Emergency Plumber in Tooting
Water through a ceiling off Mitcham Road, a burst under a Totterdown cottage floor or a blocked toilet in a flat above the Broadway? Call or WhatsApp 07861 933265 at any hour. There is no call-out charge, and we aim to be with you in SW17 within 60 minutes.
First, the water: In the cottages and terraces the stopcock is usually under the kitchen sink or below the floor by the front door. In a flat above a shop it can be in the stairwell or even in the shop. Turn off sockets and lights near the leak only if the consumer unit is dry and easy to reach.
Totterdown Fields: one estate, the same faults
Between 1901 and 1911 the London County Council built its first cottage estate here, some 1,244 houses around Totterdown Street, Ruislip Street and Lessingham Avenue. Rows of near-identical small houses mean near-identical plumbing: compact kitchens at the back, a bathroom squeezed in upstairs, and supply pipes laid at the same time. When one house on a row needs its old lead or iron supply renewed, the neighbours often do too.
Flats over the shops
Upper Tooting Road, Tooting High Street and Mitcham Road are lined with flats above shops and restaurants. Waste pipes from the flat often run through the ceiling of the business below, and a slow drip upstairs can surface as a stain over a counter. Restaurant kitchens also put a lot of fat into the shared drains at the back, which is why blocked gullies in the yards behind the High Street are a regular call.
Victorian terraces towards Tooting Bec
Between Trinity Road and Tooting Bec Common the streets are late Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many split into an upper and a lower flat. Loft conversions and new en-suites added on top of original pipework are where most of our leak calls start, usually from a shower tray or a push-fit joint under the floor.
Price
£110 covers the first hour, then £45 per half hour, plus parts. No call-out fee and no night surcharge. We also cover Balham, Earlsfield and Streatham, and for other urgent work see our emergency plumbing page.
Tooting at a glance
- Postcodes we cover
- SW17
- Streets we often visit
- Upper Tooting Road
- Tooting High Street
- Mitcham Road
- Garratt Lane
- Trinity Road
- Tooting Bec Road
- Franciscan Road
- Fishponds Road
- Totterdown Street
- Ruislip Street
- Lessingham Avenue
- Blackshaw Road
- Local landmarks
- Tooting Broadway
- Tooting Market and Broadway Market
- St George's Hospital
- Tooting Bec Lido
- Tooting Common
- Totterdown Fields
Questions people ask
We live on the Totterdown Fields estate. Is there anything special about the plumbing?
The cottages are small and very similar, so the same things tend to fail on neighbouring houses at about the same age. Many supplies run under the front gardens close to next door's, and some are still shared or still lead. The estate is a conservation area, so if outside pipes or the front garden need digging up, keep changes in keeping with the street.
Our water comes through a pipe shared with next door. Who pays if it leaks?
Thames Water says a shared supply pipe is the joint responsibility of the households it serves, while each house looks after the branch that feeds only it. We find where the leak is first, so you know whose section it is before anyone pays for digging.
I rent a flat above a shop on Upper Tooting Road. Who do I call when it leaks?
Tell your landlord, but deal with the water first. Turn off your stopcock if you can find it, warn the shop below and call us. We fix the leak and leave a short note of what failed for the landlord or agent.
What does an emergency plumber in Tooting cost?
There is no call-out charge. It is £110 for the first hour and £45 for every half hour after it, plus parts, the same at night and at weekends.
Sources
- Totterdown Fields, Wikipedia
- Lead pipe replacement, Thames Water