Plumber in Croydon
Plumbers in Croydon for boiler repair, drain unblocking and emergency call-outs across the CR postcodes. We answer around the clock.
Working in Croydon
Croydon is one of the largest boroughs in London by population, and the housing reflects that — town-centre towers and new conversions sit a mile from streets of Victorian terraces and interwar semis. It is a core patch for us rather than a long-distance add-on.
Call or WhatsApp with the address and what has failed. Tell us the fault code if the boiler is showing one, because it usually tells us which parts to put on the van before we set off.
Boiler repair in Croydon
No heat or hot water in a Croydon flat or house is a same-day job wherever we can make it one. We diagnose on site and give you the repair-or-replace answer honestly before any parts go in. Pressure loss, ignition lockouts and frozen condensate pipes are the three we see most through winter.
Drain unblocking in Croydon
Kitchen waste and wet wipes account for most domestic blockages here. In the terraced streets the drainage outside is often original clay, where a displaced joint or root ingress will catch everything passing — that is the profile of a drain that blocks every few months, and it is cheaper to put a camera down once than to clear it repeatedly.
Gas safety certificates in Croydon
Croydon has a large private rented sector, and every let property with a gas appliance needs a CP12 every twelve months. We do single flats and portfolios, and the record comes back to you the same day so you can meet the 28-day duty to your tenant.
24 hour plumber in Croydon
The 24 hour line is the same number. Burst pipes, boiler lockouts and blocked toilets do not keep office hours, and a single-bathroom flat with a blocked toilet is not something that waits until Monday.
Property and pipework in Croydon
The borough splits into three kinds of plumbing job. The Victorian and Edwardian terraces through Addiscombe, South Croydon and Thornton Heath tend to have original clay drainage outside and pipework that has been extended piecemeal over a century, so blockages and buried leaks are common. The interwar semis around Shirley and Selhurst are usually on system boilers with cylinders. The town centre is flats — a mix of 1960s blocks and recent office-to-residential conversions — where the plumbing is shared, access is controlled, and a blockage in one property is rarely only that property's problem.
London is a hard water region. Thames Water states that all the water in its region is hard, and its own scale puts 200 to 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate in the hard band with anything above 300 classed as very hard. In practice that means scale on heat exchangers, in cylinders and inside thermostatic shower cartridges, which is why annual servicing earns its keep here more than it would in a soft water area.
Where we work in Croydon
Regular call-outs around East Croydon, West Croydon, Addiscombe, Shirley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath, Selhurst, Waddon, Norbury, Purley Way. CR0, CR2 and CR7 are the postcodes we are in most often.
Neighbourhoods
We attend jobs around Central Croydon, Addiscombe, Shirley, South Croydon, Thornton Heath.
See job photos or request a visit. Coverage across Greater London and north Surrey, including Croydon, Bromley, Sutton, Orpington and Wimbledon.
Croydon questions
Need an emergency plumber?
Burst pipes, boiler breakdowns and blocked drains across Greater London. We aim to be with you within 60 minutes.