Plumber in Winchester, MA
A Town Built Before Central Heating Was Normal
- Permit, inspection, and haul-away included.
- Booties on, floors covered, every visit.
- Emergency help, around the clock.
What We Get Called For in Winchester
Plumbing and Heating Services Across the Town
Hot water and steam, serviced, repaired and replaced. Boiler service and repair in a house built in 1905 means working around piping several different hands have altered, which is most of the job before anything gets fixed.
Boiler replacement gets sized on a heat loss calculation rather than matched to whatever is down there, which matters in houses insulated and re-windowed since the original unit went in.
Gas and electric, repair and replacement. Water heater installation in a Victorian cellar usually turns on access: narrow stairs, a tight turn at the bottom, and a tank that has to come down them in one piece.
Original supply piping and cast iron waste lines. Leak detection earns its keep where water shows up two rooms from where it started.
SUBMIT A FORM & REACH OUT
What a Hundred-Year-Old House Does to a Heating System
Why Winchester Calls Look Different
Steam that nobody else will touch.
Systems altered by six different plumbers.
Cellars in the river valley.
Neighborhoods We Cover
Winchester, 01890
- Winchester Center, Wedgemere, Symmes Corner, Winchester Highlands, the Flats, the West Side and the North End. The whole town, one ZIP code, from the streets above the Mystic Lakes to the blocks around Wedgemere Station. If you're inside the town line, you're inside our area.
Emergency Plumber in Winchester
24 Hour and Same Day Calls
Call now for water you can’t stop, sewage backing up, or no heat in freezing weather. In a Winchester house the no-heat call is the one that escalates fastest. These are big buildings that lose temperature quickly, with a lot of pipe running through outside walls. Shut your main valve first. 24/7 emergency plumbing treats a cold house as urgent whatever the hour, because the pipes become the second problem within a few of them.
It can wait if it’s a dripping faucet, one slow drain or a running toilet. Daytime is the cheaper version of the same repair and we’ll tell you which list you’re on.
Permits Are Pulled at Winchester Town Hall
Licensed Work, Inspected Locally
A water heater, a boiler or any gas work needs a permit pulled by a licensed plumber, and the town inspects afterwards.
We pull it, meet the inspector, and you end up holding the signed card. That waiting time is inside the quoted number rather than billed by the hour. It matters more here than in most towns, because a house in a National Register district comes with its own set of considerations and an unpermitted install is the kind of thing that surfaces at sale.
Nearby Towns
Where Else We Work
Directly north, where a plumber in Woburn replaces more water heaters than anywhere else we work, because the water up there takes years off a tank.
North-west, where a plumber in Burlington works postwar houses rather than Victorians, which is about as different as two towns this close get.
Winchester touches only two of the fourteen towns in our service areas, which makes it more of a destination than somewhere we pass through.
Questions From Winchester Homeowners
Local Answers
Will you work on a steam boiler?
My radiators are original. Do they have to go when the boiler does?
Do you charge more to come to Winchester?
Do I need a permit for a boiler in Winchester?
Our basement is damp. Is that a plumbing problem?
The Boiler Standard
Boiler Work Is the Job We Take First
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 …
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 …
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!
March 2026
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.”
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…”
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!!
October 2025
Ricky was Fantastic!!!! Fast and accurate service!!! Highly recommend!!!
March 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!
March 2026
April 2026
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 …
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 …
August 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…”
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.”
May 2026
Ricky was Fantastic!!!! Fast and accurate service!!! Highly recommend!!!
March 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!!
October 2025
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
You think something’s leaking
Your boiler needs looking at
It’s about to get cold
You think something’s leaking
Your boiler needs looking at
Your water heater is making you nervous
