Kittery bathroom remodels split along three lines. Postwar year-round homes through the Mitchell School area, the Whipple Road corridor, and inland blocks are typical mid-century: copper supply, cast iron drain stacks, bath layouts generous for 1955, but tight for a modern double-vanity. Older Kittery Point and Foreside homes are period work — lead bends, original galvanized, cast iron stacks that have served three generations. Newer inland builds are straightforward PEX. We plumb to your specific fixtures. Inspector-ready before drywall closes.

Kittery kitchens often want to reposition the sink for a harbor or cove view — Kittery Point and Foreside especially. We run new drain and supply through the most direct path, re-vent the new location, and install dedicated branches for dishwasher, refrigerator water line, disposal, and any pot filler.

Kittery heaters skew heavily electric tank in the postwar housing stock and increasingly heat-pump hybrid in newer builds. Natural gas in Unitil pockets; propane handles most of the rest. Most common scenario: a 50-gallon electric from the 1980s that finally gave up at year 35 or 40. We size for actual household use and quote venting on any tankless retrofit.

Kittery Water District water blends four small surface ponds in York — Boulter, Middle, Upper Folly, and Bell Marsh Reservoir — producing moderately soft to moderately hard water depending on the seasonal blend. Gentle on heat exchangers but not gentle enough to skip periodic descale. We descale every 18–24 months, replace inlet screens, verify gas pressure under load, and inspect venting.

Kittery repipe scope falls into two patterns. First is the older Kittery Point, Foreside, and Town Center home with galvanized supply that’s been mineral-closing for a century — new PEX or copper from the meter to every fixture, old galvanized abandoned in place, venting re-tied where walls are open. Second is the cottage-edge or harbor-edge home — including seasonal Gerrish Island runs — where supply routes through unconditioned crawl spaces or exterior walls that freeze in a hard cold snap; we re-route inside the conditioned envelope and add freeze protection where re-routing isn’t possible. Both scopes get a written, fixed quote before we cut anything.

Older Kittery Point and Foreside laterals run clay or early cast iron to the town sewer main, with mature trees working into the joints for a century. Snake first, camera when warranted. The inland blocks past the I-95 interchange, parts of Gerrish Island, and Kittery Point past the village core are outside town sewer — private septic.

Same-visit replacements when parts are available. Moen, Delta, Kohler cartridges on the truck.

Pre-1900 Kittery Point and Foreside toilets frequently sit on lead bends with corroded brass shutoffs. We quote that scope up front. Postwar and newer swaps are straightforward.

Inland Kittery, parts of Kittery Point past the village, and most of Gerrish Island sit outside the Water District. Submersible pumps 100–300 feet down, pressure tanks in basements, switches that stick after coastal-humid summers. Pump replacement, tank changeout, switch service, drop-pipe rewiring. We don’t drill new wells.

Right on the shoreline the Atlantic keeps frost shallow. A thousand feet inland — behind the Foreside, into the Mitchell School blocks, into Gerrish Island’s interior — frost catches up fast. Classic Kittery failure: a bibb installed in cottage days, now feeding a year-round household that hears the geyser the first time a hard cold snap rolls in. Outdoor showers across Kittery Point and Gerrish Island fall in the same scope — install, retrofit for winterization, and drainage rebuild where seasonal use has eroded the splash zone into the foundation footing.

Harbor-edge homes in the Foreside, Pepperrell Cove blocks, Badger’s Island, and lower-elevation Gerrish Island lots all see seasonal water. Storm surge during nor’easters stacks on top of an already-high water table. Primary sumps, battery-backup secondaries, discharge routed away from the foundation.

Mixed natural gas (Unitil pockets in town center) and propane (most of the rest). Extending gas to a range, plumbing a dryer hookup, sizing for a generator or tankless retrofit. Manometer leak-test before we leave.