Emergency plumber
in Burgess Hill.

Burgess Hill grew rapidly through the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and a huge proportion of the town's housing stock dates from that era. That's relevant when something fails: properties built between roughly 1965 and 1985 often still have their original copper pipework, original gravity-fed hot water tanks in the airing cupboard, and original cold water storage tanks in the loft. When these systems start to fail — and 40-plus years is well past their design life — it tends to happen suddenly. A pinhole leak in a 50-year-old copper pipe behind a kitchen unit is one of our most common Burgess Hill callouts.

The newer estates south of the railway — Folders Meadow, Kings Way, the developments around Burgess Hill Business Park — generally have sealed pressurised combi systems and plastic pipework. Different problems: pressure loss from leaking expansion vessels, shower cartridges seizing, and frozen condensate pipes in cold snaps. We carry replacement expansion vessels and shower cartridges for the most common models on the van, so most of these jobs are first-visit fixes.

The water in Burgess Hill is hard, off the South Downs chalk, so we also see a lot of limescale-related failures: combi boilers losing efficiency, immersion heaters burning out, shower mixer valves seizing. If you've noticed your hot water taking longer to come through or your shower flow weakening, scale is usually involved.