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HVAC, Plumbing & Electrical in Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Androscoggin County

Your Local Home Service Team in Lewiston

Aces Highlands brings heat pump, plumbing and electrical service to Lewiston's mill-city neighborhoods and everything built up around them since.

Lewiston's triple-deckers and tenement-era buildings need wiring and plumbing work that respects how those buildings were actually put together.

From water heaters to furnace installation, we serve homeowners across Lewiston. Request service today.

Why Choose Us for Lewiston

Local team based at 508 Riverside St Unit 1 in Portland — minutes from Lewiston
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 Lewiston

Lewiston grew up around Lewiston Falls on the Androscoggin River, which started powering the Bates Manufacturing Company's mill complex in 1852. For roughly three decades, Bates was Maine's single largest employer, and it stayed one of Lewiston's biggest employers well into the 20th century, a scale of industry that shaped the city's dense, mill-town neighborhoods.

The Androscoggin River still forms Lewiston's western border, separating it from twin city Auburn, and the two towns share more than a river: Lewiston draws its water through the jointly run Auburn Water District. That kind of shared infrastructure is common between the two cities, a legacy of how closely their industrial histories are tied together.

Lewiston Homes and What They Need

Lewiston's median home was built in 1957, with about 32 percent of the housing stock dating before 1940 and 54 percent before 1960 -- a mill-city profile concentrated in the tenement and triple-decker neighborhoods that grew up around the Bates Mill complex in the late 1800s and early 1900s. That density and age combination means plumbing work in older Lewiston buildings often has to account for shared walls and stacked units, not just a single-family layout.

Heating and Cooling in Lewiston

About 53 percent of Lewiston households heat mainly with fuel oil, 23 percent with utility gas, and 10 percent with electricity, per Census estimates, though Lewiston is not in Summit Natural Gas of Maine's published service area, so that utility-gas share likely reflects an older, more limited local distribution system rather than a modern buildout. Either way, a lot of Lewiston's oil-heated multi-unit buildings are strong candidates for a heat pump retrofit.

Water Supply and Drains in Lewiston

Water comes from the Auburn Water District, drawing on Lake Auburn and serving Lewiston and Auburn jointly, a shared arrangement between the two river cities. Wastewater goes to a joint regional authority as well, historically called the LAWPC and now operating as the Lewiston Auburn Clean Water Authority. On older multi-unit buildings connected to this shared system, a sewer line repair often means tracing a lateral that has been in the ground since the mill era.

Power, Storms and Wiring in Lewiston

Central Maine Power delivers electricity in Lewiston, and the city's own Public Works Electrical Services Division separately maintains municipal infrastructure like street lighting and pump stations, a distinct city crew, not part of CMP's residential grid. With roughly half the housing stock predating 1960, older panels and knob-and-tube wiring are a routine find, especially in Lewiston's dense triple-decker blocks. Rewiring an older Lewiston building is one of our most common electrical calls.

Local & Independent — Not a Franchise

Aces Highlands is a locally owned Portland, Maine company serving Lewiston — 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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Service Info

Service Area

Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME

Phone

(207) 670-8616

Hours

Open 24 hours, 7 days a week

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Lewiston at a Glance

37,121

Population (Census / ACS estimate)

Median year built: 1957

Homes built before 194032%

Homes built before 196054%

Main Heating Fuels

Heating oil 53%
Natural gas 23%
Electricity 10%
Other 14%

Water

Auburn Water District (jointly serves Lewiston and Auburn)

Sewer

Lewiston-Auburn regional wastewater authority (referenced on the City of Lewiston's own site as "LAWPC"; now operating as the Lewiston Auburn Clean Water Authority, lacwa.org)

Electric Utility

Central Maine Power (CMP)

Code Office

Planning & Code Enforcement, City of Lewiston

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · api.censusreporter.org · lewistonmaine.gov · lewistonmaine.gov · lewistonmaine.gov · summitnaturalgasmaine.com · maine.gov · maine.gov