Emergency Plumber Hornchurch
Plumbing isn’t one of those things you think about much during the day, except maybe whether you need to upgrade to a bathroom sink with nicer taps or whether it’s time to install fixtures that reduce water flow so you can do your bit for the environment. If this is the case, then plumbing is working as it should be and all is well.
But there are times when the plumbing isn’t behaving itself. Then you’ve got problems and you’re going to need the help of a proper trained plumber – right now.
Situations When An Emergency Plumber Is Needed
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar?
- A water main in your Hornchurch home has burst somewhere in one of the walls or somewhere like that. Water is spraying out all over the place. If you’re lucky, it’s spraying all over the areas that can handle water like the bathroom. If you’re unlucky, the water is spraying over the carpeted areas. Even if you have got the lucky situation, your friendly local emergency plumber will need to come in and fix the situation so that (a) the water doesn’t spread to the carpeted areas and (b) if you’ve managed to find the tap to turn the water off at the mains, you can turn it back on again soon so that people can wash their hands and use the loo, etc.
- You go to flush the toilet but as the water whooshes into the bowl, it doesn’t drive the water and… whatever it is you’re flushing… down the bend and into the sewer. Instead, the water level in the toilet bowl rises ominously higher and higher, with the paper and everything else circling like a shark in a rising tide until the worst happens and (ewwww!) the whole disgusting lot spills over onto the bathroom floor. This is horrible enough when it happens in a domestic setting (i.e. at home) but it’s even worse when it happens at an office or (worse still) at a retail outlet, school, café or other place where lots of people gather. Even if you don’t have a full-on overflow from the toilet bowl, a backed up toilet is a serious plumbing problem.
- You go to turn the tap on but nothing comes out. The local council hasn’t warned you of any outages and there’s no sign online (or down the street if you take a quick look) that a council water main has burst. Perhaps it’s freezing cold outside (literally) and there’s a chance that the pipes have frozen… and that they’ve burst with the water expanding as it turns to ice.
- You have just finished washing the dishes by hand or washing your hair in the sink, but when you go to pull the plug, the water doesn’t swirl down the plughole the way it’s supposed to but seeps away very, very slowly. All you can hear is a faint dripping somewhere – a sure sign that something is blocking the drain leading from your sink (we’ll assume that you’ve already tried checking the trap in the plughole for hairs and other debris that might be in the way.
- You’re taking a shower but once you stop shampooing your hair and singing along to your waterproof speaker, you realise that you are not just having a shower but your feet are having a soak because the water has risen over your ankles rather than draining away. While this might be great for pedicure purposes, it’s not so good from a plumbing perspective. Once more, checking the trap over the plughole doesn’t reveal any obvious blockages and it’s obvious that the blocked drain is caused by something further down.
- You are all covered with scented lather in the shower and you’re hitting the high notes but the water suddenly runs cold. You’re the only person who’s used the shower for a while, so it’s not that someone else has used all the hot water, and whatever heats your water (be it an Aga with a water jacket or an electrical heating element) is working the way it ought to.
- You’re a librarian at the public library and one of the patrons comes up and lets you know that there’s a downpipe missing from one of the sinks in the toilets – a disgruntled delinquent has struck again by stealing the pipes and you need to replace that pipe right away so other patrons can wash their hands and be hygienic.
Your Local Hornchurch Emergency Plumber
With ABC Ltd., that’s exactly what you get. You’ll get a plumber who’s experienced and highly trained… and who isn’t squeamish about that backed up toilet (you don’t go through the process of training to be a master plumber like us unless you aren’t squeamish about things like a bit of poo). You’ll get someone local who’s prompt and who will come around at any time that you need, even if this is in the evenings or on the weekend. We’ll fix that pipe, unblock the drain and unclog that overflowing toilet as soon as we possibly can.
As well as handling your Hornchurch plumbing emergencies, we can also cater to your other plumbing needs – the sort that you have to book in for and can plan ahead of time, such as installing new bathtubs, showers, taps and so forth. However, we specialise in emergency plumbing, racing to homes and businesses all through Hornchurch to save the day.
What To Do In Case Of A Plumbing Emergency
Got a plumbing emergency in your Hornchurch home or business? The first thing you need to do is to call ABC Ltd.’s emergency plumbers in Hornchurch to sort the problem out RIGHT AWAY. Our contact details are at the bottom of the page, so don’t waste any more time.
What can you do while you’re waiting for your plumbing superhero to turn up? Here are a few things that can help minimise the amount of damage to the furnishings in your home or business.
- Turn off the tap or any other source of water if possible. This may mean switching the dishwasher or the washing machine off at the wall so it doesn’t keep pumping out more water to add to the problem. Turn the water off at the mains in the case of a leak.
- Make sure all electrical cords are out of the water. Switch your power mains off if water has already reached them, remove the cord from the water, then switch the power back on.
- Barricade off your carpeted areas with as many thick towels as you possibly can to stop water flooding onto them.
- If a carpet is already flooded, then use absorbent material to soak up as much as you can.
- In an office or building that’s used by lots of people, get out the “Out of Order” and other warning signs so that nobody tries to use that particular toilet a second time and/or slips on wet tiles.
- Take photos of any damage so that you can put in an insurance claim if you’re covered for this sort of thing.
- If you’re in a rental property, contact your landlord to inform him/her about the problem… and let him or her know that there’s an emergency plumber on the way.