Tamworth is five villages, one small private water system, and a whole lot of wells, septic tanks, and seasonal houses spread across sixty square miles. We handle the plumbing side of that — frozen lines in empty camps, closings and openings on Chocorua Lake, water heaters on hard well water, drains, and remodels — from Wonalancet to Whittier.
Tamworth is five villages — Tamworth village in the middle, Chocorua on Route 16 to the east, South Tamworth and Whittier along Route 25 and the Bearcamp River to the south, and Wonalancet up around eleven hundred feet in the northwest corner against the Sandwich Range. Sixty square miles, under three thousand people, and the White Mountain National Forest along the whole north edge.
There’s no town water and no town sewer. A small private water company serves about sixty houses in the village, and a private association septic system with a couple dozen connections handles the Main Street core. Everyone else — which is nearly everyone — is on a well and a septic tank. Down in the Bearcamp lowlands the wells often sit in the sand and gravel of the Ossipee aquifer; up on the hills they’re drilled into ledge, and the water is harder and often carries iron.
The housing tells the seasonal story. Old summer cottages ring Chocorua Lake, where motorboats have been banned by state law for fifty years and the surrounding land is mostly under conservation covenant. Camps sit around White Lake and along the river. Ski houses off Route 16 and 113 fill up for winter weekends and sit empty midweek. The census counts something like a third of the houses in town as vacant, and most of those are seasonal.
Add a cold climate — the January average low is around 10°F, and Wonalancet has seen 24 below — and a housing stock that runs mostly on oil heat, and you have our winter: frozen and split lines in houses nobody was in. Our summer is the reverse. Openings, water heaters, the bathroom that finally gets rebuilt.
Tamworth also has no zoning, which means the town’s paperwork on a remodel is light. The state plumbing code isn’t. We work to it, on every job, in every village.
If your Tamworth house sits empty in winter, the two cheapest things you can do are a low-temperature alarm that texts you and a shut-off at the pressure tank that whoever checks the house knows how to find. Most of our January calls from this town would have been a phone call instead.
Seasonal shutdowns and spring startups, done methodically and documented in writing.
Tank and tankless, sized for your house and our cold inlet water — not just matched to the old one.
Clogged sinks, tubs, toilets, and main lines cleared — plus why it clogged in the first place.
Faucets, toilets, shut-off valves, tub and shower work, and remodel rough-in.
Emergency or routine, year-round house or seasonal camp — tell us what’s going on and we’ll give you a straight answer on cost and timing.
Describe what’s happening and where the property is. We’ll come back with a straight answer on what it likely is, what it should cost, and when we can be there. If it’s an emergency, say so in the first line.
We reply to every request within 2 business hours.
