Our Norfolk branch started in 2001 as Norfolk Plumbing, with one man and a truck. It joined Powell's in 2022, and it's still the same people Hampton Roads customers already knew, working out of the Chelsea Business District on the edge of Ghent.
Norfolk Plumbing started in 2001 with one man, one truck and a garage, and grew into a shop that Hampton Roads homeowners called for the jobs other plumbers turned down. In 2022 it joined Powell's, the Winchester company that's been fixing homes since 1989.
The name on the truck changed. The people didn't. Customers still see the same plumbers they've known for years, now with the backing of a company that runs three branches across Virginia and North Carolina.
Norfolk's specialty is older homes: cast iron drains, galvanized supply lines and old boilers with radiators. As our Norfolk service manager puts it, a lot of companies look up the ZIP code and won't come out because of the age of the home. That's when we get the call.
Local people, in uniform, who live and work in the same towns they serve.
Real photos from our crews.
About 12 years at this location, after starting out in residential and commercial new construction. Right before Christmas, when a family's boiler died and took their heat and hot water with it, his crew set up a temporary water heater and electric heaters to get them through.
“They appreciate that we actually explain the problem and how we're going to fix it.”
Runs the schedule and the service side, and knows Norfolk's older homes inside and out.
“We promise to leave the job site cleaner than we arrived.”
Twelve years in the trade, after starting out in masonry. Once fished a customer's jewelry out of a drain. They were really excited.
Cast iron, galvanized pipe and boilers with radiators are everyday work for this team, not a reason to turn down the job.
Shoe covers, drop cloths and a clean-up before we leave. Once, after a sewer trench in sandy soil, the crew bought seed and replanted the customer's lawn.
Licensed for gas, and used to working alongside Virginia Natural Gas, even in a snowstorm.
We hire licensed plumbers and HVAC technicians, and we train people who are new to the trades. No resume? Just call the Norfolk office. See careers at Powell's
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