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T.A. & S.J. Howard

T.A. & S.J. Howard

Howard are a well-known and respected family business providing a quality Lincolnshire plumbing service to all those in Lincoln and the 25 miles surrounding it. Operating since 1979 we are plumbers you can trust to deliver an efficient and effective service at a fair price. Qualified and registered with IPHE (Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering) and CORGI, approved by Energy Efficiency and Anglian Water. less

Wessex Plumbing & Heating Services

Wessex Plumbing & Heating Services

Wessex Plumbing and Heating Services Ltd is a well established company based in Weymouth Dorset, covering the Southwest of England. The company was set up with the intention of meeting and exceeding our clients expectations by delivering the highest quality of service at a reasonable price. We are passionate about what we do and apply the highest standards of service to every customer and project, regardless of budget. less

Hotworks Plumbing & Heating (Cumbria)

Hotworks Plumbing & Heating (Cumbria)

Plumbers and Gas Heating Engineers in Carlisle Cumbria. We are Gas Safe registered plumbers providing an honest, trustworthy and friendly service with top quality workmanship. Whether you need a tap replacing, boiler service, fire service, cooker service to a full bathroom or gas heating system installation we are here to look after your every plumbing and heating requirement. less

Macdonald Plumbing, Heating & Gas

Macdonald Plumbing, Heating & Gas

Macdonald Plumbing is the simple answer to all your domestic plumbing, gas and heating, repair and installation needs. We can also help with installations and repairs for local businesses. We are a reliable and well-known family business operating in Teddington and the surrounding areas. We provide a professional, efficient and friendly service and because we are local, we can be with you in no time, and we'll always be on-time. less

S S L Heating & Plumbing

S S L Heating & Plumbing

If you need a plumber, you've come to the right place. SSL Heating & Plumbing based in Bolton are ready to respond to all your emergency call outs 24 hours, 7 days a week. No job is either too big or too small, from fixing a leaking tap to installing luxury bathrooms, at SSL Heating & Plumbing we strive to complete all our works on time with customer satisfaction held as our number one priority. We offer a professional and reliable service that offers our customers value for money. less

Watford Plumbers & Heating

Watford Plumbers & Heating

Watford Plumbers is a full service plumbing and heating company specializing in repair and installation with evening appointments when necessary. Watford plumbers serves all of north and west London including St. Albans, Kings langley and Hemel Hempstead. We provide our customers with trained professional technicians at reasonable rates. less

Plumber Ladbroke Grove

Plumber Ladbroke Grove

Located in the Queens Park area of Ladbroke Grove, Ladbroke Plumbers of greater London, postcode W10 are available to handle all of your plumbing needs. Whether you need commercial or industrial plumbing work or want to provide service or installation of a boiler system, we have the trained and qualified engineers that can handle any job you need done. It’s important to us to provide the kind of service that makes customers call us back whenever they have plumbing needs so we make sure to keep a full staff of highly qualified and completely trained plumbers on staff to be available any time of the day or night. less

KF Solutions

KF Solutions

KF Solutions provide a fully qualified plumber in Darwen, Blackburn, Bolton and the Lancashire area. We offer free estimates with no hidden costs, and stock a wide range of parts to avoid waiting time to ensure a fast professional speedy service. Plumbing is more than just pipes, here are some of the common services we provide. KF Solutions provide a professional tiler in Darwen, Blackburn Bolton and the Lancashire area. We offer free estimates with no hidden costs, and stock a wide range of parts to avoid waiting time to ensure a professional service. less

Wadhams Plumbing & Heating

Wadhams Plumbing & Heating

Based within the Medway towns we are a fully qualified, fully insured and gas safe registered company supplying unparalleled service in both plumbing and heating. We pride ourselves on our politeness and leaving your house as clean and tidy as it was when we arrived. Specialising in boiler installations, heating systems and all manor of gas works within the Medway towns and surrounding areas. less

Derry Paul

Derry Paul

Paul Derry founded his plumbing and heating firm in 1967. It is a family run business, employing local people to cater for all your Plumbing and Heating needs. Be it a leaking tap or a large installation, Paul Derry Plumbing & Heating Engineers have the expertise to cater for your every requirement. Due to our on going training the employees and owners follow a strict regime of updates to keep abreast of the latest industrial and legal developments and requirements. less

All Plumbing Reading

All Plumbing Reading

Don't let that annoying leak affect the running of your home. Based in Reading, Berkshire, All Plumbing Services Ltd employ a team of fast and reliable emergency plumbers who offer a wide range of repair and replacement services. Fast and reliable, our rapid-response plumbers are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Serving domestic, commercial, and industrial clients, we provide same-day replacements. Our engineers are guaranteed to be with you in the quickest time possible to resolve all your plumbing, heating or gas emergencies. less

M & H Plumbing

M & H Plumbing

If you require cost effective, reliable heating and plumbing engineers then look no further. Operating throughout the Sussex & Kent area we cater to all domestic and business client's central heating systems, gas, oil or LPG services and plumbing requirements. We have the knowledge and expertise needed to ensure that you receive nothing but the best service. less

Alliance Heating&Plumbing

Alliance Heating&Plumbing

Harlow, Essex, East England, CM18 7SU

We are gas safe registered plumbers with offices in Harlow. We have built upon good values and a reputation to carry out work to very high standards whilst giving excellent value for money. We provide reliable and trustworthy plumbing and heating services throughout Essex. Contact us for a professional service that won't let you down. We have a wealth of experience within the plumbing and heating industry with previous employment with British Gas, East Thames Housing, and Barratt Homes. less

M & R Plumbing & Heating

M & R Plumbing & Heating

Established in 1997, M&R Plumbing and Heating Ltd provide a complete range of domestic and commercial gas, heating and plumbing services, specialsing in alternative/renewable energy solutions. We are an accredited Worcester Bosch installer, and all our engineers are Gas Safe and Corgi registered. As a family business, we pride ourselves on our high standard of workmanship and excellent aftercare service, which has secured us a large amount of repeat business over the years. less

Watermark Plumbing Supplies

Watermark Plumbing Supplies

The owners Glenn Moxon, John Helliwell and Mick Dodson have over 70 years of combined experience in the trade and strongly believe in the importance of customer satisfaction and quality of service. Our prices are competitive against the leading Merchants and Bathroom Studios alike. Our well-equipped trade counters are manned by friendly, experienced and efficient staff who are only too pleased to help, offering advice on any of our products. less

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A plumbing system of your home is a complex system of all sorts of pipes, fixtures, and at least a hundred other little details and things you have no idea of. In an ideal world, all these little components will work together to provide your household with clean water, get rid of wastes in a safe way, and do more for the comfort of your home. However, such ideal worlds do not exist so often and many households will stumble with a piping problem that requires the urgent help of a plumber soon or later. Your home’s plumbing system is closely relevant to not just the safety of your home, but also public safety. Therefore, plumbing systems are designed so they are regulated by building codes. Logically, the local plumber you will call, when you need some help with a leak or for draining will be regulated by authority too. Of course, when looking for the right plumber to do the job for you, you want to look for a plumber who is properly regulated and meets the requirements of the authorities, a plumber, who is licensed, credentialed, certified to ensure proper workmanship. Also, a plumber, who is professional, reliable, comes on time and deals with the issue in a timely manner. However, how to find such plumber, where to look for them? Maybe this article will help you.

What the right plumber should do is doing the job properly, safely, relatively affordable so the project does not become a nightmare, which will cost a lot of money, energy, nerves, time. Once you manage to find the right plumber, keep their contact details safe and always on hand, because you have just tackled a challenge you don’t want to go through again. How to find the right plumber?

What Makes a Good Plumber?

It is needless to say that a good plumber should be a professional with experience, expertise, knowledge, and understanding of what they are doing and how they are doing it. A good plumber should also be reliable, come on time, do their job on time, don’t use excuses. A good plumber will have high-quality equipment and will also provide you with additional tips and recommendations and how to keep your household’s plumbing system intact. A good plumber needs to have several more things. However, these are things you will discover about a plumber once you hire them. But before you rush and hire a plumber, you want to be sure you are calling the right plumber for you and you don’t regret wasting time, money, and nerves later on. Here are some things to look up that will help you decide whether this plumber is a good plumber.

• License and qualification – If it is required in the country, a good plumber should have all the licenses, certificates, and qualifications needed to perform their job accurately.

• Insurance – It is highly recommended to find an insured plumber too. You may have a homeowner’s insurance that offers some level of protection already, however, it is very necessary to find a plumber with their own insurance too.

• Experience – When choosing a plumber to hire, you want to find out for how long they have been in the business and what is their experience. For most plumbers, it takes several years to become good plumbers with enough knowledge and understanding of all sorts of cases, projects, situations, issues and how to deal with them.

• Warranty – Choose to work with a plumber who can guarantee the quality of their work and the long-lasting effect of the results they achieve.

• Social Skills – This one may not be the most important one, but maybe you want to consider it. Think of the people factor when choosing a plumber and look for one who is trustworthy and will communicate with you in a clear and honest manner. You can tell a lot by someone’s communication skills for their work ethic and work habits too.

When Looking for a Plumber, Check Referrals

To have a reliable plumber referred to you by someone you know and trust is like hitting the jackpot, it will save so much time and energy for you. This is why you are recommended to ask for recommendations and referrals to a good plumber. Contact a friend, speak to a member of your family, talk to a colleague, it doesn’t matter who you speak to as long as you trust their opinion and they have recently hired a plumber for a project. This is a great way to collect opinions and end up with a list of potential plumbers to hire.

Look for a Plumber Online

If the search mentioned in the previous paragraph does not help you succeed in finding a good and reliable plumber, the online space always comes in handy. Make sure to have a look at online reviews and opinions shared for plumbers in your area by their clients and customers. This is often a good and effective way to find a good plumber. If not, at least you may find some not that positive experienced shared by people and learn more about a plumber you better avoid and not hire.

Choose a Plumber by Their Specialty

You may think that in order to find a good plumber you should just find one recommended by many people. However, finding a good plumber involves a lot more work. Choosing the right type of plumber is essential so you make sure you are wasting no time with someone, who is not focused on dealing with plumbing problems and issues with the one you are dealing with. There are different types of plumbers and here is a quick overview to help you find the right plumber.

Generally speaking, there are two main categories of plumbers. Under the first category falls each professional who is specialized in the installation of all plumbing for a building and home-remodeling projects. The second group of specialists are the ones, who are specialized in the repair and maintenance on existing plumbing systems. Make sure to choose the right type of specialist according to the project you have in line.

What makes a good plumber?
When looking for a plumber, check referrals
Look for a plumber online
Choose a plumber by their specialty