Plumber & drainage engineers in Fitzrovia

Fitzrovia sits between Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Great Portland Street and Euston Road, and it is split between two councils. Roughly speaking, the streets east of Cleveland Street are in the London Borough of Camden and those to the west are in the City of Westminster. The area mixes Georgian terraces, Victorian mansion blocks, former furniture workshops and modern office developments, with restaurants concentrated along Charlotte Street and Goodge Street.

Fitzroy Square is the clearest example of the older stock: stone-faced Georgian houses, listed, many now used as offices or flats. Around it, terraced houses have been divided into flats over the decades, often with extra bathrooms and kitchens added on upper floors. Those additions tend to connect into original cast-iron stacks and clay drain runs that were never sized for them. Slow drainage, gurgling and smells on the lower floors are common signs that the system is struggling.

Charlotte Street’s restaurants and the offices and studios along Tottenham Court Road and Newman Street bring commercial loads into the same network. Kitchen grease and heavy washroom use are the usual culprits. We clear blockages with rods or high-pressure water jetting, then put a CCTV camera through the drain to check for cracks, displaced joints or build-up. Where a pipe needs repair, we look at no-dig relining first and use traditional excavation only where relining will not do the job.

Getting around Fitzrovia is easier than in Soho, but there are still restrictions. Many streets are one-way, parking and loading are controlled by two different councils, and Euston Road on the northern edge is a red route. The area is within the Congestion Charge zone and ULEZ. Our engineers check the rules for the specific street before arriving. We work 24 hours a day, so evening and weekend visits for offices and restaurants are simple to arrange.