Tap Repair & Replacement — UK-Wide, Vetted & Priced Up Front

A dripping tap wastes up to 5,500 litres a year and announces itself every night at 2am. Our your area plumbers repair or replace taps of every type, usually within the hour.

Repairs: washers, cartridges and seals

Traditional compression taps drip because the washer or seat has worn — a re-washer and reseat is a fast, cheap repair. Ceramic disc taps (most modern mixers and quarter-turn taps) drip because the cartridge has worn or scaled; we carry common cartridge sizes and match obscure ones by manufacturer. O-rings cure leaks from the spout base and handles. In your area's water, scale accelerates all of this — which also means a serviced tap lasts visibly longer than a neglected one.

Diagnosis by symptom: a steady drip from the spout is a washer (compression taps) or cartridge (ceramic disc); leakage around the base of a swivel spout is O-rings; a handle that turns without resistance is a stripped head or spline; banging pipes when the tap closes is water hammer, cured with an arrestor or pressure adjustment rather than a new tap. Each is a stocked-part fix for our your area engineers. Your local water hardness affects how quickly scale builds in taps, cylinders and showers.

Replacement done properly

A professional tap replacement includes the parts that fail next: new flexible connectors (the old ones are the most common future flood source), service/isolation valves fitted if absent, thread sealing done correctly, and the tap tightened against a supported base rather than a flexing sink. It's the difference between a tap swap and a tap swap you won't revisit. We supply-and-fit or fit your purchased tap across your area at the same labour rate.

When we replace a tap in your area, isolation valves go in as standard if there are none — future repairs then take minutes and no draining down. Old flexis are replaced rather than reused, back-nuts get proper tools rather than swearing, and monoblocs are stabilised with the correct fixing kit so the tap doesn't work loose in a month. You can supply your own tap or choose from ranges we stock.

The real cost of a drip

One drip per second is roughly 5,500 litres a year — on a metered your area supply, that's paid for twice, as water and as sewerage. Hot taps are worse: every drip carries heating cost too. A £65 repair typically pays for itself within months on a metered hot tap, before counting the staining and scale damage to the sink below.

That background drip is a running bill: thousands of litres a year, doubled in cost on a meter (supply plus sewerage), tripled in annoyance. Hot-side drips also drain your cylinder's heat. In your area's water the drip also leaves scale tracks that etch chrome and stain ceramics — cosmetic damage that outlasts the fault.

Tap work pricing in your area

Repairs from £65 including standard parts; replacement labour is a fixed band with the tap itself either supplied by you or itemised by us. Awkward access — seized fittings, no isolation, corroded traps in the way — is flagged before work continues, never billed as a surprise. All your area pricing is confirmed before the engineer starts.

From £65 for standard tap repairs in your area, parts included. Replacements are quoted as labour plus tap, so you can compare our supplied ranges with your own purchase like-for-like. If your existing tap is obsolete and a repair means hunting discontinued cartridges, we'll tell you the honest economics up front.