Plumber in Faversham, Kent

Faversham is one of Kent's oldest market towns, and it shows in the plumbing. Timber-framed and brick cottages around Abbey Street, the Creek and Market Place often have decades of piecemeal pipework behind the plaster — a length of original copper here, a 1970s alteration there, a push-fit repair from the last owner. Add the Georgian townhouses, the Victorian terraces off East Street and the family homes in Preston, Ospringe and Davington, and no two jobs in this town look the same. We take the time to see what's actually there before we start cutting.

The calls we take most often in Faversham are dripping taps and mixer cartridges, toilets that keep refilling, slow or leaking wastes, weeping radiator valves, seized isolation valves and stopcocks that haven't been turned in twenty years, and small pipework alterations during a kitchen or bathroom upgrade. In older properties we also get called to hidden leaks — a stain spreading on a ceiling, a heating system that won't hold pressure, or a water meter that keeps moving overnight. We isolate and narrow those down before anything is lifted.

Water in the ME13 area is hard, and in a town with this much original pipework that matters. Limescale takes out tap cartridges and shower seals early, furs up cylinders and immersion heaters, and ordinary brass fittings can suffer dezincification and start to weep years before they should. That's why we fit DZR brass where it counts, and why we're happy to talk through softeners, conditioners and drinking-water filtration if you'd rather protect the whole system than keep replacing parts.

Getting to Faversham is straightforward for us — it's a run up the A251 from Ashford, so we can usually cover ME13 alongside our Canterbury and Ashford work. We serve Faversham town centre, Ospringe, Preston, Davington, Oare, Boughton-under-Blean, Selling, Newnham and Doddington, and out toward Whitstable and Sittingbourne. If you're in a village nearby and want to check, send us a photo of the problem and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help.