Services
Everything from a dripping tap to a full bathroom
Same team on a ten minute fix as on a fortnight’s work. Here’s what each job involves.
Services
Same team on a ten minute fix as on a fortnight’s work. Here’s what each job involves.
Full list
Emergency calls answered 24 hours a day across Castleford and the Five Towns.
In detail
Two things matter when a pipe splits: how quickly somebody picks up, and whether they know what to do when they get there. We do both.
Bursts, frozen pipes that let go in a thaw, leaks under sinks and baths, cisterns overflowing, seized stopcocks and heating gone in a cold snap. Made safe first, priced second, repaired third.
There is a lot of recent housing round Glasshoughton, Airedale and out towards Normanton, and a lot of first fix that was done at speed. None of the faults are dramatic. All of them are irritating.
Weak showers from restrictors nobody removed, pipework that knocks because it was never clipped, wastes run near enough level so baths drain slowly, radiators that never got balanced. We diagnose it, fix it, and put it in writing if you are still trying to get the developer to pay for it.
Gas Safe registered, so servicing, repairs, swaps and landlord certificates all stay in-house rather than getting passed into somebody else’s diary.
We fit combi, system and heat-only boilers, and unvented cylinders where a house genuinely needs stored hot water. Which is right depends on the property and how many taps want running at once, not on which is quickest for us to install.
Whole bathrooms from stripping the old suite out to the last bead of silicone, or a single shower changed on an afternoon. Both get the same standard of first fix.
Falls on the wastes, valve positions set before the wall closes, everything tested before it gets boarded and tiled. The part nobody sees and the only part that matters in five years.
The obvious ones are easy. The costly ones creep — a patch on a ceiling, a meter still ticking over with everything off, a cupboard that smells damp.
We trace it to where it’s actually coming from instead of opening the nearest bit of wall and hoping, then show you what has failed before putting it right.
New rads, vertical panels for narrow walls, column radiators for older houses, swaps in place and moves to somewhere more sensible.
If a room never warms up we’ll find out why properly — sludge, balancing, a stuck valve or a pump on its way out — rather than bleeding it and hoping.
FAQs
Small repairs usually yes. Bigger jobs like a boiler swap or a bathroom get booked in properly with materials ordered in advance, because turning up hopeful helps nobody.
Either. We can supply everything, or fit a suite, boiler or tap set you’ve bought. Say which when you ring so it’s priced correctly.
Yes — Gas Safe registered, so we carry out and certify landlord gas safety checks and can service the boiler at the same visit.
Happily. First fix, then back for second fix once tiling is done, with dates coordinated so nobody is stood about waiting.
Sometimes not — if they’re still responding, chase them. When they’ve stopped answering, which is usually why people ring us, we’ll fix it and give you it in writing so you can still pursue them.
Yes. Old parts and packaging go on the van, floors swept, anything we moved put back.
Get in touch
Ring and you get a plumber, not a script. Rather put it in writing? The form comes straight through and we come back the same day.
Ring us, any hour
01977 358049Emergency? Ring rather than email. It’s always quicker.
No obligation. We’ll tell you straight whether it’s a quick fix or a proper job.