Recently a homeowner in Forest Hills, Queens had a water main emergency. Water was rushing out from their neighbors front yard and was beginning to enter into their basement. The natural reaction would be to insist on the neighbor hiring a water main contractor...
An experienced NYC sewer contractor knows that the key to success and customer satisfaction rests in the details. That can entail an inspection of a job site for accurate pricing and to make sure the job goes off without a hitch or any number of other duties as well....
The NYC DEP issues cease and desist orders for all sorts of environmental infractions. Basically a cease and desist order is an order to stop an activity and become code complaint. It can pertain to anything from a noise violation to water or air pollution. This...
A NYC DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) Three Day Notice is generally a notice to repair a defective (leaking) main water line for a house service. Depending on the severity of the leak the department may opt at their discretion to extend the period of the...
NYC sewer repair and water main repair work can now be attended to much sooner than ever before. The NYC DEP and NYC DOT recently implemented an electronic permit system for water main and sewer contractors. The new system cuts the time to secure a permit from what...
When the DEP shuts off a NYC water main service line it can cause a lot of distress any time of the year. But imagine if it's Christmas time and the line shut is a Queens water main servicing a Church. When a very bad leak exists even a Church during the Holidays can...
The NYC Department Of Buildings has an easy to use license verification tool to verify licensing and insurance for a NYC plumber, sewer contractor, or any trade requiring a license. By clicking this link: http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/LicenseTypeServlet?vlfirst=Y...
A strong part of the spirit of Joseph L. Balkan Inc. is that the more the customer knows about us, the better we'll look. Likewise the more educated and knowledgeable a client is about sewer repair and main water line work, the more likely that they will understand...
When a main water line leaks and water line repairs are needed an organized and prompt response must be provided. Sometimes this level of water main service means responding at all hours of the day. In this particular case the NYC DEP had issues a 'Three Day Notice'...
New York, USA (DECEMBER 28th 2010) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A snow storm blanketed NYC on the Christmas Holiday weekend with an average of over 15" of snow. When a homeowner has a water main break, and needs a water main repair who can they depend on? In this case a...
Water Leak Repair - Water Leak Completed within 24 hours - When a Queens homeowner received a DEP violation to perform a water leak repair, they had only three days to respond to the violation. Because this was just before a Holiday weekend they wanted to make a...
Broken Water Main- NYC DEP shuts broken water main until a water main repair can be made. When an emergency situation arises due to a water main break, the DEP issues notices and violations, sometimes it is forced to shut the broken water main service line before it...