Plumber & Handyman in Chessington

About Chessington

Chessington is where it all starts for us - our technicians are dispatched from right here, so it's usually our fastest turnaround area for both handyman and plumbing work.

Chessington was still farmland at the start of the 20th century. Kingston Council's character study describes how it was then built in pockets, each over a short time: the late 1930s, the 1950s, the 1970s. A street here is usually of one decade, so your address tells us the age of the house before we set off.

Much of it is 1930s. Moorfield Road is semi-detached, with tile-hung gables and oriel windows. Fircroft Road and Hook Rise have semis with mansard fronts, and Cheshire Gardens is short terraces with tile-hung bays. The terraces around Compton Crescent are pebbledashed under clay pantiles.

The 1950s brought the council-built terraces of Sanger Avenue and Coutts Avenue, with pantiled roofs and the Surbiton Borough Council emblem on them, and the short terraces of Chantry and Mount Roads. Garrison Lane is mostly post-war: flats, maisonettes and semis. The estate at the east end of Chantry Road is from the 1970s and 80s, and Merritt Gardens was laid out in the 1990s on the site of the Air Ministry's rehabilitation centre.

Hook, either side of Hook Road, is mostly 1930s semis as well, though parts of Clayton, Haycroft and Gladstone Roads go back to the 1880s. Malden Rushett, further down the Leatherhead Road, is a hamlet of Victorian cottages and villas, with 1950s houses in Woodview.

We know the mix of properties that make up Chessington inside out.

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.