Emergency & General Repairs
Burst pipes, a geyser emptying into a ceiling, sewage backing up. We talk you through isolating it on the phone, then get to you and make it safe before anything else.
View service →Looking for a plumber in Alberton? We handle burst pipes, blocked drains, geyser repairs and hidden leaks across Alberton and the East Rand, and we tell you the price before the work starts. Coming out to quote costs you nothing, and the invoice at the end comes apart into parts, labour and call-out.
Tell us what is happening and we will come back to you with a straight price, at no cost and with nothing owed if you decide against it.
We are a local team working out of Alberton, and the way we run a job is deliberately boring: arrive when we said, show you the fault, give you the number, and only then start. Whether you need a plumber in Alberton for a running toilet or a geyser that has gone through the ceiling, you will know what is happening and what it costs at every point.
We cover the whole town, from the older streets of Alberton North, New Redruth and Verwoerdpark where the supply pipe behind the wall is usually galvanised, through Brackenhurst and Brackendowns, up to the estates at Meyersdal and Alberante, and out to Alrode and Germiston. Same team and the same pricing whether it is a dripping mixer on a Tuesday or a burst main on a Saturday morning.
Whatever you need from a plumber in Alberton, the same qualified team does it, keeps the site clean, and puts the price in writing first.
Burst pipes, a geyser emptying into a ceiling, sewage backing up. We talk you through isolating it on the phone, then get to you and make it safe before anything else.
View service →No hot water, a dripping overflow or a tank that has split. Elements, thermostats and T&P valves renewed, with the warranty date checked before anyone talks about a new geyser.
View service →Electric, solar, heat pump or gas against SANS 10254, with a fresh tray, overflow, vacuum breakers and pressure control fitted as part of the job and the certificate signed the same day.
View service →Geysers, hobs and heaters run in by a registered installer, and the SAQCC Gas Certificate of Conformity your insurer will eventually ask for handed over at the end.
View service →The most common reason Alberton homeowners call a plumber. Acoustic and thermal equipment to find a buried leak and mark exactly where it is, before anything is broken open.
View service →Kitchens, toilets, gullies and sewer lines cleared by rodding or high-pressure jetting, and a straight answer on whether the blockage is yours or the City's.
View service →A camera down the line to show you the root, the crack or the collapse behind a blockage that keeps coming back, with the footage handed to you afterwards.
View service →Open water on the Highveld disappears faster than people expect. We separate that from a genuine leak first, then hold each line under pressure instead of taking up paving on a hunch.
View service →Pressure that hammers in the morning, never reaches the upstairs shower or has faded over years. We measure at the meter and inside, then repair the actual cause.
View service →Taps, toilets, basins and showers, with the supply and waste behind them renewed while the wall is open instead of disappearing under the new tiling.
View service →New builds, additions, cottages and full repipes installed to SANS 10252-1, planned around your build and priced before the first trench is opened.
View service →Low-disruption work for Alrode factories, Alberton shops and offices, body corporates and complexes, with grease traps and scheduled maintenance handled on a contract.
View service →How we work a price out, what pushes it up, what we will quote over the phone, and why the invoice splits into parts, labour and call-out.
View service →Not sure which one you need? Describe what is happening and we will tell you.
Written down here before you call, so you can hold us to them afterwards.
You get a time and a phone call if anything moves it. Waiting in all day for a plumber is not a service.
Coming out to look and price it is free. Take the quote, sit on it, or compare it. Nothing is owed either way.
Parts, labour and call-out on separate lines. That is what your insurer needs, and a single lump sum cannot give it to them.
If it is running now, the first call is about stopping it, not about booking us. We walk you to the stopcock before we talk about anything else.
Emergency plumbing →Alberton homes are not failing from hard water. They are failing from a daily pressure cycle, and once you know that, most of what goes wrong here makes sense. The City of Ekurhuleni manages demand by reducing water pressure in high-consumption areas and closing reservoir outlet valves at night so storage can build back up. That is published policy, not a rumour. Your supply falls away late at night and comes back when the valve reopens.
A pipe network that empties and refills every day is a pipe network under fatigue. Air gets in while it is down, and when the pressure returns it arrives as a shock rather than a steady push. That is what works compression joints loose, what splits a tired geyser, what makes a toilet inlet valve start weeping, and what turns a pinhole in a buried run into something that costs you thousands on a bill you only see a month later.
The pipes taking that punishment are old. Ekurhuleni has put the cost of replacing its ageing asbestos and steel water mains at around R3 billion, and names Palm Ridge and Thokoza among the hardest-hit areas in the metro. Almost a third of the water the City buys from Rand Water never reaches a tap, which is why 750 pressure reducing valves have been refurbished specifically to bring background leakage down.
What that means for you is practical. A pressure reducing valve on your side of the meter is the cheapest protection an Alberton house can buy, because it turns that daily shock into a steady supply. A leak you cannot see is more likely here than in a town with stable pressure, and the ground helps hide it: Alberton drains into the Natalspruit and on into the Klip River, a catchment that was historically marshland, so water leaving a buried pipe often soaks away instead of surfacing on the lawn.
The five-minute version: close every tap in the house, then watch the meter. If the dial is still turning, you have a leak on your side of the boundary and it is yours to fix. If the dial is still and the pressure is simply poor at night, that is the reservoir regime and no amount of work inside the house will change it.
All of Alberton and the suburbs wrapped around it: Alberton North, New Redruth, Florentia, Verwoerdpark, Randhart, Raceview, South Crest and Mayberry Park, out to Brackenhurst, Brackendowns, Albertsdal, Eden Park, Palm Ridge and Thokoza, up to Meyersdal and Alberante, across Alrode for commercial work, and into Germiston.
The faults behind the calls Alberton homeowners make most, and what each one actually needs.
Hot water gone and a stained ceiling is usually the element rather than the tank. If the unit is inside its five year warranty the cylinder itself may cost nothing, which is why the date stamp gets read before anyone quotes a replacement.
A bill up by a third with nothing changed in the house, and a meter still turning with every tap shut, means a leak on your side of the boundary. Acoustic tracing marks it to a point, so one spot is opened instead of a driveway.
A third blockage in a year at the same gully is rarely about the blockage. In Alberton's older streets it is usually roots at an earthenware joint, and a camera settles whether that sits on your side of the connection or the City's.
Every one of the questions Google shows around this search is about price, so that is where this starts.
That depends on the work, and there is no useful average sitting between a weeping mixer and a bathroom stripped back to bare pipe. What we can tell you is how the number is built and what it will not do. There is no fee to come out and quote, so finding out what something costs does not cost you anything. Where a job can honestly be priced over the phone we price it over the phone instead of making you book a visit to hear a figure. The plumbing prices page goes through how the figure is built and what drives it upwards.
No. Coming out to look and quote is free and carries no obligation at all. You can take the quote, sit on it for a week, or put it next to another one, and nothing is owed either way. A call-out is charged only when we are called to attend rather than to price, for example an after-hours emergency where the job is to isolate and make safe, and you hear that figure before we get in the vehicle rather than after.
Very often that is not your plumbing at all. The City of Ekurhuleni manages demand by reducing pressure in high-consumption areas and closing reservoir outlet valves at night so storage can build back up, and your supply returns when the valve reopens in the morning. Knowing that saves money, because there is no point paying anyone to chase a pressure problem inside the house when the cause is outside the boundary. Our water pressure repairs page has the test that tells the two apart in five minutes.
We run 7:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday and 7:00 to 13:00 on a Saturday, which is where the bulk of the diary sits. For a genuine emergency, a burst pipe you cannot stop, a geyser coming through a ceiling, or sewage backing up inside the house, we take calls outside those hours. We would rather tell you our real hours than put a 24 hour badge on the van and leave you waiting until morning for a reply. Water actually moving? Ring us. The form is for anything that can wait, and the emergency plumber page sets out what to do until somebody arrives.
Yes, and the paperwork is the part that decides it. We check the manufacturer warranty date before quoting a replacement, because a geyser under five years old may be a free unit and that is easy to miss in a panic. We issue the PIRB Certificate of Compliance on the day the work is signed off rather than leaving you to chase it. And the invoice is itemised into parts and labour, which is what an insurer asks for and what a single lump-sum figure cannot provide. There is more on geyser repair and geyser installation.
The whole of Alberton and the suburbs around it: Alberton North, New Redruth, Florentia, Verwoerdpark, Randhart, Raceview, South Crest, Mayberry Park, Brackenhurst, Brackendowns, Meyersdal, Alberante, Albertsdal, Eden Park, Palm Ridge and Thokoza, plus Alrode for commercial and industrial work and across into Germiston. Estate and complex work is a normal part of the week, so access arrangements and the paperwork a managing agent wants on file are handled rather than handed back to you.
Emergency and general repairs, geyser repair and geyser installation, gas installations, leak detection and pool leak detection, blocked drains and sewer, CCTV camera inspections, bathroom and kitchen plumbing, water pressure repairs, new installations and commercial plumbing. Not sure which of those you are looking at? Describe the symptom and we will name it for you.
Yes, free and with nothing attached to them. Most work has to be seen before anybody can put a defensible figure on it, so we come and look, then put the number in writing. From there it is entirely your call: accept it, shelve it, or set it beside another. We do not follow up uninvited.
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