Emergency Plumber in Muswell Hill
Water through a ceiling in an Edwardian conversion off Queens Avenue, or a drain backing up in a garden near Highgate Wood? Call 07861 933265. We answer at any hour, charge no call-out fee and usually reach N10 within 60 minutes.
Stopping a leak: Look under the kitchen sink or under the floor just inside the front door. In a converted house there may be a single shared valve in the hall or the ground-floor flat. Turn off electrics near the water if it is safe to reach them. Gas: 0800 111 999 first.
An Edwardian suburb, now in flats
Muswell Hill was built almost all at once around the turn of the twentieth century, as large terraces and semis along wide, tree-lined avenues. Many of those houses are now two or three flats. The new bathrooms join a soil stack and clay drain laid for one family, and the most common call is water through a ceiling from a bathroom upstairs, usually a shower tray or bath seal that has failed.
Trees, clay and drains
The suburb sits high on clay between Highgate Wood, Queen’s Wood and Alexandra Palace. Mature trees line most streets, and their roots find any gap in an old clay drain. Leaves in autumn fill gullies and gutters. Inside your boundary, a drain serving only your house is yours; Thames Water says sewers shared with neighbours are its responsibility, even under gardens.
Above the Broadway
The flats above the shops on the Broadway and Fortis Green Road share drainage with the cafés and shops below. Fat from a commercial kitchen in a shared drain is a common reason a flat’s sink or toilet backs up.
Hard water
Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard, and in Muswell Hill’s older cylinders and shower valves that means scale. Showers that run hot and cold, and cylinders that run out sooner than they used to, are usually signs of it.
Rate and nearby
£110 for the first hour, £45 per half hour after it, plus parts. No call-out fee. We also cover Fortis Green and Cranley Gardens, and nearby Crouch End, Highgate and Wood Green.
Muswell Hill at a glance
- Postcodes we cover
- N10
- Streets we often visit
- Muswell Hill Broadway
- Fortis Green Road
- Fortis Green
- Colney Hatch Lane
- Muswell Hill Road
- Alexandra Park Road
- Cranley Gardens
- Queens Avenue
- Princes Avenue
- Duke's Avenue
- Onslow Gardens
- Hillfield Park
- Creighton Avenue
- Woodland Rise
- Rookfield Avenue
- Local landmarks
- Muswell Hill Broadway
- Alexandra Palace
- Highgate Wood
- Queen's Wood
- Coldfall Wood
- Rookfield Estate
Questions people ask
Our garden drain blocks every autumn. Why?
Muswell Hill's big street trees and the woods nearby drop a lot of leaves into gullies and gutters in autumn, and roots work their way into old clay drain joints all year. A drain that blocks at the same time every year is often a mix of both. A camera survey shows whether roots have got in.
The flat below says our bathroom is leaking into their ceiling. What should we do?
Stop using the bath or shower straight away, as failed seals and shower trays only leak when water runs. Look for a gap in the silicone, a cracked tray or a loose waste under the bath. If you cannot see it, we can find it and fix it, and the water will usually stop as soon as the fitting is out of use.
Is there a stopcock in each flat in a Muswell Hill conversion?
Not always. Edwardian houses converted long ago sometimes have only one stopcock, in the ground-floor flat or the hall. Ask your neighbours or freeholder where it is, and consider having a separate valve fitted for your flat.
What are your charges in Muswell Hill?
No call-out fee. £110 for the first hour, then £45 for each half hour, plus parts, day or night.
Sources
- Sewer pipe responsibility, Thames Water
- Hard water, Thames Water