Plumber & Handyman in Wimbledon

About Wimbledon

Wimbledon's grand Victorian houses and the busy flats around the Broadway and station keep our plumbing and carpentry teams equally busy.

Wimbledon started at the top of the hill, where the Village is, and came down it. The railway opened in 1838 and the centre of the town moved to the station. In the second half of the 19th century villas and terraces spread out between the two, and Merton Council's character study puts the peak of the building in the 1930s.

The study also records what became of the biggest houses: during the Second World War many of the largest Victorian ones were divided into flats or replaced with blocks. If your home is a flat in one of them, tell us when you book how we get in: a street door of your own, an entry phone or a porter.

We're well practised on the large period homes near Wimbledon Village and the Common, as well as the denser housing around South Wimbledon and Merton Park.

East of the centre, round Queen's Road, the streets are a grid of terraces, with double-fronted villas facing South Park Gardens. The terraces carry on north towards Durnsford Road and Plough Lane, dense and all of a piece, the Haydons Park estate among them. South-west of the centre, Wimbledon Chase is quiet Victorian and Edwardian streets, and the roads that climb west from Worple Road mix villas, terraced cottages and mansion blocks.

Up the hill it opens out. On the Ridgway the plots are large and the ground steep, with detached houses, cottages and blocks of flats stepping up the slope. Parkside and West Wimbledon are substantial detached houses on big plots, many of them on quiet dead-end roads.

Merton Park was developed by John Innes at the end of the 19th century, on early garden-suburb lines. The centre of South Wimbledon stands on what was Admiral Lord Nelson's estate. Morden is later: the Northern line reached it in 1926, the streets grew up round the station, and most of it is suburban houses and cottage estates.

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.