Boiler and Radiator Service Areas Around Pittsburgh, PA

Why the coverage ring follows the old housing

Boilers are not spread evenly around Allegheny County. They sit in the houses built before forced air took over, which in Pittsburgh means the city itself and the streetcar suburbs and river boroughs that filled in between about 1890 and 1940. Close to half of the city's homes were built before 1940, and the boroughs on these pages are older still on average: brick rowhouses, foursquares, duplexes and big Victorians, many of them still running the steam or gravity hot-water system they were built with.

So the service area is drawn around that housing rather than around a radius. Dormont and Bellevue are about 10 to 15 minutes from downtown. Mt. Lebanon, Brentwood, Wilkinsburg, Swissvale and Munhall are about 15 to 20. The Liberty Tunnel, the Fort Pitt and the river bridges can stretch any of those at rush hour or in a snowstorm, so the dispatcher gives you a real estimate when you call rather than a promise printed on a website.

Every City of Pittsburgh neighborhood

Pittsburgh itself does not have separate neighborhood pages here, because the homepage and the service pages are written for the whole city. That includes the densest boiler stock in the region: Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Highland Park, Polish Hill, Friendship, Point Breeze, Greenfield, Brookline, Beechview and every neighborhood in between. If you are inside the city limits, start with boiler repair in Pittsburgh or go straight to radiator repair or 24/7 emergency boiler repair.

Boroughs and townships with their own pages

Each page below is written for that town's housing, its streets and the boiler problems that come up there, with the ZIP codes covered and the neighboring areas technicians reach on the same trip.

• Boiler repair in Mt. Lebanon, PABoiler replacement, radiator repair and ductless heat pumps in 1920s and 1930s homes.15 to 20 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15228, 15234, 15243
• Boiler repair in Wilkinsburg, PASteam and hot-water boiler repair for early-1900s houses and converted multi-unit buildings.15 to 20 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15221
• Boiler repair in Dormont, PARadiator and steam repairs in dense 1910s and 1920s brick homes and duplexes.10 to 15 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15216
• Boiler repair in Bellevue, PASteam and hot-water boiler repair in century-old homes, Avalon included.10 to 15 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15202
• Boiler repair in Munhall, PABoiler repair and replacement in steel-era houses, Homestead included.15 to 20 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15120
• Boiler repair in Swissvale, PAHot-water boiler, radiator and heat pump repair near Regent Square and Edgewood.15 to 20 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15218
• Boiler repair in Brentwood, PAHot-water boiler and radiator repair in 1920s brick homes off Brownsville Road.15 to 20 minutes from downtown · ZIP 15227

Not on the list?

Some smaller boroughs with the same era of housing are covered inside a neighboring page: Avalon with Bellevue, Homestead and West Homestead with Munhall, Edgewood and Regent Square with Swissvale. If your town is not named anywhere, call (321) 478-0693 and ask; the dispatcher will tell you straight away whether a technician can reach you. Homes on forced air in the newer suburbs are served by Pittsburgh Furnace Repair.