Plumber & Handyman in Guildford

About Guildford

Guildford is the largest town in our Surrey coverage, from the historic streets around the castle and High Street to the newer estates on the outskirts - and we're ready to take on the full range of handyman and plumbing work it brings.

Guildford grew where the old road along the chalk ridge dropped down to cross the River Wey. The chalk is still part of the town: the assessment written for Guildford Borough Council notes disused quarries and the entrances to old mines of clunch, the chalk stone that Castle Street and the castle were built with. The Wey was made navigable in 1653, the railway came in 1845, and it was the railway that set the population growing.

A good deal of the town is on a slope. If there are steps up to your door, say so when you book anything heavy to be fitted, a washing machine or a radiator, so we come ready for the carry.

We work across the period terraces near the town centre, the family homes towards Merrow and Burpham, and the newer developments around Park Barn.

Charlotteville, south-east of the centre, was the first large estate. Dr T. Jenner Sells owned the land, named it after his wife and named the streets after famous doctors. Unusually, villas for the middle classes and smaller houses for workers were built side by side there.

The streets nearest the centre are late Victorian: straight roads of two-storey terraces and semis, with larger villas, many of them now flats, in brick with a little stone or flint. There are late Victorian terraces along Station View and north of North Street, and Georgian villas on the Portsmouth Road.

Onslow Village was begun after the First World War, when soldiers coming home made the shortage of houses worse, on the hillside of the old royal deer park west of the town. The Downs limit building to the south, so the council estates that followed went north. Bellfields and Park Barn are large post-war estates. Since the 1960s more have been added at Rydes Hill and Boxgrove, and out at Burpham and Merrow.

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.