Umberto Santagati M

Umbi is a great plumber. I was impressed with his professionalism and knowledge. He did a great job with the plumbing in our kitchen and everything works great. Umbi is my go-to plumber for everything now.

Great. Umberto was super creative in thinking about the options and coming up with one that worked as a temporary, inexpensive solution. Stuck with the problem until we came up with something that worked.

He scheduled the work right away and was very professional. The pricing was reasonable as well.

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Recommended by another wonderful local professional, we did not actually find Mr. Santagati through Angie's list. His willingness to accommodate our schedule with houseful of company coming, work through a little hole doing a big job, and charge such a reasonable price, deserved a good review. He was also very kind to my daughter when she called him with more questions after the job was done. I would absolutely hire him again.

This guy did a very fine job for a price so cheap you'd have to see it to believe it.

Umberto has helped us out a number of times on both an emergency and non emergency basis. We are completely confident in his work and particularly appreciate his gracious and easy nature. We were referred to him by a neighbor and have referred him a number of times since then. Thanks so so much!

We were restoring a working circa-1900 bathroom. It was VERY hard to find a plumber on our wavelength because we wanted to save as much as possible, be minimally intrusive, and reuse original fixtures. (also on a budget - all but plumbing and electrical was a DIY job). Vast majority of plumbers don't want to touch old pipes, only interested in gutting everything and starting from scratch - e.g. pulling up entire antique hardwood floor, ditching a beautiful antique sink because faucet holes aren't the right measurement for modern faucets, etc. But Umberto really 'got it' and was willing to work with us. Turns out we did have to replace some old lead pipes under the floor but he did so in the most non-intrusive way possible (removed the planks carefully so we could re-use them). It was an adventure because reusing antique fixtures involved a lot of internet legwork to find drains, faucets etc that fit 100-year-old sink and tub dimensions. I was on my own for that - Umberto was not very interested in engaging with that part of the job (can't really blame him - it was a time-suck and he had other jobs to do) but he was happy to install what I produced and he dropped by several times to check if my purchases would work (will this faucet assembly fit the antique sink? No, ok, return it and try one slightly different). He was also creative about solutions to make things fit. And he remained pleasant throughout. I call him the 'old-pipe whisperer.' Just a really decent man.

We used him last December. He was very good and we liked him very much. We wanted to find someone who was very careful and conscientious about not breaking the antique fixtures. He did a great job.

After our basement flooded in March 2010 we decided that we needed to have a sump pump installed. The hole for the pump was already there, but we did not have a pump. We contacted and received estimates from several plumbers, but decided to go with Umberto for two reasons - 1) he had done all the plumbing work in connection with the remodeling of our master bathroom last year and we were very pleased with that work and 2) He came early on a Sat. morning to look over the situation and provide an estimate for the sump pump work and the estimate was very reasonable. Umberto came as scheduled and installed the pump and piping to the outside in a few hours. We discussed options for the outside piping placement - Umberto makes good suggestions, but is also open to the ideas of the customer. He ran into a hidden cable wire and immediately brought it to our attention. Although we hope that we won't need it, having the pump gives us peace of mind. The final price was actually less than the estimate. We would definitely hire Umberto for future plumbing work.