Serving Massapequa Park · ZIP 11762
All Island Plumbing, Heating & Cooling is a plumbing company at 5788 Merrick Rd, Suite 203, Massapequa, NY 11758, serving the Village of Massapequa Park (ZIP 11762) in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County. Call (631) 644-2084. We answer calls 24/7 and are open Monday through Saturday (closed Sunday).
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Local to Massapequa Park
Massapequa Park borders East Massapequa, where our office is. Most of the village is about four minutes from us without traffic. The village has about 17,100 residents (2020 Census) and almost all of them live in single-family houses built in the same decade. When one block has a problem, the next block often has the same one.
What we fix
Plumbing only. Don't see your problem? Call and ask.
Burst and frozen pipes, active leaks, overflowing fixtures.
Split, burst or frozen pipes located and repaired.
Sinks, tubs, showers, laundry lines and the main.
Roots, breaks.
A valve on the house sewer line that closes if the street sewer backs up, so sewage can't come in through basement floor drains.
Tank-type heaters.
Under slabs, in walls, under sinks.
Appliance gas piping, oil-to-gas switches.
Fixtures, toilets, vanities, remodel rough-ins.
Whole-house and point-of-use.
We clear the line from the house to an existing septic tank. We don't install septic systems, and we don't do cesspool work.
Local know-how
Real numbers from public sources, and what they mean for your pipes.
The Census Bureau's latest five-year survey counts about 6,100 homes in the village. 70% were built in the 1950s, and 77% before 1960. The median year built is 1956. 95% are single-family detached and 98% are owner-occupied. That uniformity matters. Houses built by the same developers in the same years tend to have similar drain layouts, similar main-line runs to the street and similar original materials.
The village was incorporated in 1931. According to its Wikipedia history, several dozen Sears Roebuck kit houses were built in two areas of the village, including some of the largest models Sears offered. Between Sunrise Highway and Merrick Road, many streets still carry Irish names from the 1928 development by Brady, Cryan and Colleran. If you own one of the pre-war homes, expect a mix of original and updated piping. We plan repairs around what's actually in the walls.
The ACS shows 57% of village homes heat with utility gas and 35% with fuel oil. When an owner converts, the house needs properly sized gas piping to the new equipment and often to a new water heater, range or dryer. We install and repair gas lines. We don't sell or deliver oil.
Most of the village is served by the Massapequa Water District, and some areas by the South Farmingdale Water District, according to the Town of Oyster Bay's water district list. Check your water bill to see which one serves your street. The Massapequa Water District's 2023 report lists total hardness of only 3.0–6.6 mg/L, which is very soft. The district adjusts pH upward and adds polyphosphates at every well to reduce corrosion in household plumbing. Water this soft means less scale buildup. When a water heater fails here, the cause is more often age, the anode rod or a bad valve than hard-water scale.
The South Shore of Nassau is largely connected to the county sewer system. So a backup in Massapequa Park is usually a clog or break between your house and the street main. If sewage ever comes up through a basement floor drain because the street main is backed up, a backwater (sewer check) valve on the house line is designed to stop that. We install them.
Village landmarks: the Massapequa Park LIRR station on the Babylon Branch; McKenna Elementary School and the Nassau County Police Academy on the site of the old Fitzmaurice Flying Field (dedicated 1929).
Sources:U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census (PL 94-171) and ACS 2024 5-year (B25034, B25035, B25024, B25003, B25040) via Census Reporter; Wikipedia, "Massapequa Park, New York" (incorporation, Sears kit houses, Irish street names, Fitzmaurice Field); Wikipedia, "Oyster Bay, New York" (LIRR Babylon Branch stations); Town of Oyster Bay, "Water Districts & Companies"; Massapequa Water District 2023 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report; Wikipedia, "Nassau County Sewage District".
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