Plumber, electrician and gas engineer in Greenwich

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Plumbing, heating and electrical work in Greenwich

Greenwich covers almost every era of London housing. Around the park and in Blackheath there are Georgian and early Victorian houses, many of them listed, and Charlton and Plumstead have long Victorian terraces running up from the river. Eltham is mostly inter-war, with semis along the arterial roads and the Well Hall or Progress Estate, built in 1915 for Royal Arsenal workers and now a conservation area.

The newest parts of the borough are on the river. Greenwich Peninsula and Royal Arsenal Riverside in Woolwich are large new developments of apartment blocks, some created inside the old Arsenal buildings, and Kidbrooke Village has replaced the former Ferrier Estate. Thamesmead, shared with Bexley, was built from the late 1960s.

So a week of jobs in Greenwich can take us from a listed Georgian house where every pipe route needs care, to a riverside flat where the heating comes from a communal network and the engineer's job stops at the flat's own pipework.

Woolwich has changed fast since the Elizabeth line arrived, and many Victorian terraces there are being bought and renovated for the first time in decades. That usually means a full rewire, a new boiler, new radiators and a bathroom at once, and it is much easier and cheaper to plan them as one job than as four separate ones.

We cover the whole of Greenwich, including Greenwich, West Greenwich, Greenwich Peninsula, Blackheath, Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead, Shooters Hill, Eltham, Kidbrooke, Abbey Wood and Thamesmead. Postcodes: SE2, SE3, SE7, SE9, SE10, SE18, SE28.

Popular in Greenwich

Most booked services in Greenwich

• Plumbing repairs
• Boiler servicing and replacement
• Radiator valve replacement
• Rewiring
• Air conditioning installation
• Security lights

Local knowledge

Good to know before you book

Many new blocks in the borough, including much of Greenwich Peninsula, are heated from a communal heat network. Each flat has a heat interface unit instead of a boiler, and in most buildings that unit and the network are maintained by the network operator or the managing agent, not the resident. We repair taps, wastes, showers, radiators and electrics inside the flat, and we will tell you honestly when a fault belongs to the heat network.

Listed buildings in Greenwich and Blackheath need listed building consent for many changes that would be routine elsewhere, such as a new flue through a front wall or cutting into original panelling for pipes. We plan routes through existing voids and back walls wherever we can, and we will ask you to check consent before any work that needs it.

Inter-war houses in Eltham and Kidbrooke often have their gas meter and boiler at opposite ends of the house, joined by an old, undersized gas pipe. A modern combi needs a larger gas supply than the boiler it replaces, so we measure the pressure at the boiler and upgrade the pipe if it is too small.

Shooters Hill is one of the highest points in London, and houses on its upper slopes can have noticeably lower mains water pressure than streets near the river. If your shower or combi boiler underperforms, we measure the incoming pressure and flow, because the right answer depends on what the main can actually deliver.

Abbey Wood and the Greenwich side of Thamesmead have many 1960s and 1970s homes whose original heating has been replaced at least once, some with gas central heating and some with electric heaters. We repair both, and we can advise on whether a conversion is worth it for your home.

Charlton has many Victorian and Edwardian terraces close to the Valley and Charlton village, often with the bathroom at the back of the ground floor. Moving it upstairs, or adding a second shower room in the loft, is one of the most common projects there. Both need a sensible soil pipe route and enough hot water, which we plan before the first tile is chosen.