Albany · Same-Day Service · Booking Now
One local team for the whole home across Albany — plumbing, heating, cooling, and drains. Licensed and insured, family-run since 2006, with same-day appointments Monday through Friday from Center Square to Pine Hills.
Your local team
When something breaks at home in Albany, you want one local crew that can handle it — not a call center two states away routing you to whoever’s closest. Empire State Plumbing is a family-run shop, licensed and insured in New York, and we cover the whole home for Albany: plumbing, heating, cooling, and drain & sewer, all from one phone call, with same-day appointments Monday through Friday.
Albany is a different kind of service city, and we work it like one. It’s a renter-majority state capital — roughly 38 percent owner-occupied and 62 percent renter, full of two- and three-family rowhouses and converted single-families — so we work for homeowners and landlords alike. And it has one of the oldest housing stocks in the country: about 43 to 46 percent of homes here predate 1940, and roughly half were built before 1950. In a pre-war Center Square rowhouse or a Pine Hills four-square, that means galvanized supply lines, old steam and hot-water boilers, radiator heat with no ductwork for AC, and cast-iron and clay drain lines aren’t edge cases — they’re the everyday reality, and they shape every trade we run here.
We diagnose honestly, quote up front, and do the job once. Pick the trade you need below and you’ll land on the full Albany page for that work, with real detail and a way to book.
We work the whole city — the dense historic core in Center Square, Mansion, Park South, Hudson/Park, and Washington Square; the old neighborhoods of Pine Hills, Arbor Hill, West Hill, Sheridan Hollow, the Pastures, and the South End; and the more suburban-feeling streets of Buckingham Lake, Melrose, The Dunes, Whitehall, Helderberg, Manning Boulevard, Beverwyck, and North Albany. The housing changes a lot block to block, so what we bring to a 1910 rowhouse on Lancaster Street isn't the same as a postwar house off Buckingham Lake — and we plan the work around that.
What we do here
Each trade below links to the full Albany page for that work. Pick what you need and we will take it from there.
Where we serve
We dispatch to Albany from our shop in Nassau on US-20. Real address, real phone, no fake storefront. Nassau is our licensed home base; Albany is part of our service area, dispatched same-day across the surrounding Capital Region.
Recent work · Albany neighbors
Representative work in the Albany neighborhoods we serve. Photos and exact addresses are added as our Albany clients approve them.
AlbanyCenter Square rowhouse, whole-home plumbing: replaced corroded original galvanized supply lines with a PEX repipe after the owner reported rusty water and weak pressure at every tap, routing new lines through the fewest possible openings to protect the pre-war plaster, then pressure-testing the full system.
AlbanyPine Hills single-family, heating: replaced an end-of-life hot-water boiler with a high-efficiency gas boiler on National Grid service, kept the existing radiators, and re-balanced the loop so the back bedrooms finally heated like the rest of the house.
AlbanyMansion District historic rowhouse, cooling: added comfort to a radiator-heated home with no ductwork using a multi-zone ductless mini-split — wall heads in the bedrooms and living room — so the owner got real AC without tearing into plaster for ducts.
AlbanySouth End two-family, drain & sewer: cleared a recurring main-line backup with a camera inspection and rooter service that found root intrusion in the old clay lateral, then installed a backwater valve to protect the basement from combined-sewer surcharge during heavy rain.
From a clogged drain to a no-heat call or a new install, book online or call. We answer Monday through Friday and dispatch same-day across Albany.
Real Albany neighbors
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Tell us what is going on and when works for you. A real ESP dispatcher confirms your same-day or next-available slot in Albany, usually within minutes.
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Good to know
Yes. We dispatch same-day across Albany Monday through Friday for plumbing, heating, cooling, and drain calls. Call early and a live tech gives you a real arrival window, not a vague four-hour guess. Our office hours are Mon-Fri, 7:30 AM to 6 PM.
All four — plumbing, heating, cooling, and drain & sewer — one local team for the whole home. That’s especially useful in Albany’s older homes, where a single job can touch the boiler, the radiators, the old galvanized supply, and the clay sewer lateral at once. Pick the trade you need from the grid above to see the full Albany page for that work.
No. Albany’s city water from the Alcove Reservoir is soft — about 3.1 grains per gallon — so there’s no hardness problem to soften. The water issue worth treating here is lead from old service lines and home plumbing, which we handle with lead or galvanized service-line replacement and an NSF/ANSI-53 lead-certified point-of-use filter, not a softener.
Yes, and it’s one of the most common cooling jobs we do in the historic core. About 43 to 46 percent of Albany homes predate 1940, and the radiator-heated rowhouses in Center Square, Mansion, and Pine Hills usually have no ductwork at all. A ductless mini-split puts real, quiet AC in the rooms you actually use without tearing open plaster for ducts.
Most of Albany is gas-heated through National Grid, so the common jobs are high-efficiency gas furnace and boiler replacement, plus oil-to-gas conversions wherever there’s a gas main on the street. On the rural fringe with no gas main, we install high-efficiency oil and propane furnaces and boilers instead. We tell you straight which path fits your address.
Yes on both. Plumbing permits in the City of Albany can only be pulled by a licensed Class A plumber through Buildings & Regulatory Compliance — homeowners can’t self-permit plumbing here. We’re licensed and insured in New York (City of Albany Lic. #PLBG21-147), we pull the permit, and we handle the inspection, so the work is on record when you go to sell.
From a clogged drain to a no-heat call or a new install, book online or call. We answer Monday through Friday and dispatch same-day across Albany.
Nearby coverage
We work the whole Capital Region, so the same crews that handle a job in Albany also cover the surrounding towns and nearby cities. If you’re right on the Albany line in Colonie, Menands, or Delmar, you’re still in our same-day range — call dispatch and we’ll confirm.
