Emergency Plumber in Edinburgh

This page is for water where it should not be, right now. Burst and split pipes, a joint that has let go under a floor, water coming through a ceiling, a cylinder or tank that has failed, a stopcock that will not close, and total loss of heat or hot water in the middle of winter. Planned work — a new shower, a replacement toilet, an outside tap — sits on plumbing repairs and installation instead, which keeps the emergency line clear for the jobs that cannot wait.

Leaks are the other half of it, and finding one is usually harder than fixing it. Water travels: a stain on a Marchmont ceiling can be coming from a joint two rooms away, and in a tenement it may not even be coming from your flat. Tracing means working back from where the water is showing to where it is actually escaping — under floors, behind lath and plaster, inside stone walls, in the shared risers — before anything gets lifted or cut. That order matters, because the alternative is opening up three ceilings to find one olive.

Outdoor and external pipework is its own seasonal problem here. Outside taps, exposed supply runs and boiler condensate pipes on a north-facing rear elevation are the first things to freeze, and a frozen pipe usually announces itself as a burst when it thaws rather than while it is frozen. If you can, know where your stopcock is before you need it — in a tenement flat it is often under the kitchen sink or in the hall cupboard, and occasionally in the common stair, which is exactly the sort of thing nobody wants to discover at two in the morning.