where quality matters…
where quality matters…
Gas Safe registered, registration 657719. Weekday daytime work is £100 plus VAT an hour and there is no call-out fee. Call 020 8935 5206, or send a photo to 07521 853 507 on WhatsApp and we will tell you the likely cost and the next step.
Registration No. 657719 — ask to see the card at the door.
All work fully insured and guaranteed.
On completion — no call-out fee at any time.
The housing decides the calls. The flats bring pressure and combi faults, and leaks that reach a neighbour within the hour. The terraces bring imperial copper that needs the right adaptor, pipe runs buried under original floors, and stopcocks painted solid.
We cover East Dulwich and the SE22 postcode for plumbing, boiler and heating work. SE22 is our home ground, and it is Victorian terrace almost end to end. Gas Safe registered, registration 657719. Weekday work is £100 plus VAT an hour and there is no call-out fee. Call 020 8935 5206, or send a photo to 07521 853 507 on WhatsApp and we will tell you the likely cost and the next step.
East Dulwich is home ground for us. SE22 is Victorian terrace nearly end to end, and the houses repeat enough that we usually know where the pipes run before we arrive. If you need a plumber in East Dulwich, the quickest route is a photo on WhatsApp to 07521 853 507. We will come back with a fair idea of the likely cost before anything gets booked. Or ring 020 8935 5206 and talk it through.
The terraces set the pattern. Extensions and side-return kitchens leave long, awkward pipe runs on top of pipework that was never planned for them. Original imperial copper sits next to newer metric, and the joint between the two is where trouble starts if the wrong fitting was forced on. Pipes vanish under original floorboards, and stopcocks are often painted solid.
Most of it is small and urgent.
Taps that drip through the night. Toilets that keep filling and quietly run water down the pan. Leaks take some finding in a terrace, because the water often shows a room away from the fault. We also sort badly run waste pipes, including the old hoppers plenty of these houses still drain into, and we swap tired stopcocks and isolation valves so the water can actually be shut off next time.
A boiler that will not fire, keeps losing pressure, or is showing a fault code. We test the appliance before condemning any part, because a code tells us where the boiler noticed a problem, not which part has gone. An annual service is a fixed £100 plus VAT. We work on Vaillant, Worcester Bosch, Ideal, Baxi and Viessmann. On a service the analyser goes on the flue and the condensate trap gets cleaned out; a blocked one is behind a good share of winter lockouts. If you can smell gas, ring the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999 before you ring anyone.
Radiators cold at the bottom are nearly always sludge, not a broken boiler. We flush the system, and a magnetic filter supplied and fitted for £230 plus VAT keeps it from building up again. We also handle radiator valves, pumps, heating controls and unvented hot-water cylinders.
A few things we do not do, so nobody is left waiting: dedicated drain jetting and macerator work go to a specialist, hidden-leak tracing is an initial chargeable inspection rather than a guaranteed find, and we do not service heat pumps. If it is one of those, say so on the phone and we will point you the right way.
The work is led by Paul the Dulwich Plumber, a Gas Safe registered engineer with more than twenty years in the London trade, including time spent at British Gas. That shows most in the diagnosis: whether a fault is worth repairing, whether a boiler is worth keeping, and what a job will really cost before anyone starts.
One engineer turns up, tells you what is wrong in plain terms, and prices it before the work begins.
In an East Dulwich terrace the stopcock is usually under the kitchen sink, and usually painted solid. Find yours and check it turns before winter. Ten minutes now can save a ceiling later.
— Paul the Dulwich Plumber · Gas Safe Reg. 657719
Paul the Dulwich Plumber is Gas Safe registered (No. 657719): an NVQ-qualified plumber and gas engineer, with a BPEC unvented hot-water qualification and an NVQ Level 3 in electrical work, and more than twenty years in the London trade including previous British Gas experience.
Weekday daytime, eight to six, is £100 plus VAT an hour. The first hour is the minimum charge, then we bill in 15-minute steps. There is no separate call-out fee at any time.
Out of hours costs more, and it is published so you know before you book: weekday evenings £145 plus VAT, weekday overnight £180 plus VAT, weekend daytime £145 plus VAT, weekend evenings £180 plus VAT, weekend overnight £270 plus VAT. Bank holidays are charged at the weekend rate. Card on completion, no American Express, no cash. The full card is on the rates page.
The boiler in the photo replaced one that had been limping for a while, losing pressure and cutting out on cold mornings, with repair quotes starting to add up. Stripped down, the heat exchanger was on its way out, and at that point another patch stops making sense. A Vaillant ecoTEC went in up in the utility area, with new copper dropped down to the existing runs and clipped properly. We commissioned it, checked the gas rate, and ran the heating up to temperature before we left.
The cistern in the second photo had been boxed in for years, which is why nobody had looked at it. The toilet never stopped trickling into the pan and the flush had faded to half strength. With the access panel off, the cause was plain enough: the float valve and flush valve were caked in limescale, with verdigris creeping up the walls of the cistern. Both valves were replaced and the water level set properly. The trickle stopped and the flush came back.
Next door we cover Dulwich Village SE21, Peckham SE15 and Herne Hill SE24. The full South East London coverage area is here.
£100 plus VAT an hour on weekday daytimes, first hour minimum, then 15-minute steps. Evenings, overnights and weekends follow the published bands above. No call-out fee. A boiler service is £100 plus VAT; a CP12 is £100 plus VAT for up to two appliances.
No. You pay the published rate for the time worked, first hour minimum, card on completion.
Out of hours, yes, at the evening, overnight and weekend rates, subject to which engineers are free. If a pipe has burst, turn the water off at the stopcock first, then ring. The emergency page explains the bands. We do not put a guaranteed response time on it, because that would not be honest.
Your postcode, a line on what is happening, and a photo or short video if you can. For a boiler, the make, model and any fault code. WhatsApp 07521 853 507 and we can usually give you the likely job and cost before we set off.
Yes. Breakdowns, pressure loss, lockouts and fault codes, diagnosed properly rather than by swapping parts on a hunch. Common parts for the main makes ride on the van. More on the boiler repair page.
Registration 657719. Check it on the Gas Safe Register or ring them free on 0800 408 5500, and ask to see the card at the door.
Send your postcode and a photo on WhatsApp to 07521 853 507, or call 020 8935 5206. What happens next: you tell us the problem and postcode, we ask for a photo or video if it helps, we say whether it needs a visit, we explain the rate and the likely next step, and we book a time.
Dulwich Plumber is a local plumbing, heating and gas company, operating in South East London area.
Dulwich Builders Ltd trading as Dulwich Plumber
59 Malyons Road SE13 7XD London
Company registration number: 12110363
VAT no.: 400350856
Gas Safe Reg. No.: 657719
02089355206 or 07521853507
