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Stop scrolling. Save 215-342-7200. We drive to 19038 out of Northeast Philly, 35 years and counting.

Save the number before you need it: 215-342-7200, Guaranteed Plumbing & Heating. We are a Master-Plumber-licensed shop out of 900 Cottman Avenue in Northeast Philly, and Glenside 19038 has been on our regular dispatch map since 1990. About 20 minutes door-to-door if PA 309 is moving.

A real human picks up the phone, the estimate is free once a tech reaches your house, the price gets nailed down before any pipe gets cut, and the work is the same whether your home is one of the Tudor Revivals up by Keswick Village or a mid-century rancher down near Penbryn Park. Frozen pipe, sluggish kitchen drain, boiler that quit, sump pump that gave up during a thunderstorm.

Call. We will be there.

Business name

Guaranteed Plumbing & Heating

Phone

215-342-7200

Address

900 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19111

We do not have a storefront in Glenside, PA. Service is dispatched from our Northeast Philadelphia shop.

Hours

Office: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

After-hours: 24/7 answering service with same-day and after-hours dispatch based on crew availability.

Glenside ZIP codes we cover

19038 (primary). Adjacent areas in 19046, 19027, and 19075 also dispatched regularly.

Typical drive time

Glenside sits about 9 to 10 miles northwest of our Cottman Avenue office. Typical drive is 20 to 25 minutes, taking PA 309 north or Easton Road (PA 152) depending on traffic.

About Glenside and how we serve it

Glenside is a quirky little census-designated place that does not fit neatly into one township. Per Wikipedia and confirmed by Cheltenham Township records, Glenside straddles the border of Cheltenham Township and Abington Township in Montgomery County, with a 1.3 square mile footprint and about 7,700 residents as of the 2020 census. That dual-township arrangement matters for plumbing work because the permitting jurisdiction depends on which side of the line your house sits on, and the side of the line is not always obvious from a street address.

The other thing that makes Glenside different from most of its suburban neighbors is the age and architectural variety of the housing stock. Homes here date as far back as the 1730s. The median home age is around 1940, which means most of what we work on is pre-war or just-post-war. The architectural mix is unusual for a Philly suburb: Tudor Revivals (some designed by Horace Trumbauer, the same architect who designed the Free Library of Philadelphia and parts of Penn), Colonial Revivals, stone-front singles, semi-attached homes, and bungalows. Mid-century split-levels and ranchers fill in around the older stock, and a handful of late-twentieth-century condo developments round it out.

The pockets we work in most often:

  • Keswick Village

    Around the Keswick Theatre and the Glenside SEPTA station. Older commercial-residential mix, Tudor Revivals on the side streets, often with mature trees and old clay sewer laterals.

  • Near Arcadia University

    Larger pre-war single-family homes, including some original Trumbauer-era stock, with the plumbing systems to match.

  • Penbryn Park area

    Mid-century split-levels and ranchers, more typical mid-century plumbing issues (cast iron stacks, original water heaters, copper supply with galvanized transitions).

  • Tookany Creek corridor

    Older homes near the creek, with the basement water-management challenges that come with proximity to a creek prone to seasonal flooding.

  • Edge Hill Road area

    Mixed Cheltenham/Abington border zone. Knowing which township you are in is the first step before the permit application.

Plumbing problems common in Glenside homes

Because Glenside has one of the oldest median home ages in Guaranteed’s service area, the problems we see here skew toward issues that show up in pre-war housing:

Local utilities, rebates, and permits for Glenside

Glenside’s dual-township setup means utilities and permits have to be confirmed by address before any work that needs paperwork.

Water: Aqua Pennsylvania serves most of Glenside, the same way it serves most of Abington Township. Shutoff procedures, meter coordination, and water service line repair permits go through Aqua, not the City of Philadelphia or PWD.

Sewer: Per Cheltenham Township and Abington Township records, sewer service in Glenside depends on which township your home is in. Cheltenham Township operates its own sewer system feeding ultimately to the City of Philadelphia’s wastewater treatment system. Abington Township areas in Glenside are part of the Abington Wastewater Utilities system, which also routes through various interceptors. Either way, sewer lateral repairs require coordination with the township.

Gas: PECO Energy provides natural gas, not Philadelphia Gas Works. Per the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, PECO Gas runs a rebate program for high-efficiency natural gas equipment installs, separate from PGW’s. We document the equipment specs your invoice needs so the rebate is straightforward to file.

Permits: Plumbing permits for Cheltenham Township sections of Glenside go through Cheltenham Township. Abington Township sections go through Abington Township L&I. We pull whichever applies as part of the work.

Financing: Same GoodLeap instant-approval financing for larger jobs.

Credentials and licensing

Per the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections, a licensed Master Plumber must oversee plumbing work in Philadelphia, hold an active license, be current on City taxes, and carry insurance on file with L&I. Our license has been current since 1990. For Glenside work, we pull permits through either Cheltenham Township or Abington Township depending on where the property sits.

BBB Accredited

Listed as accredited on the Better Business Bureau.

Fully Insured

Liability and workers’ compensation coverage on file.

Family-Owned Since 1990

Based at 900 Cottman Avenue, serving Glenside as part of our standard Montgomery County coverage area for 35 years.

Frequently asked questions about plumbing in Glenside

Schedule a plumber in Glenside

One number, two townships, 35 years of routing trucks to 19038.

Glenside is a satellite town for us, not a home base. The work, though, is exactly what we do at home: licensed, permitted, priced before we cut anything, backed by the same Master Plumber license that has been current since the year the Glenside Free Library was already 62 years old. Call 215-342-7200 to schedule a plumber in Glenside, PA. We dispatch from 900 Cottman Avenue and the drive is about 20 minutes.

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