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Boiler Repair in Lexington, MA

In Lexington, 32% of households heat with oil and 54% with gas — enough of each that neither is an assumption anybody should make about your house without looking.

In brief

32% of homes in Lexington run on fuel oil against 54% on gas. The figure describes house heating rather than the appliance itself, but it is the best free indication of which kind of boiler a given street is likely to hold.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.

BoilerBridge is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect homeowners with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no work, we sell no equipment, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

How Lexington heats

A mixed town usually has both trades available, which is worth knowing when you are choosing somebody. Ask how much boiler work they do rather than whether they can — the two answers are different.

Households in Lexington	Share
Fuel oil and kerosene	32%
Gas — mains and bottled	54%
Electricity	13%
Wood, coal, solar or no fuel	1%

Across the 129 towns we cover in Massachusetts, 21% of households heat with oil. Lexington sits 6 points below that.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. Universe: 12,337 occupied housing units. B25040 records the fuel, not the system — it does not distinguish a boiler from a furnace, and we do not claim it does.

Carbon monoxide

The alarm and the service do different jobs. An alarm tells you combustion has already gone wrong; the annual service is what stops it going wrong. CPSC recommends both, and neither substitutes for the other.

Source: US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet.

Hot water or steam

Radiators tell you too. A steam radiator has one pipe, or two, and a small vent that hisses; a hot water radiator has a pipe in and a pipe out and a bleed screw at the top. It is a ten-second check and it decides half the diagnosis.

Source: US Department of Energy, Energy Conservation Standards for Residential Boilers.

What to ask whoever comes

Ask whether the fault was diagnosed or inferred. "It is probably the circulator" and "the circulator is drawing no current" are different sentences, and only one of them justifies a part.

Other Massachusetts towns we route in

Needham 35% heat with oil
Stoneham 28% heat with oil
Woburn 29% heat with oil
Roslindale 12% heat with oil
Newton 13% heat with oil

Everywhere we route in Massachusetts

Checking a plumber in Massachusetts

Massachusetts licenses are issued by the Massachusetts Board of State Examiners of Plumbers and Gas Fitters, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

A boiler is not a furnace, and the person you want knows the difference.Tell us it is a boiler, tell us what the gauge reads if you can see it, and we will route you to somebody in your area who works on them. You are never charged. Past boilers, Lexington is covered for the rest of it.

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