Plumber in Wallington

Wallington town centre sits around the station and the green. Beddington is to the north, towards Beddington Park. Hackbridge is to the north-west, between Wallington and Mitcham. Carshalton (SM5) and Sutton are on the same round. Croydon begins on the eastern side and is in the London Borough of Croydon, still south London. The wider list, including the towns that really are in Surrey, is on areas we cover.

Around the station and Wallington Green the houses are largely Victorian and Edwardian: terraces, flats over shops, and homes that have been split or extended. Pipework has often been added to over the years. Slow leaks on old joints, tired cistern valves and taps that will not shut off are everyday calls. A bathroom squeezed into a small back room needs the wastes looked at properly, not just a new suite.

Woodcote, to the south, is known for larger houses. They use more hot water, often have more than one bathroom, and are more likely to have a cylinder and a loft tank. A failed cylinder or a tank overflowing into the loft is a different visit from a combi fault in a flat. Roundshaw, built in the 1960s on the old Croydon Airport land, was not built like those Victorian streets, and much of the original heating has been replaced since. We look at what is there rather than assuming.

SM6 has the same hard water as the rest of Sutton. Scale furs up showers, taps and the hot-water side of a boiler. A combi that used to run a bath and now struggles with a shower is a familiar call, as is a radiator cold at the bottom, which is usually sludge.

We repair those faults and service gas boilers under Gas Safe registration 618835. If water is running and you can reach the stopcock, turn it off while you wait. If you smell gas, leave the building and call the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999.

Bathrooms run from a terrace cloakroom to a larger Woodcote refit. We quote after seeing the room, because the pipe runs differ every time. The call-out price we publish is on the prices page. Booked work is Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and Saturday, 9am to 1pm. A 24-hour emergency call-out covers serious leaks and lost heating. Planned bathroom work waits for a weekday.

A heat pump can suit a larger Wallington or Woodcote house with space for a cylinder and an outdoor unit. It is a hard job to justify in a flat over a shop. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme can contribute £7,500 towards an air source heat pump, and nothing towards a gas boiler. MTEX is qualified to install air source heat pumps and is not MCS-certified. An MCS umbrella scheme handles the certification and the paperwork. The conditions are on the Boiler Upgrade Scheme page.