Bristol Plumber Now

If you are having a plumbing installation such as a new boiler or bathroom fitted by Bristol Plumber Now plumbers, we will advise on the most economic materials to use. Often it comes down t a choice of most of the installation being run in copper or plastic. Bristol Plumbers are aware that copper theft is now becoming extremely common in the Bristol & Somerset area. People are breaking into houses solely to pinch the copper pipe. This results in some nasty leaks and damage to the house. Our plumbers in Bristol now recommend to all our customers to use plastic pipe wherever possible. And some of our landlords are even putting notices on the boilers in their rental properties advising that the property is fitted out with plastic pipe not copper.

Bristol Plumber Now has several roving  Emergency Plumbers in Bristol. Leaking pipes are the most common reason for our plumbers to be called out. Usually the problem is wear and tear of components, a catastrophe such as a nail through a pipe event and sometimes its actually the customers’ fault.

Our plumber came across just such an occurrence last thursday when we were called to a flooded out basement flat. The owner of the flat had tried to install a washing machine cold water feed. Unfortunately they were not fully trained in using plastic barrier pipes, they had joined a standard copper 15mm pipe to a 2m length of plastic barrier pipe but had failed to tighten the collar on the plastic to copper joint. Result 3-days later a flooded out basement.

Happily our plumber was a local plumber and got to the problem quickly. He also did a [...]