Emergency Plumber in Harlow

A cylinder leaking in a Mark Hall airing cupboard, a weak combi in Potter Street or a drain backing up in Church Langley? Call 07861 933265. We pick up at any hour, there is no call-out fee, and we usually reach Harlow within 60 minutes.

First, isolate: Close the stopcock, usually under the kitchen sink. If the leak is at the cylinder, switch off the immersion heater too. In a block, check the kitchen cupboards; the riser valve is outside the flat. Keep electrics away from water. Smell gas? Ring 0800 111 999 first.

A new town, built in one go

Harlow was built as a new town after the Second World War, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, to shared designs. That gives it a very uniform housing stock: streets of estate houses and low-rise flats around Mark Hall, Netteswell, Potter Street and Staple Tye, all built within a few years of each other. Its first tower block, The Lawn in Mark Hall, is often described as Britain’s first residential tower block.

When the pipes all age together

Because so many homes were built at the same time, the same parts tend to fail along whole streets: original pipework and joints reaching the end of their lives, cylinders weeping, and combis fitted onto pipes sized for an older gravity system. If a neighbour has had a problem, yours may not be far behind.

Old Harlow and Church Langley

Old Harlow, around the High Street and Churchgate Street, has older period houses with their own quirks. Church Langley, built from the 1990s, is the opposite: modern combis and pressurised systems, with plastic pipe and push-fit joints that can be pulled apart by movement.

Hard water

The water here is hard, like most water in the south-east, and scale is a factor in failing immersion heaters, weak combis and seized shower valves across the town.

Rate and nearby

£110 for the first hour, £45 per half hour after, plus parts, with no call-out fee. We also cover Old Harlow, Church Langley and Potter Street, and nearby Hertford and Brentwood.