Emergency Plumber in Battersea

Burst pipe under a terrace off Northcote Road, or no hot water in a new flat by the Power Station? Call 07861 933265. A person answers, there is no call-out fee, and we usually get to SW11 and SW8 within 60 minutes, any hour of the day or night.

First steps: In a Battersea terrace the stopcock is normally under the kitchen sink, and older houses may have a second valve in the cellar. In mansion and riverside flats look in the kitchen, utility or hall cupboard. Switch off power to any wet area if you can reach the consumer unit safely. Gas: 0800 111 999 before anything else.

Two Batterseas

Battersea is two very different places to fix plumbing in. Behind Clapham Junction, along Lavender Hill and in the streets around Northcote Road, it is Victorian terraces, some still family houses and some split into flats. To the north, between Battersea Park and Nine Elms, it is glass and steel: towers and riverside blocks with plant rooms, pressurised systems and heat networks.

The terraces

Most of the terraced streets were built before 1970, and Thames Water advises that homes of that age may still have a lead supply pipe. Underneath, clay drains carry everything to the street, and those drains block with kitchen fat and wipes, or with roots at the joints. A basement or a rear kitchen extension added later often means a long, shallow drain run that blocks more easily than the original.

Mansion blocks along the park

The mansion blocks on Prince of Wales Drive and Albert Bridge Road date from around the turn of the twentieth century and share long soil stacks and risers between many flats. A leak can show several floors away from where it starts, and the valve that stops it may be in a locked cupboard. Have the porter’s or managing agent’s number ready.

The new riverside

In the newer blocks there is often no boiler in the flat. Heat and hot water come from the building through a heat interface unit, and when that unit scales up you lose hot water while next door is fine. Thames Water notes all the water in its region is hard, so scale is behind many hot water and shower faults on both sides of Battersea.

Rate and nearby

No call-out fee. £110 covers the first hour, then £45 per half hour, plus parts. We also cover Clapham Junction, Nine Elms and Queenstown Road, plus nearby Clapham and Wandsworth.