Emergency Plumber in Enfield
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A burst in an outbuilding off The Ridgeway, a leak under a drive in Bush Hill Park or a blocked drain near Enfield Town? Call 07861 933265. There is no call-out fee, someone answers at any hour, and we usually reach EN1, EN2 and EN3 within 60 minutes.
Turning off the water: In terraces and semis the stopcock is normally under the kitchen sink or the stairs. Bigger plots may have a second valve for a garage, outbuilding or garden supply, and the outside stop valve is near the boundary. Keep away from wet electrics. Smell gas? Ring 0800 111 999 first.
Three kinds of Enfield
Around Bush Hill Park and Enfield Town the houses are late Victorian and Edwardian, with clay drains, conversions loading one stack, and older supply pipes. Through Gordon Hill and Chase Side it is mostly interwar semis with loft tanks and cylinders. Out towards Forty Hill and the edges of Enfield Chase the plots get bigger and more rural, and so do the distances the pipes have to travel.
Long runs and buried leaks
On the bigger plots the supply pipe can run a long way under a drive or lawn before it reaches the house, and garages, stables and garden rooms often have their own feed. Those are the pipes that freeze and split in a hard winter, and the ones where a leak can go unnoticed for weeks. The supply pipe from your boundary to the house is your responsibility, so a meter that keeps turning with every tap shut is worth acting on.
Interwar semis
In the 1930s streets the classic emergencies are a loft tank overflowing because a float valve has stuck, a copper cylinder that has started to weep at a joint, and an immersion heater that has given up. Hard water speeds up all three.
Rate and nearby
£110 for the first hour, £45 per half hour after it, plus parts, with no call-out fee. We also cover Bush Hill Park, Forty Hill and Enfield Highway, and nearby Edmonton, Southgate and Potters Bar.
Enfield at a glance
- Postcodes we cover
- EN1
- EN2
- EN3
- Streets we often visit
- Church Street
- Silver Street
- Baker Street
- Chase Side
- Lancaster Road
- Windmill Hill
- Southbury Road
- Lincoln Road
- Forty Hill
- Gentleman's Row
- The Ridgeway
- Uvedale Road
- Gordon Road
- Parsonage Lane
- Carterhatch Lane
- Local landmarks
- Enfield Town
- Bush Hill Park
- Gordon Hill
- Forty Hill
- Enfield Chase
- Chase Side
Questions people ask
Our water bill has jumped and there is a wet patch on the drive. Is it a leak?
Very likely. Turn off every tap in the house and look at the water meter; if the dial still moves, water is escaping somewhere between the meter and your taps. A wet patch on the drive or lawn that never dries is a common sign of a leak on the supply pipe, which is the homeowner's to repair from the boundary inwards.
How do I protect pipes in a garage or outbuilding over winter?
If the outbuilding has its own supply, find the isolating valve for it, turn it off and drain the pipe by opening the tap at the far end. Lag any pipe that stays in use, and do not rely on a single electric heater that might fail on the coldest night.
Do Enfield houses still have lead water pipes?
Some do. Thames Water says homes built before 1970 may have lead on the supply pipe. In Enfield that covers the Victorian streets around Bush Hill Park and the town centre, and many interwar houses too.
How much is an emergency plumber in Enfield?
There is no call-out fee. The first hour is £110 and each further half hour is £45, plus parts, at any hour of the day or night.
Sources
- Pipe responsibility, Thames Water
- Lead pipe replacement, Thames Water