7.2 miles from our yard · Yardley, PA
24/7 Emergency Service in Yardley
When the Delaware comes up, sump pumps run continuously and the failures cluster: a pump that stops, a power outage that stops all of them, water reaching the heater. A battery backup and a known shut-off location are the two preparations that pay for themselves. Sewage backing up from the street is the other river-side emergency. If the water is already above the basement floor, the sump circuit and the panel are in it, and that is a call to make from the top of the stairs rather than the bottom.
The houses in Yardley
Yardley sits on the Delaware and the canal, with a borough of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century houses along the river and Lower Makefield Township spreading west of it with colonials and ranchers from the 1960s through the 1990s. The river is the fact that shapes everything: the borough and the low-lying streets near it flooded badly more than once in the mid-2000s, and a great deal of basement plumbing, heating and electrical in those blocks has been replaced, raised or relocated since. Elsewhere in the township the stock is ordinary suburban of its decade, with the systems to match.
Getting there
7.2 miles from 5915 Bristol Emilie Rd, Levittown — straight-line, not a drive time, which depends on the day.
Also covered from here
Lower Makefield · Morrisville · Washington Crossing
When we answer
- Monday – Friday
- 8:00am – 5:00pm
- Saturday
- 8:00am – 1:00pm
- Emergencies
- 24 hours
Emergency in Yardley: what we handle
- Burst Pipes
- Flooding & Water Damage
- No Heat
- No Air Conditioning
- Electrical Hazards
- Sewage Backups
- Gas Leaks (Coordination)
- Water Heater Failure
What a call includes, the problems people describe, how a visit goes and the questions people ask are the same in every town, so they live on one page. All about emergency.
An emergency in Yardley? Call (215) 788-0803 — we answer 24 hours.