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Brighton is the furthest reach of our coverage map, and it's still somewhere we go — Victorian terraces in Kemptown, converted flats along the seafront, and basement conversions near the station all need a plumber in Brighton who knows what these buildings are actually like inside the walls. We're based in Crawley, around 45 minutes up the A23, and we take Brighton and Hove jobs on the same honest terms as everywhere else: a clear price agreed before we start, fully insured work, and a proper repair rather than a quick patch. If it's urgent we'll tell you straight whether we can get there fast or whether it's better booked in — no false promises either way.
Everything we do from our Crawley base, we do in Brighton and Hove too — the difference is knowing what this city's housing actually throws at you. Here's the full range, with the Brighton-specific detail that matters.
Basement and lower-ground flats near the seafront flood fast when a pipe lets go, and Victorian terraces often hide a stopcock behind decades of decorating. Our emergency plumber service covers Brighton and Hove — call and we'll talk you through shutting the water off while we're on the way. Whether it's the middle of the night or a Sunday morning, we treat a genuine Brighton emergency with the same urgency as a job five minutes from our own front door.
Original lead and old galvanised pipework is still common behind Brighton's period walls, and it corrodes from the inside until it simply gives way. Our burst pipe repair service covers frost-bursts, corrosion-bursts and failed joints — where lead is failing, we'll say so and replace the run properly rather than patch a pipe that's on its way out anyway. We carry copper, plastic and the transition fittings needed to bring old lead runs safely into modern pipework, so most repairs are finished in a single visit.
Brighton's tight Victorian floorplans and loft conversions mean bathroom fits often involve awkward pipe runs and low headroom that a generic install doesn't account for. Our bathroom installation service plans around your actual layout. We'll walk the space with you first and talk through what's actually possible before anything gets ordered, rather than fitting a generic layout that doesn't suit a Victorian floorplan.
A lot of Brighton terraces still run older radiators with cold spots and uneven heat from decades of alterations. Our radiator and heating repairs service sorts cold spots, replacements and valve issues — we don't touch the boiler itself, just everything around it. If a room's never quite warmed up properly since you moved in, that's usually a balancing issue we can sort without touching the rest of the system.
Basement kitchen conversions are common in Brighton's split terraces, often with supply pipework that's been altered more than once by previous owners. Our kitchen plumbing service handles sinks, taps, dishwashers and washing machines, and we'll flag anything upstream that needs sorting first. We'll check the condition of the existing supply and waste pipework before connecting anything new, rather than hoping decades-old fittings hold up under a new appliance.
Conversions and renovations are a way of life in Brighton's period housing stock, and the plumbing has to be right before anything gets tiled or plastered over it. Our building work service covers the wider job, not just the pipes. We manage the plumbing and drainage side of the project properly from the start, so nothing has to be opened back up once the tiling's done.
Brighton and Hove is dominated by Victorian and Edwardian terraces — the kind of housing stock where the plumbing has usually been added to, altered and patched by several different owners over 100-plus years rather than installed once properly. That history shapes most of what we get called out for here.
Lead pipework is the big one. Plenty of Brighton terraces still have some original lead supply pipe buried in walls or under floors, especially on the incoming main. Lead doesn't usually fail dramatically — it weeps, then it splits, often with no warning. Where we find it, we'll tell you honestly rather than just patch around it, because a patched lead pipe is still a lead pipe with a limited life left.
Conversions are the second big pattern. Brighton has an enormous number of single houses split into flats — Victorian villas turned into two, three or four separate units, each needing its own isolation, sometimes sharing a single old supply that was never designed for multiple households. When something goes wrong in a converted building, tracing which pipe belongs to which flat is half the job.
Basement and lower-ground flats are the third pattern, and the one with the highest stakes. Ground level on a lot of Brighton's terraced streets sits below the pavement, so a leak upstairs — or even outside — ends up as water in a basement flat with nowhere to drain to. We treat basement leaks in Brighton as genuinely urgent, because the flooding risk is real, not theoretical.
We're honest about the practical side too: Brighton is around 45 minutes from our Crawley base, further than most of our coverage area, so for a non-urgent job we'll usually book it in rather than promise we can be there within the hour. For anything that's actually flooding — a burst pipe, a basement filling with water — we treat it exactly the same as a job five minutes from home and get moving straight away. Brighton customers get the same VAT-receipted, itemised invoice as anyone else on our books, and the same guarantee that if something we've fixed fails again, we come back and put it right.
We cover Brighton and Hove in full — BN1 (central Brighton and the Lanes), BN2 (Kemptown and east Brighton) and BN3 (Hove and Portslade). Not sure your postcode is included? The simplest thing is to call — if you're anywhere in Brighton and Hove, chances are we cover you.
See all the areas we cover, or if you're not listed and think you're within an hour of Crawley, give us a call — chances are we cover you too.
Brighton is around 45 minutes from our base in Crawley — the furthest edge of our regular coverage. For a genuine emergency, a burst pipe or a leak that's actively flooding, we'll drop what we can and get moving straight away. For anything that isn't urgent, we'll usually book it into the diary and give you a proper time slot rather than promise something we can't deliver.
No. There's no separate travel charge — you get a clear price for the job itself, agreed before any work starts, the same as everywhere else we cover. The only difference Brighton's distance makes is how quickly we can realistically get to you, which we'll always be upfront about on the phone.
Yes — it's a large part of what we do in Brighton. Original lead supply pipe is still common in the city's Victorian terraces, and we know what corroding lead pipework looks like before it fails completely. We also do a lot of work in converted buildings and basement or lower-ground flats, where flooding risk is higher and isolating the right supply matters.
Plumbing, drainage and building work are our trade. For gas appliances, gas pipework or boilers we'll point you to a Gas Safe registered engineer (gassaferegister.co.uk) — the right trade for that part of the job. If you smell gas, call 0800 111 999 straight away.
Yes — the whole of Brighton and Hove is within our coverage, from central Brighton (BN1) through Kemptown and east Brighton (BN2) to Hove and Portslade (BN3). Call us on 07884 064809 and we'll confirm timing for your specific postcode.
Call or WhatsApp — tell us what's going on and we'll give you a straight answer on timing.