Our interwar bungalow still has its old pipework. Does replacing it mean every floor comes up?

Less than you might fear. Single-storey homes are the kindest to replumb because most pipes run through the loft and drop down the walls, so there is far less floor lifting than in a two-storey house. There's still some disruption: boxing to open up and some boards up in the kitchen or bathroom. An emergency visit stops the immediate leak; the replacement itself gets surveyed and quoted properly afterwards.

We're converting the loft. Will our water pressure cope with a shower up there?

Often not without changes. Many Lancing bungalows run a gravity system from a cold tank in the loft, and a shower at the same height as the tank gets almost no pressure. A pump, a different hot water setup or an upgraded supply may be needed, and the right answer depends on what the stopcock delivers. A fair share of our Lancing call-outs are loft showers that were added without anyone checking the pressure first.

Does plumbing near Beach Green really wear out faster?

Outside, noticeably faster. Salt-laden air corrodes outside taps, brass fittings and pipe clips, and the damage stays hidden until a fitting seizes or splits in a frost. If your outside tap faces the sea, a good-quality replacement and an inside isolation valve so it can be drained for winter are worth having. Where corrosion caused the leak, we can usually fit a better replacement during the emergency visit.

Can you come out tonight?

Yes. We run a 24 hour rota that covers evenings, weekends and bank holidays. Call and you get a real arrival window before anyone sets off, not a vague promise.

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No water in the whole bungalow

Total loss lands on the incoming side: the supplier's main, the outside stop tap, the supply pipe or a stopcock that has failed. Where neighbours have water and you do not, the problem is on your side of the boundary, so the supply pipe is checked before anything else is opened.

Pressure is weak everywhere

Older Lancing bungalows often still have a narrow or galvanised supply pipe, and hard water slowly closes the bore. That is why the loss follows the whole house rather than one tap. We read pressure and flow at the stopcock and tell you whether a valve or the pipe itself is to blame.

Kitchen tap has stopped but the rest run

Kitchen taps in extended bungalows are often fed from a branch added years later, with the joint buried in a wall or under a floor. A closed isolation valve or a blocked tap cartridge is the usual cause. Locating that branch is most of the work; fixing it takes minutes.

No hot water in the morning

Nothing fails at random. An immersion heater on a timer, an empty loft tank and an airlock after work on the pipes all leave a cold cylinder by morning. We check the tank, the cylinder and the pipework, and tell you straight away if a Gas Safe registered engineer is needed for the boiler.

Pipes bang every time a tap shuts

Contained problems are the easier ones. Either a valve is closing too fast, or a length of pipe has lost its clips and is free to move. We find the noisy section in the loft or under the floor and secure it properly.

Water under the sink when the dishwasher drains

Waste connections perish and loosen long before they fail completely, and the trap under the sink suffers as well. We run the appliance with the cupboard open, which gives a definite answer instead of swapping parts and hoping.

Every job ends with the system left watertight, not just turned back on. If a repair has to wait on parts, the affected pipe stays isolated and clearly labelled.