Emergency Plumber in Ealing
A leak between the flats of a converted villa off Castlebar Road, a loft tank overflowing in Pitshanger, or no hot water in West Ealing? Call 07861 933265. We answer at any hour, charge no call-out fee and usually reach W5, W7 and W13 within 60 minutes.
Before we get there: Close the stopcock, usually under the kitchen sink or the floor just inside the front door. In a converted villa there may be one valve in the hall or the ground-floor flat. Turn off electrics near the leak if it is safe to. Smell gas? 0800 111 999 before anything else.
The Queen of the Suburbs, in flats
Ealing earned its nickname from its big Victorian and Edwardian villas, and those houses are where most of its plumbing emergencies happen today. Around Northfields, West Ealing and the streets near Walpole Park, many have been split into two or three flats, with new kitchens and bathrooms all draining into one original stack. Leaks between flats, slow drains upstairs and blockages backing up into the lowest flat follow.
Pitshanger, Brentham and the interwar north
Further north, Pitshanger, the Brentham Garden Suburb and the interwar streets beyond have houses with gravity hot water: a tank in the loft, a cylinder in the airing cupboard. Float valves stick, cylinders weep and immersion heaters burn out, all helped along by hard water. Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard.
Older supply pipes
Many Ealing houses were built well before 1970, and Thames Water says homes of that age may have lead supply pipes. Old lead weeps at joints, and stopcocks on it can be stiff; do not force a seized one.
Rate and nearby
£110 for the first hour, £45 per half hour after that, plus parts, with no call-out fee. We also cover Hanwell, Northfields and West Ealing, and nearby Chiswick, Hammersmith and Wembley.
Ealing at a glance
- Postcodes we cover
- W5
- W13
- W7
- Streets we often visit
- The Broadway
- New Broadway
- Uxbridge Road
- Haven Green
- Mattock Lane
- Castlebar Road
- Pitshanger Lane
- Gordon Road
- Northfield Avenue
- St Mary's Road
- Eaton Rise
- South Ealing Road
- Mount Park Road
- Culmington Road
- Drayton Green Road
- Local landmarks
- Ealing Broadway
- Walpole Park
- Pitshanger
- Northfields
- West Ealing
- Hanwell
Questions people ask
Our villa was split into three flats and the top flat's bath empties slowly. Why?
When a big house is converted, the new bathrooms upstairs often join the original stack through long branches with little fall, and hair and soap settle in them. If only the top bath is slow, it is probably that branch; if all three flats are slow, the stack itself is the problem.
The immersion heater in our Pitshanger house keeps failing. Why?
Hard water. Scale builds up on the element until it overheats and burns out, and on a thermostat that then misreads the temperature. A new element and thermostat fix it, and a scale inhibitor on the supply can help the next one last longer.
Does my Ealing house have a lead water pipe?
It might. Thames Water says homes built before 1970 may have lead supply pipes, which covers most of Ealing's Victorian, Edwardian and interwar houses. A dull grey, soft pipe coming up through the floor near the stopcock is the usual giveaway.
How much is an emergency plumber in Ealing?
No call-out fee. The first hour is £110; each half hour after is £45, plus parts, at the same rate day and night.
Sources
- Lead pipe replacement, Thames Water
- Hard water, Thames Water