Plumbing and general maintenance

Small jobs done properly

Plenty of plumbers will not touch a half hour job. I will, because that is how people find out whether they want you back for the bathroom.

I turn up when I say I will, I clean up after myself, and I tell you the price before I pick a tool up.

Leaks and water damage

If you have a leak, get the stopcock off and ring me. I trace where the water is actually coming from before opening anything up, which usually saves a lot of making good afterwards.

Common questions

Do you charge a call out fee?

For standard daytime work I price the job, not the doorstep. Emergency call outs are £80 for the first hour and £30 for every hour after that.

Case studies

Newcastle

Kitchen first fix, radiator move and gas pipe repair in Newcastle

A full kitchen strip out in Newcastle needing first fix plumbing throughout: new hot, cold and waste runs, a radiator moved to a better wall, and a leaking gas pipe found and repaired while the floor was up.

Sheepwash, Guidepost

Hot water repipe and secondary circuit in Guidepost

A leaking hot water run buried in a concrete floor left a big old house with no hot water downstairs. I abandoned the buried pipework, repiped the ground floor from above and added a secondary hot water circuit for instant hot water at every tap.

Northumberland

Plumbing maintenance: pipework replacement

Old flexible waste and pipework in a tight void replaced with proper solvent weld and copper, clipped and supported so it will last.

Northumberland

First fix plumbing

Full first fix on a new build, hot, cold, heating and waste set out through the studs and floor void, clipped, labelled and pressure tested before the plasterboard went on.