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Holliston's antique colonials and its famously iron-heavy well water both demand a plumber who has seen the pattern before. IS Plumbing works throughout town -- Holliston Center, East Holliston, Mudville and Braggville -- on water treatment, heater and boiler replacement, gas fitting, repipes and drain work, always under a Massachusetts Master Plumber license (#17137). Call +1 (774) 486-0909 for scheduled visits or genuine any-hour emergency help.
Washington Street through Holliston Center is lined with 18th- and 19th-century colonials and farmhouses -- homes with hand-dug cellars, generations of patched piping, and radiators older than anyone living there. Around Lake Winthrop and in the newer lanes off Route 16 you find mid-century and modern construction instead. The constants are the water, which arrives hard and iron-rich from town wells, and septic systems, since Holliston has no municipal sewer at all. We treat the water, repipe the antiques without wrecking the plaster, and size heating and hot-water equipment to what each house actually needs.
Every drop of Holliston's public water is pumped from town wells, and residents know the consequences: iron and manganese that stain fixtures and laundry, and hardness that scales water heaters years ahead of schedule. Whole-house iron filtration paired with a softener is the remedy we install most. And because the town has no sewer system, every home runs on septic -- Title 5 shapes every drain decision.
Holliston's Building Department at Town Hall on Washington Street handles plumbing and gas permitting, with the Board of Health involved whenever septic is touched. Repiping antique homes is the signature local job: replacing generations of mixed galvanized, copper and brass piping while respecting original plaster and wide-board floors takes planning, and we walk owners through the sequence before opening a single wall.
Based in Millbury, MA, we cover all of Holliston and the surrounding towns. Don't see your street? Call +1 (774) 486-0909 and ask.
Iron and manganese from the town's wells -- a long-running Holliston frustration. A whole-house oxidizing iron filter, sized to your flow rate, removes it before it reaches fixtures and laundry. Point-of-use filters alone won't keep tubs and toilets stain-free.
Yes, with two conditions: treat the water upstream so scale doesn't choke the heat exchanger, and install isolation valves for annual flushing. Done that way, tankless works fine even on well water this hard.
It shapes almost everything. New fixtures can't exceed what your Title 5 system is rated for, garbage disposals deserve second thoughts, and drain clearing must be leach-field safe. We factor the septic system into every recommendation.
Yes -- carefully. We plan runs through closets and chases, cut plaster only where necessary and stage the work so you keep water each night. Old radiators and original fixtures can usually be preserved if you want them.
The town's plumbing and gas inspectors, through the Building Department at Town Hall on Washington Street -- with the Board of Health weighing in whenever septic is involved. We file the permits and meet the inspectors ourselves.
From our shop in Millbury, MA we serve Holliston and the surrounding towns across the Worcester area, MetroWest and Greater Boston. Don't see your town listed? Call and ask.
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