Photograph everything hidden
If it is going behind drywall, there is a picture of it in your file first.
One house at a time, on purpose
Coppercraft runs a single repipe crew. It caps what we can earn in a year and it is the reason our work looks the same in every house.
Anton Verhoeven apprenticed on new construction and hated it — hundreds of identical rough-ins in houses nobody had lived in yet. He moved to service work in Historic District in 2004 and found the opposite problem: every wall hid a different decade's mistake.
Coppercraft was built for those houses. One crew, one project at a time, and a rule that no concealed joint gets covered without a photograph. The photo record started as a way to settle arguments and became the thing clients talk about most.
Four hundred and eighty houses later, we still turn down work in October when the crew is booked, rather than putting a second crew of strangers into somebody's ninety-year-old walls.
How Coppercraft grew
2004
Anton leaves new construction for service work in Historic District.
2009
First full repipe; the photo-before-covering rule is written down.
2016
Poly-B replacement becomes half the business as 1990s pipe reaches failure age.
2026
480 houses, still one crew at a time.
480
Houses repiped
22 yrs
On older your city homes
1
Repipe crew at a time
4.9★
Across 212 reviews
What we hold ourselves to
One crew, one house
The same three people all week. It costs us volume and it is why the work is consistent.
Say when to wait
If the cast iron has ten years left, we say so, even standing in the basement with a quote in hand.
The crew in your house
Three people on the crew, all of whom have worked in houses older than their grandparents.
Anton Verhoeven
Founder & journeyperson
Twenty-six years in the trade, twenty-two of them in pre-war your city houses.
Rosa Illingworth
Journeyperson
Runs the survey visits. Can identify a pipe era from a photograph faster than anyone here.
Nils Petersen
Apprentice & patching
Fourth-year apprentice; also the reason the drywall patches look like nothing happened.
Photographed before it is covered
Every concealed joint is photographed and the set is emailed to you before the drywall goes on. If a joint we made ever leaks, we repair it and make good the finish — two years on a repipe, five when we do the stack as well.
Reviews
From owners of old houses
4.9 from 212 reviews · 480 houses repiped since 2004
“1912 house, Poly-B from a 1990s renovation on top of galvanized from who knows when. Eleven days, water on every single night, and the photo record of every joint is now in the file I will hand the next owner.”
“They talked me out of doing the stack at the same time — said the cast iron had another decade in it and showed me the camera footage. Cost them five thousand dollars of work.”
“The survey alone was worth it. Two other plumbers quoted from the basement ceiling; Coppercraft opened three inspection holes and found Kitec upstairs that nobody had mentioned.”
Find out what is actually behind your walls
A two-hour survey: every accessible run identified, material by material, with photographs and a written plan that tells you what to do now and what can wait five years.