Aces Highlands heat pump installation in progress: vacuum pump and refrigerant gauges connected to an outdoor unit on a brick home

HVAC, Plumbing & Electrical in Bath, Maine

Bath, Sagadahoc County

Your Local Home Service Team in Bath

Aces Highlands provides heat pump, plumbing and electrical service across Bath, from the historic district to the Whiskeag Trail neighborhoods.

Bath's shipbuilding-era homes call for careful, code-aware work -- our panel upgrades account for the Planning Board review that exterior work in the historic district can require.

From tankless water heaters to boiler repair, we are here for Bath homeowners. Get in touch today.

Why Choose Us for Bath

Local team based at 508 Riverside St Unit 1 in Portland — minutes from Bath
Honest diagnostics and transparent pricing — no upselling
Same-week scheduling for most service calls
Licensed, insured, and reviewed by real customers on Google

Getting to Know Bath

Bath was incorporated as a town in 1781 and chartered as a city in 1847, named after Bath, Somerset, England. Since 1743, roughly 5,000 vessels have been built along its Kennebec River waterfront, including the Wyoming, widely considered the largest wooden ship ever built, launched from the Percy & Small Shipyard.

Bath Iron Works, founded in 1884 by Thomas W. Hyde, has built hundreds of Navy vessels and given the city its 'City of Ships' nickname, one that still fits given how much of the local economy still runs through the shipyard. The Abenaki called the river itself 'Sagadahoc,' meaning the mouth of the big river, which is also where Sagadahoc County gets its name.

Bath Homes and What They Need

Bath has the oldest housing stock among the Sagadahoc towns Aces serves, with a median build year of 1938 and 57.5 percent of homes dating before 1940 (66.5 percent before 1960). That history traces straight back to the city's shipbuilding boom, and it means downtown and the surrounding historic district carry plenty of original wiring and cast-iron plumbing. Exterior changes in the historic district need Planning Board review under the city's Land Use Code, so a heat pump installation here often starts with figuring out where the outdoor unit can go.

Heating and Cooling in Bath

About 47 percent of Bath households heat mainly with fuel oil, with bottled or tank propane at 20 percent and electricity at nearly 20 percent, and the city sits within Maine Natural Gas's service territory. With so much of the housing stock this old, a boiler repair call is just as likely to turn up a decades-old cast-iron boiler as a newer high-efficiency unit.

Water Supply and Drains in Bath

The Bath Water District has drawn public water from Nequasset Lake, a watershed mostly in neighboring Woolwich, for more than a hundred years. The city's own Public Works department runs the wastewater treatment plant, discharging to the tidal Kennebec River, and parts of the older collection system are combined sewers that can back up during heavy rain. On Bath's older streets, a drain cleaning call during a big storm is sometimes really a combined-sewer issue rather than a private-line clog.

Power, Storms and Wiring in Bath

Central Maine Power serves Bath, and with well over half the city's homes built before 1960, older panels and circuits are a routine part of the job here, sometimes original to a shipbuilding-era house. Upgrading the panel is frequently the first move before adding central air, a heat pump or an EV charger to one of Bath's older homes.

Local & Independent — Not a Franchise

Aces Highlands is a locally owned Portland, Maine company serving Bath — not a national franchise. Our technicians are not commissioned salespeople and nobody here is required to upsell you anything. We do the work you called us for, do it right, and earn the next call. That is the whole business model.

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