Areas covered
Plumbing and heating across Birmingham and beyond
Birmingham first, and then every town within about twenty miles of the city centre. Pick a town below to see it on the map.
Households from Sutton Park to Bournville have had the same visit
Birmingham
A city of very different houses
Birmingham is not one kind of housing. Victorian back-to-backs and long terraces sit a few streets from 1930s semis, post-war estates and glass-fronted apartments. Harborne still has a distinctly Victorian feel; Edgbaston is leafy with large detached houses; Selly Oak mixes old industrial streets with rows of student lets; Nechells and Newtown have the 1960s tower blocks. Each of those changes what a plumbing job actually involves.
In an older terrace in Moseley or Kings Heath the pipework may be a patchwork of lead, iron, copper and plastic from a century of alterations, and the stopcock is often buried under the front step. In a 1930s semi in Hall Green the original gravity heating has usually been converted to a combi at some point, sometimes well and sometimes not. In a block, the water supply, the soil stack and even the heating can be shared, which means checking who owns which pipe before anything is cut.
What we are called out for most
Across the city the jobs are much the same: leaks and urgent plumbing, blocked sinks and gullies, boilers that lose pressure or show a fault code, radiators cold at the bottom, and landlords needing their yearly gas checks before a new tenancy. The home page sets out everything that is covered.
Birmingham's water comes mainly from the Elan Valley reservoirs in mid Wales and is soft, so the heavy limescale that clogs boilers and showers in hard-water areas is less of a problem in the city itself. Some of the towns further out are supplied from harder groundwater, which matters when a new boiler or unvented cylinder is being chosen, and we will say so if it applies to you.
How the area is covered
Jobs are planned by area so travel time does not eat into the work. Straightforward repairs can usually be priced from your description; bigger jobs like a new bathroom or a heating system get a visit first. Either way, you get the price in writing before anything starts.
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Towns around Birmingham
63 more towns, closest first
Select a town to move the map above to it. Every one is served the same way as the city.
5 to 10 miles
10 to 15 miles
Not sure if your street is covered?
Put your postcode into Quick Quote Online and you will hear back with an answer and a written price.
Gallery
Typical jobs across the city and the towns
Boilers, cylinders, radiators, pipework and bathrooms. Tap any photo to see it larger.
Questions
Questions about where we work
Is there a call-out difference for towns further out?
The price is worked out from the job itself: what is wrong, the parts it needs and how long it will take. Travel is part of that, and it is written into the price you receive before any work starts, so there are no surprises on the day.
Do you cover towns outside the West Midlands county?
Yes. The list on this page runs out to about twenty miles from the city centre, which takes in towns in Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire such as Lichfield, Tamworth, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Kidderminster and Warwick.
My town is not listed. Can you still help?
Possibly. The list covers the towns we are asked about most, not every village in between. Put your postcode in Quick Quote Online and we will tell you straight away whether it is covered.
Do you work in flats and tower blocks?
Yes, including high-rise blocks with shared risers and communal drainage. Some work in blocks needs the building manager or housing provider to agree access to shared pipework first, and we can talk that through with you.
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Tell us where you are and what needs doing
A line or two is plenty: what has gone wrong or what you want fitted, the boiler make if it is heating, and roughly where in the house.
- A written price before any work starts
- Plumbing, heating, drains and bathrooms from one place
- Birmingham and the towns around it