Plumber & Handyman in Esher

About Esher

Esher has older cottages and period houses around the High Street and Esher Green, family homes in the roads towards Hinchley Wood and Claygate, and large detached houses on its quieter roads. Older pipework and original bathrooms bring the usual dripping taps, leaking joints and blocked sinks. We are about 15 minutes away in Chessington and bring the tools and common parts to finish most jobs in one visit.

Esher's greens were kept open on purpose. The owners of the Claremont Estate were also lords of the manor, and they made sure the land around the town stayed undeveloped. Building came in the 20th century, in small and medium parcels, and Elmbridge Council describes the result as mostly large detached houses, many of them on private or semi-private estates protected by covenants.

Some of those estates are gated. If yours is, give us the gate code or a number to ring when you book.

On Clare Hill, south of the centre, early 20th-century houses stand on the edge of Claremont's 18th-century park. The estate insisted on a single architect, Blair Imrie, for most of them, and he favoured bricks in tan, peach, orange and brown with cream mortar. A wall patched there has those shades to match.

Esher Place, north of the centre, is a 1930s extension: large houses on straight, tree-lined roads. Lower Green, on the far side of Sandown Park, is different again, with two-storey houses from between the wars and after, some of them terraced. West End is a village of its own round a triangular green, where buildings are rarely over two and a half storeys and often of cottage scale.

Materials for higher-spec fixtures are always agreed with you up front.

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.