On

Shawsheen is the most unusual housing on our map, and the reason is that a single company built the whole thing in about five years.

The American Woolen Company started in 1919 with a mill and a plan, and by 1924 the village held more than two hundred houses plus its own community buildings. Frye Village went in and Shawsheen came out. It has been on the National Register since 1979.

Everything in those houses started life the same year, which is the useful part. Original supply piping, original waste runs and original heating all reached their limits within a few years of each other, and the replacements after that tend to run in waves too. If your street has had a spate of heating work, that’s the calendar rather than coincidence.

The brick and wooden houses aren’t the same build. Brick went to management, wood to the rest, and they were specified differently. Two houses a street apart in the same village can want different answers, so we look rather than assume from the address.

Where We Cover

Andover, 01810, Essex County

Emergency Plumber in Andover

24 Hour and Same Day Calls

A person answers around the clock, not a machine.

Call now for water you can’t stop, sewage backing up, or no heat in freezing weather. Shut your main valve first, then call. 24/7 emergency plumbing runs at the same written price at two in the morning as at two in the afternoon.

Andover is the eastern edge of our radius, so you’ll get a realistic window on the phone rather than a flattering one. That’s more use at midnight than a number designed to win the call.

Nearby Towns

Where Else We Work

Tewksbury

West, and one of only two towns we cover that border Andover, where a plumber in Tewksbury works the newest housing on our map rather than the oldest.

Wilmington

South-west, the other one, where a plumber in Wilmington deals with wet ground and a town mostly on septic.

Chelmsford

Further west and not a neighbour, but the next town of any size we cover, where a plumber in Chelmsford works two separate water districts.

Andover is the only Essex County town in our service areas; the other thirteen are Middlesex.

Questions From Andover Homeowners

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You're based in Middlesex County. Do you actually cover Andover?

Yes. Andover sits inside our radius even though it’s over the county line, and it’s the one Essex County town we work. Crossing a county boundary changes the paperwork we file with your town, not whether we come or what it costs.

Our house is in Shawsheen Village. Is the plumbing all original?

Some of it usually is, and that’s worth knowing. The village went up between 1919 and 1924, so anything untouched since is a hundred years old. The brick and wooden houses were built to different specifications too, so what’s true of a neighbour’s isn’t automatically true of yours.

Why has half our street had heating work this year?

Because the houses were built together and the equipment ages together. In a neighborhood constructed inside five years, replacements arrive in waves rather than spread out. It’s the building calendar catching up rather than anything to do with your street specifically.

Do you charge more to come to Andover?

No. The flat written price is the same in every town we cover, and the driving is inside it rather than added as a trip charge, county line or not.

Do I need a permit for a water heater in Andover?

Yes, and only a licensed plumber can pull it. Andover inspects afterwards the same as any Massachusetts town and you should end up holding a signed card. Ours is priced into the quote rather than billed separately.

The No-Surprise Number

One Flat Price, in Writing, Before Work Starts

Most quotes start an hourly clock you can’t see, then add trip charges, permit fees and marked-up parts you only spot once the invoice is in your hand. We hand you one flat number in writing before a tool comes out of the truck, with the permit, the inspection and hauling the old unit away already inside it. Crossing a county line doesn’t change that figure either, which is worth saying in the one town where we do it. If we open a wall in a hundred-year-old house and find something nobody could have known was there, we stop, give you a new number, and nothing happens until you say go. The number you agreed to is the number you pay.

Our Customer Feedback

Rick Green did an awesome job with all of my plumbing needs during a total renovation. I needed everything in my home connected/redone in the kitchen and bathroom. He took care of the transition from bathtub to standing shower-it’s all …

Janet Vasquez

July 2026

Ricky and the team at OPUS are fantastic! Super knowledgeable, punctual and all around great group of guys. Really grateful to have found them, I sleep easier now knowing I have a great plumbing team (you genuinely never know when you may …

Christopher

August 2026

I highly recommend (Rick) he was on time fixed everything, was polite and answered all our questions and cleaned up everything when he was done! Thank you so much!

Robert Welch

March 2026

Great service! Very responsive. Always on time and gets the job done quickly. Already have them booked for my next project.

carolina

April 2026

“Been using Opus for years on a variety of projects. Reliable, transparent and priced well. Rick does great quality work. Highly recommend for homeowners, investors and builders.”

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May 2026

“Had a leak in my water heater tank. Ricky and team arrived very quickly, same day to assess the situation. I asked if we could avoid swapping out the water heater and just buy the parts needed to fix (I was being cheap!) – he did he absolute best (a few hours) trying to extract the old part and replace it with a new one. He tried far longer than any other plumber would have tried. After several hours of attempts we all came to the conclusion that it simply wasn’t coming out. I ran to Home Depot (it was Saturday) and grabbed a water heater. Ricky and team had it installed within 15 minutes and my new unit is working perfectly.

Very impressed with Ricky’s transparency and honesty. Most others wouldnt have given me the time of day…”

Dan Doherty

April 2026

I contacted Opus upon being referred to them by someone they also did great work for. They showed up on time and finished a heating system job for me with the utmost professionalism and quality. I would definitely recommend them to others!!

Brian Sullivan

October 2025

Ricky was Fantastic!!!! Fast and accurate service!!! Highly recommend!!!

Sandra Best

March 2026

The Towns We Cover Across Middlesex County

Opus runs out of North Billerica and covers roughly a 20-mile radius, from the older neighborhoods of Woburn and Winchester to the affluent, boiler-heavy homes in Concord, Carlisle, and Lincoln. If your home is within about 20 miles, we most likely cover you.

Tips for Keeping Your Water Hot and Your Basement Dry

It’s about to get cold

October 22, 2026

Which pipes freeze first, what to do in October so they don’t, and what to do at two in the morning if one already has. Frozen and burst pipes covers all of it.

You think something’s leaking

October 22, 2026

Stains, a meter still ticking with every tap shut off, a warm patch of floor. Leak detection finds where the water is actually coming from before anybody opens a wall.

Your boiler needs looking at

October 22, 2026

How often hot water and steam systems want servicing, what the annual visit includes, and which noises are worth calling about. Boiler service and repair answers all three.

It’s about to get cold

October 22, 2026

Which pipes freeze first, what to do in October so they don’t, and what to do at two in the morning if one already has. Frozen and burst pipes covers all of it.

You think something’s leaking

October 22, 2026

Stains, a meter still ticking with every tap shut off, a warm patch of floor. Leak detection finds where the water is actually coming from before anybody opens a wall.

Your boiler needs looking at

October 22, 2026

How often hot water and steam systems want servicing, what the annual visit includes, and which noises are worth calling about. Boiler service and repair answers all three.

Your water heater is making you nervous

October 22, 2026

Age, rusty water, a puddle, or hot water that runs out sooner than it used to. Four signs that point the same way, and water heater installation is what comes next.

Tankless Error Codes

October 15, 2026

Learn what common error codes mean and when descaling can help.

Tank vs. Tankless

October 15, 2026

Compare water heaters to find the right fit for your home and budget.