Plumber & Handyman in Walton-on-Thames & Weybridge

About Walton-on-Thames & Weybridge

Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge's riverside setting brings a steady mix of premium apartments and larger family homes, many changing hands or tenants often enough that a reliable local handyman matters.

Walton is the largest town in Elmbridge, and most of it is 20th-century. Until the 1920s the south side of the High Street was the edge of Ashley Park, the grounds of a house built between 1602 and 1607. The house came down in 1929 and the park was sold off in half-acre plots from 1930. It is a private estate of large detached houses now.

Weybridge began as a village at a ford on the River Wey and grew up beside two great estates, Oatlands Palace of the mid-16th century and Dorchester House of the 1670s. St George's Hill came after: large gated houses on wooded plots that were, historically, never less than an acre.

On plots of half an acre and more, the tap by the back door is a long way from the far end of the garden. A second outside tap is a small job, and one we fit.

We regularly work along the riverside developments near Walton Bridge, the period housing around Weybridge village, and the newer estates towards St George's Hill.

In Walton, Winchester Road was laid out in the late 19th century and became the spine of a tight grid of streets filled in over the next fifty years. East of Sidney Road the houses are inter-war and post-war, and Rydens has what Elmbridge Council's guide calls possibly the largest concentration of single-storey and chalet-style houses in the borough. Old Walton, by the river, is modest two-storey houses where many of the roof spaces have been converted. The tallest flats are in the town centre, seven storeys at The Heart and ten beside Wellington Close.

In Weybridge the roads off the High Street, to the north above all, are Victorian and Edwardian: red brick, sash windows and low front walls or hedges, with small gardens and parking on the street. Portmore Park Road has very late Victorian and Edwardian houses on large plots, and the villas and terraces round Heath Road, on the way in from the station, are of the same years.

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.