Calder Wick

Plumbing on Grafton Street, Worcester

Shop and after hours(508) 555-0198
Hands heating a copper elbow under a kitchen sink.

Call one number. June or Tom picks up.

Heaters, repipes, and fixtures are June Calder. Drains, slabs, and burst pipes are Tom Wick. The shop is 86 Grafton Street. There is no desk between the call and the person who does the work.

Say the street, the floor, and whether the water is still moving.

If a ceiling is opening, shut the main before you describe the stain. On most Worcester houses the main is inside, on the street wall, beside the meter. Turn it clockwise. If it will not move, leave it and call.

Where the main usually sits

Write the job down

Copper pipe racks and brass fittings on the bench at the Grafton Street shop.
The bench at 86 Grafton Street. Parts are picked up here. The work happens at the house.
A water heater with copper piping in a utility closet.
Heaters. Draft and pan drain, checked before June leaves.
An open cleanout and a coiled drain cable on a basement floor.
Drains. Tom cables from the cleanout.
New copper water lines run through opened wall studs.
Repipes. Copper, opened at the fittings.

From the book this month

StreetWhat was wrongWho
Piedmont StreetKitchen tee weeping into the cabinet under itTom
Vernon HillForty-gallon tank, flue that would not draftJune
Grafton HillGalvanized riser, orange at every valveJune
Main SouthSlab line under the laundryTom

The longer notes

June Calder in the shop, navy work shirt, copper pipe behind her.
June Calder. Heaters, repipes, fixtures. She started on Cambridge Street in 2004 and opened this shop with Tom in 2011.
Tom Wick in the shop, navy work shirt, pipe racks behind him.
Tom Wick. Drains, slabs, and the night line. He ran cable in Auburn before the shop. Burst pipes, any night, same number.

Worcester, Auburn, Shrewsbury, Grafton, Millbury, and Leicester. Hours and the Saturday cutoff.