Emergency Plumber in Southgate

If water is coming through a bedroom ceiling from the loft, or the hot water has gone in a Southgate semi, ring 07861 933265. We take calls round the clock, there is no call-out charge, and N14 is usually reached within 60 minutes.

While you wait: Turn the water off at the stopcock, normally under the kitchen sink or the stairs. If the trouble is in the loft, the small valve on the pipe feeding the tank stops it filling. Keep electrics away from the water. Gas smell? Phone 0800 111 999 before anything else.

A 1930s suburb

Southgate stayed a village around its green until the Piccadilly line arrived in 1933, with the round station that still sits at the centre. Within a few years the surrounding estates were covered with semis and detached houses, and that 1930s housing is still most of N14. Many have the original cold tank in the loft and copper cylinder in the airing cupboard; others had a combi fitted to the old pipework.

What goes wrong in those houses

Float valves in loft tanks stick and send water out of the overflow, or into the ceiling. Cylinders lose their hot water early because hard water coats the coil and the immersion element, and Thames Water says all the water in its region is hard. Combis fed by narrow old pipes give weak showers upstairs. None of these needs a whole new system.

Gardens, trees and drains

Plots here are generous and the trees are mature, so drains run a long way through clay to the road. Roots get into the joints, and a drain that blocks every few months is often cracked. A camera survey settles it.

Around the Green

The oldest houses and cottages near Southgate Green are in a conservation area and can still have lead on the supply. Repairs there are done inside where possible.

Cost and nearby

£110 for the first hour, £45 for each half hour after, parts on top, no call-out charge. We also work across Oakwood and Winchmore Hill, and in Palmers Green, Enfield and Barnet.