Emergency Plumber in Hornsey
Water through the kitchen ceiling under a back-addition bathroom, or a blocked drain behind a terrace off Tottenham Lane? Call 07861 933265. We answer at any hour, there is no call-out fee, and we usually reach Hornsey within 60 minutes.
Turning off: The stopcock is usually under the kitchen sink, which in many Hornsey terraces is at the back of the house, or under a board inside the front door. In a flat, check the kitchen and hall cupboards. Turn off electrics near the leak if safe. Gas smell: ring 0800 111 999 first.
Terraces with back additions
Hornsey grew from a village around St Mary’s church after its station opened in 1850, and most of it filled with late Victorian and Edwardian terraces. The typical house has a narrow back addition with the kitchen on the ground floor and the bathroom above it. That layout means long supply and waste pipes from the street to the back of the house, a bathroom directly over the kitchen, and a soil pipe running down the back wall.
What that leads to
When a bath or shower seal fails upstairs, the kitchen ceiling is the first to know. Long waste runs from the back of the house block more easily. And by the time the water reaches the back bathroom, old narrow pipes and scale can leave the shower weak. Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard.
Newer flats
Council housing and newer blocks on former industrial land near the railway and the New River add shared risers and managing agents to the picture. A leak from another flat needs them as well as a plumber.
Clay ground
The area sits on heavy clay in a low valley, and old clay drains under the back gardens move and let roots in. Shared drains running behind several terraces are common, and when they block, more than one house is affected.
Rate and nearby
£110 for the first hour and £45 per half hour after it, plus parts. No call-out fee. We also cover Hornsey Vale and Harringay, and nearby Crouch End, Wood Green and Muswell Hill.
Hornsey at a glance
- Postcodes we cover
- N8
- Streets we often visit
- High Street
- Church Lane
- Priory Road
- Priory Avenue
- Rectory Gardens
- Nightingale Lane
- Hornsey Park Road
- Campsbourne Road
- Hillfield Avenue
- Rathcoole Gardens
- North View Road
- Inderwick Road
- Ribblesdale Road
- Linzee Road
- Cross Lane
- Local landmarks
- St Mary's Tower
- Priory Park
- Hornsey High Street
- Hornsey station
- New River
- Hornsey Water Treatment Works
Questions people ask
Our bathroom is at the back of the house and the water pressure there is poor. Why?
In a Hornsey terrace with a back addition, the bathroom is often the furthest point from where the supply enters at the front. Long, narrow pipes, old valves and scale all reduce flow by the time water gets there. A partly closed stopcock is worth checking first.
Water is coming through the kitchen ceiling under the bathroom. What do I do?
Turn off the water, stop using the bath and shower, and switch off any light in the wet ceiling. In a back addition the bathroom usually sits right above the kitchen, so a failed bath seal, shower tray or waste joint shows up there quickly. Call us and we will find which it is.
Who is responsible for the water pipe under our front path?
The supply pipe from your boundary into the house is the homeowner's. Thames Water looks after the pipe from the main to the boundary. If it is shared with next door, Thames Water says the neighbours share responsibility for the shared part.
How much is an emergency plumber in Hornsey?
No call-out fee. It is £110 for the first hour and £45 for each half hour after, plus parts, at any hour.
Sources
- Pipe responsibility, Thames Water
- Hard water, Thames Water