Emergency Plumber in Cardiff — Same Day Call-Outs
Burst pipes, blocked drains, leaks and taps put right by T & S Plumbing and Guttering, based in Cathays.
You get the price before we travel, so there is no surprise at the door.
- Open 24 hours, 7 days
- Fully insured
- Free written quotes
Water coming through a kitchen ceiling at nine on a Sunday night. A toilet that will not flush in a shared house off Crwys Road. An outside tap that has split after a frost.
These are the calls we get most weeks.
T & S Plumbing and Guttering works out of Cathays. We cover the terraces of Roath and Adamsdown, the newer streets out at Llanishen and Rumney, and most places in between.
If you have been searching for a plumber near me and getting call centres, this is simpler. One plumber, one number, and a straight answer on when we can be there.
What we do
Plumbing and guttering across Cardiff
Six jobs we get called out for most. Tap any card to read more.
Emergency Plumbing
Burst pipes, flooding and drains that have backed up, seven days a week.
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Leaks and Pipes
Finding the leak first, then repairing or replacing the pipework that caused it.
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Blocked Drains
Blocked sinks, toilets and outside drains cleared, then checked so they stay clear.
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Bathrooms
First fix pipework through to the last seal on a new suite or a single swap.
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Guttering
Cleaning, repairs and replacement, including original cast iron on older terraces.
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Commercial and Landlord
Shops, cafés, offices and rented property, booked around your opening hours.
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Round the clock
Emergency Plumber in Cardiff
When water is running and you cannot stop it, you need an emergency plumber who picks up the phone. We run a call out service across Cardiff for burst pipes, flooding and drains that have backed up.
Emergency plumber near me — what happens when you ring
You describe the problem, we give you a time, and you hear the likely cost before anyone sets off. Most same day plumbing jobs get booked in that first call.
Out of hours plumber
Pipes rarely burst at a convenient hour. We take emergency call out work in the evenings, at weekends and through the night. Same number, whatever the time.
Is there a 24 hour plumber near me?
People go looking for a 24 hour plumber when a ceiling starts dripping at two in the morning. We are open around the clock, seven days a week, so ring and you get a straight answer on when we can be there.
What to do while you wait for a plumber
Find the stopcock and turn it clockwise. In most Cardiff terraces it sits under the kitchen sink or in the cupboard by the back door. Older Cathays houses sometimes hide it under a floorboard in the hall instead.
Then switch off the electrics to any room taking water through the ceiling. If the ceiling is bulging, keep everyone out until we arrive.
Find it, then fix it
Leak Detection and Pipe Repair
A leak you can see is the easy one. The costly ones soak into a floor for months before anything shows. We start with plumbing leak detection, then fix what we find.
Burst pipe repair
A plumbing pipe repair on a burst joint is short work once the water is off. Copper split by frost needs cutting back to sound metal. If the whole run has gone, we quote for pipe replacement instead.
Water leak repair
Here is how to tell a supply leak from a waste leak. A supply leak runs all the time, even when nobody is using water. A waste leak only shows when a sink drains, a bath empties or a toilet flushes.
That test saves a lot of lifted flooring. A leaking pipe under floor boards is the one we see most in Roath.
Turn every tap off, then watch the water meter for ten minutes. If the dial is still creeping round, the leak is on your supply.
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We trace leaks without pulling a house apart. Plumbing leak repair on one short section costs far less than replacing a floor. Low water pressure across the whole house is often the first clue.
Lead pipes in Cardiff's Victorian terraces
Most of Cathays, Roath and Adamsdown went up before 1919, and plenty still have a lead supply pipe running in from the street. Lead weeps at the joints and narrows with age.
We carry out lead pipe replacement from the stopcock into the house.
Cleared properly
Blocked Drains and Toilets
A blocked drain gets worse every hour it is left. We handle blocked drain clearance, drain cleaning and blocked toilets across Cardiff, on family homes and on rented property.
From first fix to last seal
Bathroom Plumbing
A new bathroom is mostly plumbing. We handle bathroom plumbing on a full refit or a single swap, and set the pipework out before anything is tiled over.
Tell us the layout you want and we will say what the pipework allows.
Bathroom plumbers near me
We move waste and supply runs, then fit the suite. Plumbing fixture installation covers basins, baths, toilets, taps and towel rails. Shower installation takes in electric showers, mixers and thermostatic bar valves.
Shower repair is usually a worn cartridge or seal, not a new unit. A shower that runs hot then cold has a failing thermostatic cartridge behind the plate.
Water heater repair near me
Electric water heaters and electric shower units nearly always fail at the element. We repair and replace both, along with the isolator and the supply pipework. Past about ten years old, replacing beats chasing parts.
Best plumber near me for a bathroom fit
Ask for the pipework to be pressure tested before tiling starts. A leak behind a tiled wall costs far more to reach than an hour of checking. Our workmanship is guaranteed.
Small jobs welcome
Taps, Sinks and Kitchen Plumbing
Small jobs are still jobs, and no job too small is the rule here. Dripping taps, a slow sink, a washing machine that needs plumbing in — all of it counts.
Loft, wall and garden
Water Tanks, Radiators and Outdoor Plumbing
Not everything lives in the kitchen or the bathroom. Cold water tanks in the loft, radiators on the wall and pipework out to the garden all fail in their own way.
A stopcock replacement is worth doing before you need it. Half the ones we find in Cardiff terraces are seized solid and will not turn.
Find a plumber for tanks and radiators
Water tank installation and water tank repair cover cold water storage and loft tanks — the ones that feed the house by gravity. Old galvanised tanks corrode and split along a seam, usually where nobody can see.
Radiator installation and repair covers swaps, moves, valve replacement and leak repair. We drain down a section to change a valve or shift a radiator along a wall.
Before the first frost, turn the outside tap off at the isolating valve indoors and leave the tap itself open. An empty pipe cannot split.
Same day plumber for outdoor pipework
Outdoor plumbing system repair takes in garden taps, standpipes and buried supply runs to a garage or outbuilding. Frost is the usual culprit, and a frozen pipe that has split only shows itself once it thaws.
Plumber open now for a flooded cellar
Sump pump installation and sump pump repair matter in the low-lying parts of the city. Grangetown, Riverside and the streets close to the Taff sit low, and cellars there take water after heavy rain.
A pump left unused all summer often fails on the first wet night. Run it for a minute now and then.
Roofline work
Gutter Cleaning and Guttering Repairs in Cardiff
Cardiff gets a lot of rain, and a blocked gutter sends all of it down your wall instead of into the drain. We clean, repair and replace guttering across the city, on plastic and on original cast iron.
Gutter cleaning
Gutter cleaning is the job that prevents most of the others. Moss, leaves and grit build up over a winter until an overflowing gutter starts soaking the brickwork underneath.
In a climate this wet, once a year suits most houses. Anything sitting under trees is better done twice.
Domestic gutter cleaning covers terraces, semis and the flat-roofed rear extensions that fill fastest because they sit low. You can book house gutter cleaning for the same date each year so it is one less thing to remember. Commercial gutter cleaning on shops, offices and rented blocks works around your opening hours.
Gutter and downpipe repairs
Cast iron gutter repair is the one most firms turn down. Terraces in Cathays, Roath and Adamsdown still carry a lot of original cast iron, and it is worth keeping — it outlasts plastic by decades. We rebolt joints, replace cracked sections and reseal the runs.
Gutter repair and gutter leak repair on plastic guttering usually come down to a failed union or a sagging bracket. Gutter realignment and resealing puts the fall back so water runs to the outlet instead of standing in the middle.
Downpipe unblocking clears the jam at the shoe or the bend. Downpipe repair and replacement deals with cracked, missing or badly fixed pipe.
Replacement and installation
When guttering is past saving, gutter replacement is straightforward on most houses. Guttering installation on a new extension gets sized to the roof area so it copes with a heavy Cardiff downpour.
Gutter guard installation keeps leaves out where a house sits under trees. Fascia and soffit cleaning smartens the roofline up while the ladders are already there.
One tip: damp on an upstairs wall with a dry ceiling above it usually means the gutter, not the roof. From inside, the two look identical.
Water where it should not be?
Ring and you will get a straight answer on when we can be there.
Business and rented property
Commercial and Landlord Plumbing
We take on commercial plumbing alongside the domestic work. That covers shops, offices, cafés and rented houses right across Cardiff.
Commercial plumber
As a plumbing contractor we work around your opening hours. Plumbing repair in a café or a barber's shop gets booked before opening or after closing, so you are not turning customers away.
You get a plumbing engineer who attends, diagnoses and fixes on the same visit wherever the parts allow.
Student lets and HMOs
Woodville Road sits in Cathays, the main student area in Cardiff. A lot of our work is on shared houses — blocked wastes, failed showers, and taps left running by someone who has already moved out.
Turnaround between tenancies is tight. Give us the date the house empties and we work to it, evenings and weekends included.
Plumber call out rates for landlords
You hear the price on the phone before anyone travels, and it comes to you in writing. Our plumbing services work the same whether the bill goes to a homeowner, a landlord or an agent.
Simple process
How we work
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Ring us
Tell us what the problem is.
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We come and look
We find the fault and explain it in plain words.
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Price before work
You get a free written quote before we start, not a bill after. No obligation to go ahead.
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Fixed and tidied
We test the repair, clear up after ourselves, and leave the place as we found it.
Why T & S
A Cardiff plumber who does it properly
Cardiff based
We work out of Cathays, not from an office in another county.
Fully insured
Public liability cover on every job, so you are covered from the first visit.
Free written quotes
You get the price in writing, free and with no obligation, before any work starts.
Open 24 hours, 7 days
Same day call-outs across Cardiff, and a phone that gets answered at three in the morning.
Cast iron guttering
A job most firms turn down on older terraces. We take it on and keep the original in place.
One number for both
Plumbing and guttering from the same people, so nobody passes you along to someone else.
Where we work
Areas we cover
Based in Cathays and covering Cardiff, the Vale and the valleys edge. Not sure whether you are in range? Ring and ask.
- Cathays
- Roath
- Adamsdown
- Heath
- Penylan
- Canton
- Pontcanna
- Riverside
- Grangetown
- Splott
- Whitchurch
- Llanishen
- Llandaff
- Rumney
- Ely
- Penarth
- Barry
- Caerphilly
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FAQ
Questions we get asked
What do I do if a pipe bursts?
Turn the stopcock off first. In most Cardiff terraces it is under the kitchen sink or in the cupboard by the back door, and it closes clockwise. Then open the cold taps to drain the pipes down.
Switch off the electrics to any room taking water through the ceiling. Then ring us on 07404 193884.
How quickly can you get here?
We are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and we are based on Woodville Road in Cathays, so most of Cardiff is a short run. Same day call-outs are the norm.
Ring and we will give you a time on the call rather than a vague window.
What are your call out rates?
You hear the price before anyone travels, so there is no surprise at the door. Quotes are free, written and carry no obligation.
We would not describe ourselves as a cheap plumber. A cheap job that has to be done twice costs more than doing it once properly.
Do you do small jobs?
Yes. A dripping tap, a running toilet or a slow sink are all worth a visit. Plenty of firms will not turn out for a half-hour job, and we will.
Do you clean gutters as well as plumbing?
Yes. We clean, repair and replace guttering, including original cast iron on older terraces. It is the same phone number and the same people.
If you have damp on an upstairs wall but the ceiling above it is dry, it is usually the gutter rather than the roof.
Which parts of Cardiff do you cover?
Cathays, Roath, Adamsdown, Heath, Penylan, Canton, Pontcanna, Riverside, Grangetown, Splott, Whitchurch, Llanishen, Llandaff, Rumney and Ely, plus Penarth, Barry and Caerphilly.