Plumbing, Gas & Heating Engineersin Plumstead Literally our own street
DHP London has traded across South East London for over 30 years. When a Plumstead boiler fails or a Plumstead pipe bursts, the nearest Gas Safe engineer is very often us, and the customer usually already knows us by name.
Free written estimates on our own doorstep. £80 minimum labour if you go ahead. No cross-London travel time added.
Why Plumstead customers keep calling us back.
Plumstead is home. Every van starts and finishes here, and a huge share of Danny's original customer base, some now on the second or third boiler he has fitted, still lives inside SE18. The housing is mostly late Victorian terraces on the north side, larger Edwardian and inter-war homes climbing Plumstead Common, and post-war council stock in between. We know the pipe layouts by street, and often by house.
This is our home postcode · approx 0–5 minutes on a normal traffic day.
Neighbourhoods we cover
- We serve Plumstead
- All of Plumstead SE18: Plumstead Common, Plumstead High Street, Plumstead Village, Bostall, Winn's Common and the roads climbing up to Shooters Hill.
- Response times
- Because we are physically inside Plumstead, response times are effectively immediate. Most Plumstead visits are booked promptly; genuine emergencies during 9am–9pm office hours are handled as a priority.
- Property types we know
- Late-Victorian terraces, Edwardian bay-fronted houses climbing Plumstead Common, 1930s semis, and post-war council flats. Almost every SE18 typology is represented within a mile of our yard.
- Common Plumstead jobs
- Plumstead calls tend to be boiler installs and repairs on ageing combis, full re-plumbs during extensions, landlord CP12 certificates, and bathroom refurbishments in narrow terrace footprints.
What we get called out for in Plumstead.
The jobs below make up the bulk of our week inside SE18. Every one is priced in writing, Gas Safe compliant.
Boiler Repairs
Cold radiators, no hot water, an F1, F22 or E133 lockout code, we've seen every fault on every major boiler over the last 30+ years. Fixed-price diagnostic, honest recommendation on repair versus replace, no upsell.
Boiler Installation
A quiet, efficient, A-rated boiler installed by a Gas Safe engineer with over 30 years on South East London homes, lower bills, hotter showers, and the manufacturer warranty registered in your name before we leave.
Central Heating Installation
A complete central heating system designed around your home, from heat loss calculation and boiler sizing through radiators, zoning, controls and commissioning. One team, one accountable install, warrantied in writing.
Landlord Gas Safety (CP12)
Statutory annual gas safety inspection carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer, certificate emailed to tenant and agent within hours, records retained for 10 years, everything you need to stay legally compliant as a landlord in South East London.
Bathroom Installation
A new bathroom without the six-trades chaos. Danny sits with you, sketches the layout, sources fittings, then plumbs, tiles and finishes with a small trusted team, clean site, agreed timeline, one point of accountability from first sketch to final silicone bead.
Plumbing
A proper local plumber for everything from a dripping tap to a mains stopcock, a leaking cistern to a blocked waste, with over 30 years of South East London homes behind him and a fair, transparent price on every job.
Concrete reasons, not marketing lines.
Every fact below comes from how we actually run the business, over 30 years continuously trading from the same Plumstead yard, one Gas Safe registration.
Our yard is on your postcode
Trading in London
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- Gas Safe registered #180521
- 4.9★ average from 159 Google reviews
- Office open 9am–9pm, 7 days a week
The problems we see again and again in Plumstead.
Local heating and plumbing issues are rarely random. They follow the era of the property, the pipework, the water conditions and the way the house has been extended. Here is what our diary in SE18 actually looks like.
Victorian terraces off Plumstead High Street
Original small-bore pipework, ground-floor bathrooms added later, and boilers wedged into airing cupboards. We know the layout because we probably fitted the last one.
Bay-fronted Edwardian homes on the Common
Larger footprints, often now on system boilers with cylinders. We size the replacement to the actual heat loss and radiator schedule, not to whatever was there before.
Council-era flats and maisonettes
Combis fitted on tight budgets a decade ago are now ready for replacement. We give an honest repair-versus-replace call rather than defaulting to the sale.
Narrow bathrooms in terraces
Terraced Plumstead bathrooms are small. Getting a walk-in shower, WC and basin to actually work needs proper design, Danny will draw the layout with you first, not after ripping the room out.
Extensions and re-plumbs
SE18 extensions almost always break the heating circuit and move the boiler. We plan the pipe route with your builder before the slab goes down so the finished job actually works.
The same five steps for every Plumstead job.
- 1
Call the office
Speak to Danny or the office team direct on 07956 994429. Describe the problem or the project in Plumstead, we'll tell you what we need to see.
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Free written estimate
For anything bigger than a diagnostic, we survey the property and send a fixed, written quote. No sales pressure and no vague phone-guess pricing.
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Booked visit, real time window
Because we're based in Plumstead, Plumstead visits get a real time window rather than a vague 'sometime today'. Approx 0–5 minutes from the yard.
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Work carried out to Gas Safe standard
All gas work is carried out by Danny or a supervised engineer under Gas Safe registration #180521, and notified where legally required.
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Documented sign-off
Manufacturer boiler warranty (typically 7–10 years) registered in your name, plus full documentation for landlord or property records.
Questions we hear from Plumstead customers.
Are you actually based in Plumstead?+
Yes. DHP London Ltd is a London-based business. Plumstead is not a marketing 'service area' for us, it is where our yard has been for over 30 years.
How quickly can you reach me in Plumstead?+
Effectively immediately. Most Plumstead jobs are booked promptly, and emergencies during 9am–9pm office hours are dispatched as a priority.
Do you know the Victorian terraces off the High Street?+
Yes, a lot of the original boilers on those streets were fitted by us, and we know the pipe routes because we planned them.
How much is a boiler service in Plumstead?+
A standard annual service starts from our £80 minimum labour charge and is a fixed one-hour visit. Parts, if needed, are quoted before we fit them.
How quickly can you fit a boiler in Plumstead?+
Where a customer is off heating and hot water and we have stock, yes, we work hard to keep vulnerable customers with heating in Plumstead. Larger jobs are booked properly after a written quote.
Do you cover landlord CP12s in Plumstead?+
Yes. Gas Safe registered (#180521), CP12 certificates issued same or next day in most cases across SE18.
Can you do a full bathroom refurbishment?+
Yes. Danny designs the layout with you, prices the whole job in writing, and coordinates plumbing, tiling, plastering and electrical isolation start to finish.
What if I'm a long-standing customer already?+
A lot of Plumstead households are. Call the office and give the address, we can normally pull the history of what we last did, which brand of boiler we fitted and when.
Do I get a written guarantee?+
Yes. The manufacturer's warranty on any new boiler (typically 7–10 years) is registered in your name before we leave site.
We also cover the streets next door to Plumstead.
Not in Plumstead itself? These are the neighbouring postcodes we cover on the same round. Or head back to our home page for the full service and area list, or straight to our contact form.
Ready to get it sorted in Plumstead properly?
Speak to Danny directly. Free written estimate, honest advice, and a fair fixed price. over 30 years on the tools in Plumstead and next door, we know what we’re looking at.
- Gas Safe registered #180521
- 4.9★ from 159 Google reviews
- Office 9am–9pm, 7 days a week
- This is our home postcode
- Covers SE18