Pimlico Plumbers
Pimlico Plumbers is one of London's largest and longest-running plumbing outfits, covering plumbing, electrical, heating, carpentry, drainage and roofing work from a Vauxhall base with a fleet big enough to run 24-hour callouts across Central London. It's the name most Londoners already know, and its scale means it can staff multi-trade jobs, like a full kitchen fit-out with electrics and appliance testing, that smaller plumbers would have to subcontract. That same scale, and volume of jobs, is also why it has the widest spread of reviews of anyone on this list.
What people praise
- Handles multi-trade jobs (plumbing plus electrical plus carpentry) under one company
- 24-hour callout availability across Central London
- Long-term customers describe it as their default for repeat home projects
- Engineers respond in writing to disputes, even when customers disagree with the outcome
Worth knowing
- Multiple reviewers describe disputes over quoted minimum charges and what a job scope actually included, worth getting the full scope and price confirmed in writing before work starts
- As a large operation, response and workmanship experiences vary more between reviewers than at the smaller firms on this list
Our take: Pimlico ranks first here on sheer volume and track record, 6,116 reviews is more than the next four combined, but its 4.0 rating trails every other business on this page. We rank it #1 on proven scale and reach, not on being the most consistently loved. For a straightforward, smaller job, the plumbers below often score higher.
