Emergency Plumber in Potters Bar
In Potters Bar the leak is often outside the house: under a long drive, in a garage or at an outside tap. When it isn’t, it is usually a loft tank or a cylinder. Either way, ring 07861 933265. We answer at any hour, there is no call-out fee, and we usually reach EN6 within 60 minutes.
Turning it off: The main stopcock is usually under the kitchen sink or in the garage, and there is an outside stop valve near the boundary. Outbuildings may have their own valves. Keep away from electrics near the water. If you can smell gas, phone 0800 111 999 at once.
Generous plots
Potters Bar is mostly interwar and post-war semis and detached houses on large plots, with bigger properties towards Little Heath and Northaw. That means long buried supply pipes, garages and garden taps, and in a hard winter the frozen pipes and hidden leaks here tend to be outside rather than in.
Inside the house
Indoors, many homes still have a loft tank and a copper cylinder; others have a combi fitted onto pipework meant for a gravity system, with weak flow upstairs as the result. The water is hard, as most water in the south-east is, so scale builds in cylinders and heat exchangers.
Drains
Older gardens near Oakmere Park still have clay drains, and tree roots find the joints. Newer homes around Darkes Lane and the station have modern drains but shared runs in some developments.
Charges and nearby
£110 for the first hour, £45 per half hour after, plus parts; no call-out fee. We also cover Little Heath and Northaw, and nearby Barnet, Enfield and Borehamwood.
Potters Bar at a glance
- Postcodes we cover
- EN6
- Streets we often visit
- Darkes Lane
- High Street
- Mutton Lane
- Southgate Road
- Hatfield Road
- Church Road
- The Walk
- Mount Grace Road
- Heath Road
- Cranborne Road
- Quakers Lane
- Byng Drive
- Billy Lows Lane
- Hawkshead Road
- Osborne Road
- Local landmarks
- Darkes Lane
- Potters Bar station
- Oakmere Park
- Little Heath
- Northaw Great Wood
Questions people ask
Our lawn has a soggy patch and the meter keeps spinning. What is going on?
Very likely a leak on the buried supply pipe between your boundary and the house, which is the owner's to repair. On Potters Bar's larger plots that pipe can be long. Turn off every tap; if the meter still moves, call us to trace the leak before it does more damage.
How do we protect the pipes in our detached garage?
Lag every pipe, put a frost thermostat on any heater instead of a timer, and fit an indoor valve so the garage supply can be shut and drained before a cold spell.
Our combi was fitted where the old cylinder was and the shower is weak. Why?
The pipes from the old gravity system are often narrower than a combi needs, so flow at the far end of the house suffers. Scale in the combi and the shower valve adds to it.
What will you charge in Potters Bar?
Coming out is free. Then it is £110 for the first hour and £45 for each further half hour, plus parts, at any hour.
Sources
- Hard water, Thames Water