Plumber & Handyman in Cheam

About Cheam

Cheam stayed a quiet village until the 1920s: in 1801 it had 616 people. Then, during the 1920s and early 1930s, farm and brewery land at the crossroads was released for building, Malden Road was widened and lined with new mock Tudor shops, and the houses around the village went up. Sutton Council calls them typical inter-war housing stock.

So most of Cheam is about a hundred years old, the age at which original taps, valves and pipe joints come to the end of their life.

The older Cheam is around Park Lane and Whitehall, a timber-framed house built in the early 1500s that is now a museum. The listed buildings there date from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and Jubilee Road has a terrace of Victorian houses.

South Cheam is different again. The Burton Estates were built between the wars as large detached houses on large plots, in an Arts and Crafts manner, and their builder said there was no such thing as a standard type of house on the estate. The Drive and parts of Burdon Lane are older, Edwardian.

SES Water classes the water in central Cheam as hard: 15 Clarke degrees in its 2025 report. A tap that has gone stiff or a toilet that fills slowly can be limescale, and we clear or replace the scaled part before anything bigger.

Plumbing is £90 an hour and handyman work £60, with a one-hour minimum. Pick a time that suits you and pay online: a £50 deposit secures your slot and comes off the final bill.