Furnace Installation
80%–96% AFUE gas furnaces, sized properly with a Manual J — not a guess. Includes removal, haul-away, and a 10-year parts warranty.
$3,400installed, typical
Family-Run · Merchantville, NJ
Three generations of plumbers and heating techs working out of a shop on the corner of Maple & Chestnut. Honest diagnostics. Flat-rate pricing. Work that lasts.
Heat that holds. Pipes that behave. Since 1998.
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The Shop
A neighborhood trade, kept honest for twenty-six years.
Hopkins Plumbing & Heating LLC started in 1998 out of a one-truck operation run by Walt Hopkins, a third-generation plumber who learned the trade from his father in Pennsauken. Today the shop runs four fully-stocked vans across Merchantville and the wider Camden County area — but the rule hasn't changed: show up on time, diagnose before you quote, and never sell a homeowner something they don't need.
We're licensed in the state of New Jersey for plumbing and HVAC work (NJ Master Plumber Lic. 14287), fully insured, and we keep a real human on the phone — not a call center. When you call Hopkins, you're talking to a dispatcher who sits in the shop ten minutes from your front door.
Walt Hopkins
Owner · Master Plumber, NJ Lic. 14287
Walt on a furnace tune-up
02/24
The shop bench
Maple Ave
Services & Indicative Pricing
Everything that carries water, warmth, or cool air — with the price up front.
We quote by the job, not the hour. The numbers below are what most Merchantville homeowners actually pay — your final quote is locked before any tool comes out of the van. No surprise line items, no "diagnostic" upsells.
Central AC Install
14–18 SEER condensers and matching air handlers. We seal the ductwork while we're there — most shops don't.
$4,2002.5-ton typical
Furnace or AC Repair
Ignitors, capacitors, blower motors, refrigerant top-up, flame sensors. Diagnostics fee waived if you book the repair with us.
$185flat-rate, parts extra
Water Heater Swap
40- and 50-gallon gas or electric, plus tankless upgrades. Same-day in most cases, old unit hauled away.
$1,650gas, 50-gal
Drain Cleaning & Snaking
Kitchen sinks, main line backups, slow tubs. We camera the line if it's recurring — you see what we see.
$220typical visit
Whole-Home Repipe
Galvanized or polybutylene replacement with Type L copper or PEX-A. Drywall patching included. One-day turnaround on most homes.
$4,8002-bath typical
Boiler Service & Repair
Cast-iron and wall-hung boilers, hydronic loops, radiators, zone valves. Annual service keeps efficiency up and warranties intact.
$240annual service
Gas Line Run
New runs for stoves, dryers, fireplaces, and outdoor grills. Pressure-tested and inspected. Permits pulled by us.
$380per drop, typical
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Call Emergency Line
Heat out at 2 a.m.? Pipe burst on Christmas?
We run an after-hours dispatch line for actual emergencies — no heat in winter, no water, an active leak, or a furnace that won't ignite. A licensed tech, not an answering service, calls you back within fifteen minutes.
From the phone call to the last joint, four steps.
No mystery, no "we'll send a quote sometime next week." Here's exactly what happens between your call and a warm house.
01
You call, we pick up
A real dispatcher in the Merchantville shop takes your details, asks the right questions, and books a window — usually same-day for urgent calls.
02
Diagnose on site
The tech arrives in a stocked van, finds the actual cause, and walks you through it before any work starts. You see the part, the leak, or the fault code yourself.
03
Locked-in quote
Flat-rate price, written down, signed off. No hourly meter running. If the job grows because of something we missed, that's on us — not on your bill.
04
Done & documented
We clean up, test everything twice, and leave a written record of the work plus any warranty info. You can call back any time — we remember your house.
Neighbors Say
The reviews we actually read at the shop.
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Our furnace quit on the coldest night of January. Walt's son Danny was at our door in forty minutes, had the ignitor swapped, and stayed to make sure the house hit 70° before he left. That's a real trade.
★★★★★
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I called three places about a slow leak under the kitchen sink. Two never called back, one quoted me $900 to "find it." Hopkins diagnosed a worn trap in ten minutes, replaced it for $180, and didn't try to sell me a repipe I didn't need.
★★★★★
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They put our central AC in three summers ago and still remember the job when I call for the spring tune-up. Clean work, fair price, and they actually showed up on the day they said they would.
★★★★★
Book a Visit
Tell us what's going on. We'll tell you when we can be there.
Fill out the form and a dispatcher in the Merchantville shop will call you back within the hour during business hours. For after-hours emergencies — no heat, no water, an active leak — use the call button below and we'll have a licensed tech on the line within fifteen minutes.
Service Area
Merchantville & surrounding Camden County — Pennsauken, Cherry Hill, Collingswood, Haddonfield, Maple Shade. ~25-mile radius.
Licensed & Insured
NJ Master Plumber Lic. 14287 · NJ HVAC Lic. 1943 · Fully insured general liability & workers' comp.
- Monday – Friday7:00a – 7:00p
- Saturday8:00a – 4:00p
- SundayEmergencies only
- Holidays24/7 emergency dispatch