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What a Local Law 152 inspection costs

Two costs, and only one of them is knowable in advance. DOB's filing fee is $35 and is the same for every building. The inspection itself is quoted, not listed. Most NYC firms publish no price at all. Of the ones that do, published figures start between $399 and $850 depending on the firm and the building.

Check a building

Paste a list of addresses or BBLs and get each building's community district, its sub-cycle, and the dates that lead up to its deadline, read from DOB's own covered-buildings list.

Open the due date lookup

The part that is fixed

These are set by rule, identical for every building, and payable to DOB rather than to your plumber. 1 RCNY §101-03.

DOB filing fees. New in 2026; there was no filing fee before this year.
FilingFee
Certification of the periodic inspection, the routine one $35
Extension request$35
Certification of correction$35
Certification of no gas piping system$375
Documentation regarding no gas service$480

Two things worth knowing. The fee only started being collected on 27 July 2026, so pages written before then that tell you filing is free were correct at the time and are not now. And no firm we checked bundles the $35 into a published price, so assume it is on top.

The part that is not fixed

We looked at around twenty-five NYC plumbing and compliance firms. Eight publish a number. The rest put everything behind a quote form.

That is the real answer to the question, and it is more useful than a made-up average. Here is what the eight actually say, with dates, because a price from 2021 is not a price.

Published prices, quoted from each firm's own site. Checked September 2026. These are their words, not our estimates, and we are not recommending or ranking anyone.
FirmPublished pricePage last changed
HBNY Plumbing$399 for a 3 to 6 family building, $499 for most others, free estimates over 20 unitsAug 2026
Mark Henry Plumbing and HeatingStarts at $400, depending on building size and locationFeb 2026
RanshawFrom $650 and higher2021
Stanley Lewis Plumbing and HeatingMinimum charge $750Aug 2026
The PAR GroupCosts begin at $850Feb 2026
Empire PlumbingOften starting around $800, up to $10,000 for larger properties2022
ATG Mechanical and M&S Mechanical$1,000 to $10,0002024 to 2026

ATG and M&S publish the same range in near-identical wording, so treat that as one figure, not two. Ranshaw and Empire predate the filing fee and a lot else.

What we will not do. Several sites publish tidy cost bands by building size. The ones we traced were either software-generated estimates that the publisher itself labels as unverified, or unattributed numbers from a compliance vendor with no source and no date. They look more helpful than the table above and they are worth less. We would rather tell you the market is quote-gated than invent a number you might budget against.

What moves the price

Firms that explain their pricing name roughly the same inputs. This is their reasoning, not ours.

Nobody publishes a per-riser or per-meter rate. Meters and pipe footage are inputs to a private formula, not a listed unit price. If a page implies you can compute your own cost from a rate card, no such card exists publicly.

What is not in the inspection price

Corrections. If the inspection finds conditions requiring correction, the repair is separate work on a separate timetable, and the certification of correction is another $35 filing. Firms that address this are explicit that repairs, filings and closeout sit outside the inspection fee.

Repair costs have no meaningful published range. They run from trivial to a gas line replacement costing more than the building's annual maintenance budget, depending on what is found and how much has to be opened up to reach it.

Getting a quote you can compare

Quotes are hard to compare because firms scope them differently. Four questions make them comparable.

  1. Does the price include filing the certification, and is the $35 DOB fee inside or outside it? Some firms file for you, some hand you the paperwork. Filing is legally the owner's job either way, so if they do not file, that work lands on you.
  2. Who is on site, and are they registered? Since 10 June 2026 a non-LMP inspector needs a DOB journeyman plumber registration and an approved training course. Fair to ask.
  3. How fast is the turnaround on the report? The rule gives them up to thirty days. Your filing clock is sixty days from the inspection, and the penalty date may bite sooner. Thirty days of paperwork in December is a problem.
  4. What happens if conditions are found? Get the correction work and the correction filing priced as a possibility now, not as a surprise later.

The cheapest inspection is not always the cheapest outcome

The penalty for not filing is $1,500 for a 3-family building and $5,000 for everything else. A missed filing costs several times the inspection. So does a filing that lands after day sixty, because that voids the certification and forces a new inspection, which means paying for the whole thing twice.

That is the actual financial risk in LL152. It is not the inspection price. It is the administration around it.

Questions people actually ask

How much does a Local Law 152 inspection cost in NYC?

Most firms quote rather than publish. Among NYC firms that do publish, starting prices run from $399 for a small multi-family building to $850, with wider ranges up to $10,000 quoted for large or complex properties. DOB's filing fee of $35 is separate and fixed.

Is there a DOB fee on top of the inspection price?

Yes. $35 to file the certification, under 1 RCNY §101-03, payable since 27 July 2026. No firm we checked bundles it into a published price.

Why will nobody give me a price over the phone?

Price depends on meters, exposed pipe footage, mechanical and boiler rooms, floors using gas, and building size. Firms that explain their pricing describe a formula over those inputs rather than a flat rate.

Does the inspection price include repairs?

No. Corrections are separate work with their own timetable, and the certification of correction is a further $35 filing.

What is the most expensive mistake?

Filing more than sixty days after the inspection. Under §103-10(d)(2) the certification does not count and the building needs a new inspection, so you pay for the inspection twice and may still draw the penalty.

Sources

  1. 1 RCNY §101-03, the DOB fee rule. nyc.gov/assets/buildings/rules/1_RCNY_101-03.pdf
  2. DOB Service Notice Follow-up #8, 8 July 2026, on the move to DOB NOW. nyc.gov, Service Notice Follow-up #8
  3. 1 RCNY §103-10, Gas Piping System Periodic Inspections, NYC Department of Buildings. nyc.gov/assets/buildings/rules/1_RCNY_103-10.pdf
  4. HBNY Plumbing, published LL152 pricing. hbnyplumbing.com
  5. Stanley Lewis Plumbing and Heating, published LL152 minimum charge. stanleylewisplumbing.com/ll152
  6. Mark Henry Plumbing and Heating, published LL152 starting price. locallaw152inspection.com
  7. The PAR Group, LL152 FAQ with published starting cost. pargroup.com/local-law-152-faqs

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Who made this

Our team at 02Launch.com builds AI into the workflows your managers already run. We made this page because DOB publishes the covered-buildings list as a spreadsheet, and matching a managed portfolio against it by hand is a day’s work.

What a 30 minute call with our AI engineers does for you:

  • Your portfolio out of your own system, not a paste. The lookup reads 250 lines at a time and forgets them when you close the tab. A build reads the buildings straight out of the system you already keep them in, so the list is never a stale copy and nobody re-keys it.
  • The filing window shrinks as the year runs out. The rule gives you sixty days after the inspection to file, and the year end caps it. Inspect on 1 December and you have thirty days, not sixty. Inspect on the 20th and you have eleven.
  • The rest of the calendar, not just this one. LL152 is one line. Facade, boiler and elevator cycles run on their own clocks in their own portals. The same build watches them and tells you when one moves.
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