Emergency Plumber Temple Bar

It's half past ten on a Saturday, the bar is packed and the gents' urinal is blocked. Or the restaurant kitchen has lost its hot water just before service. Maybe water is dripping from the apartment above into the lounge. In Temple Bar, plumbing faults rarely happen at a quiet moment, which is why you need an emergency plumber in Temple Bar who picks up.

We cover every street in the quarter, from Dame Street and College Green down to Wellington Quay and Aston Quay. Pubs, bars, restaurants, cafés, hostels, hotels, venues, offices, shops and the people who live in the apartments above them are all welcome.

Describe the problem, and you'll receive our rates in writing before we head over.

CALL 085 816 7910

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar: Local and Fast

Temple Bar is a small area, but it's one of the most demanding places in Dublin for plumbing. Hardly anywhere else in the city packs so many toilets, kitchens and showers into so few streets, or uses them so hard, for so many hours a day.

Most of our calls here come from businesses. A broken toilet, a burst pipe or a failed water heater can close part of a venue within minutes, so speed matters.

We work around the quarter regularly. We know the lanes, the loading points and the typical building layouts, from Fleet Street and Crown Alley to Essex Street and Eustace Street.

In the van, we keep the parts these buildings go through fastest: toilet valves, tap cartridges, push-fit and compression fittings, and flexi hoses. As a result, a call-out often ends with the job done on the spot.

Old Warehouses and 1990s Buildings

Behind the pub signs, Temple Bar is a mix of very different buildings. Some are 18th- and 19th-century warehouses, print works and merchants' houses, many of them converted into bars, restaurants and flats. Others date from the regeneration of the 1990s, with apartments built above ground-floor units.

The older buildings often have plumbing added in stages over many decades. Pipes may run through old walls, under timber floors or along ceilings in ways that make little sense today. In these cases, tracing a leak takes patience, and it helps to understand how the building has changed over time.

The 1990s blocks bring their own issues. After thirty years, the original valves, flexible hoses and toilet parts are reaching the end of their life, and leaks between floors are common.

Along Dame Street, larger Victorian buildings house banks, offices, theatres and shops. The main stopcock usually sits in the basement, sometimes behind locked doors, so knowing who has the key matters.

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar for Pubs and Bars

Temple Bar's pubs are among the busiest in the country. On weekends, during festivals and on big match days, their toilets can be used thousands of times in one night.

That kind of use wears out plumbing fast. The calls we get most often from bars include:

• blocked urinals, or urinals that need replacing
• toilets that won't refill, overflow or leak at the base
• hand-wash taps that are loose, broken or dripping
• leaks under the bar or in the glass-wash area
• water supply problems in back-of-house and staff areas

Whenever possible, we fix the problem without closing the whole toilet block. For example, we can isolate a single urinal or cubicle and keep the others running while we work.

Beer lines and cellar cooling belong to your drinks supplier. However, the water pipes, sinks and toilets are what we're here for.

Late-Night and Weekend Call-Outs

Many Temple Bar bars and clubs stay open until the early hours. So, plumbing emergencies here often happen at night, just when most plumbers aren't answering.

Our phone stays on after dark, through the weekend and over bank holidays. When a pub loses its toilets at midnight on a Saturday, you need someone who'll come out, not a voicemail.

Late at night, driving into the city centre is also much quicker. With the day's traffic gone, we can often be with you faster than during the afternoon.

If the fault can be made safe and fixed properly the next morning, we'll tell you. That way, you pay the out-of-hours rate only when it's really necessary.

Night work is explained in more detail on the 24/7 emergency plumber page.

Kitchens in Restaurants, Cafés and Takeaways

The streets of Temple Bar are lined with restaurants, cafés, bakeries and takeaways, and every one of them needs hot water and working sinks to open.

In small kitchens, the plumbing is often squeezed into tight spaces under counters and behind equipment. So, when a hose splits or a tap fails, water can spread across the kitchen floor before anyone notices.

We repair and replace kitchen mixer taps, pre-rinse spray taps, hand-wash basins, undersink water heaters and the supply connections to dishwashers and prep sinks.

Where a restaurant has only one staff toilet or one customer toilet, a fault there can also cause problems with health and safety rules. Those calls therefore go to the top of our list.

If the repair needs a part we don't carry, we make everything safe first. Then we come back as soon as the part is in, ideally before your next service.

Café owners who open early can also book us before the doors open. In fact, many small repairs are easiest at seven in the morning, before staff arrive.

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar for Hostels and Hotels

Temple Bar has a large number of hostels, hotels and serviced apartments, many of them in converted older buildings.

Hostels with shared bathrooms see heavy use. Showers run from early morning until late at night, and toilets and basins rarely get a break. As a result, shower valves, electric showers, toilet valves and waste connections wear out quickly.

In buildings with rooms stacked above one another, a small leak from a shower tray or a toilet can soon show up in the room below. In that case, we trace it to the source, repair it and check the neighbouring fittings, so you can get the rooms back in use.

Short-term rental apartments in the area also call us when guests report no hot water, a running toilet or a leak. If the owner agrees, we'll sort out entry with the guest or whoever holds the keys.

Venues, Theatres, Cinemas and Galleries

Temple Bar is Dublin's cultural quarter. The Irish Film Institute, the Project Arts Centre, galleries, music venues and the Olympia Theatre on Dame Street all bring in big crowds.

For venues, the busy times are predictable: the hour before a show, the interval and the rush afterwards. A failed toilet or a leak in the washrooms at those moments is a real headache.

We repair toilets, taps and basins in public areas, dressing rooms and staff facilities, and we unblock or replace urinals. We can also replace worn valves across a whole washroom during the day, so problems don't appear on a performance night.

Venue managers often keep our number on file. That way, staff know who to call when something fails during an event. Having an emergency plumber in Temple Bar just a phone call away takes a lot of stress out of a busy night.

Dame Street and College Green

On the edge of Temple Bar, Dame Street and College Green are lined with banks, offices, shops, cafés and landmark buildings, with Trinity College just across the road.

Office plumbing here is usually simple, but faults still cause disruption. Common problems include leaking kitchenette taps, broken oversink water heaters, running toilets and leaks above suspended ceilings.

Larger buildings often have a facilities manager and rules for contractors. So, please tell us in advance about any sign-in, induction or permit to work, and we'll arrive ready.

Early starts, evenings and weekends suit offices best, because nobody is at their desk.

For the rest of the district, see our Dublin 2 emergency plumber page. For the shopping streets nearby, visit Grafton Street.

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar for Apartments

Hundreds of people live in Temple Bar, mostly in apartments above pubs, restaurants and shops.

Living above a busy business has one particular plumbing risk. A leak in your flat can flow straight into the bar or restaurant below. Equally, a fault downstairs may affect your supply. That's why speed matters for everyone in the building.

In many blocks, the water for each apartment is controlled from a shared cupboard, a riser or a plant room. If you don't know where yours is, ask the management company before you need it.

Some buildings also use a booster pump to get water to the upper floors. When it fails, top-floor flats lose pressure first. We then work out whether your own pipework or the building's pump is at fault.

More on pumps is on our pump repair page.

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar for Leaks and Burst Pipes

Close off the water first, at the nearest valve or the building's stopcock. After that, phone us and describe where it's appearing.

In Temple Bar's older buildings, water can travel a long way before it appears. It follows beams, pipes and cable routes, so a stain above a bar may come from a bathroom two floors up. We follow the water back to where it starts.

Once the damaged length is located, it's cut away and a new piece joined in. Then we turn the water back on and check the connections nearby.

During a cold spell, pipes in unheated storerooms, roof spaces and outside walls can also freeze and split.

See our burst pipe repair page for more.

Making a claim? We can put the damage and the repair in writing, with pictures.

Toilets, Urinals and Washrooms

Busy washrooms are the heart of most emergency calls in the quarter. Fill valves stick, flush valves let water trickle all night, and urinals block.

We carry the most common toilet parts. So, in most cases, we can repair the fault on the first visit. Cracked or worn-out toilets get replaced.

A constantly running toilet also wastes a great deal of water. For businesses paying for metered water, that cost adds up quickly, so it pays to call an emergency plumber in Temple Bar as soon as you hear it.

We also fix leaks from pan connectors, loose toilets and dripping hand-wash taps. If you'd like, we can check the whole washroom while we're there and point out anything close to failing.

Our toilet repairs page has more detail.

Taps, Water Heaters and Showers

Taps take a beating in bars, kitchens and hostels. We repair and replace mixer taps, spray taps, basin taps and push taps. We can bring a new tap if you'd like one, and there's usually a spare for emergencies. More on the tap repairs and replacement page.

Undersink and oversink water heaters are common in Temple Bar cafés, bars and offices. A leaking or cold unit gets fixed or swapped, as explained on the water heater page.

Hostels, hotels and apartments often have electric showers. We repair or replace them. Read about electric shower repair and replacement.

Gas appliances and boilers aren't part of what we do. Every other service is listed on the plumbing services page.

Glass Washers, Ice Machines and Coffee Machines

Many bar and café machines need their own water supply. Glass washers, dishwashers, ice machines and coffee machines are all connected to the plumbing by small valves and hoses.

These connections are a common source of leaks. A hose can split, a valve can seize, or a fitting can work loose from constant vibration.

We repair and replace the water supply to these machines, including isolation valves, hoses and connections. That way, the machine can be switched off and serviced safely.

Faults inside the machine itself are a job for the equipment supplier. However, if water is leaking from the pipe or valve behind it, that's our work.

A small, inexpensive service valve on every machine supply is a smart idea. Then, if a hose fails, staff can turn off that one machine without shutting down the whole bar. We can fit these valves during a routine visit, which often saves a call-out later.

Commercial Plumber in Temple Bar for B&Bs, Coffee Shops and Care Homes

Alongside the pubs and hostels, Temple Bar has guesthouses and B&Bs, coffee shops, galleries and the cultural centres around Meeting House Square. For every one of them, a commercial plumber who turns up at short notice keeps doors open.

In a coffee shop, the espresso machine feed, the undersink water heater and the single customer toilet carry the whole business. When any of them fails, we repair or replace it, often before the first morning rush.

Nursing homes and care residences in the surrounding city centre also call us, and their residents’ need for warm water and working bathrooms puts them at the front of the queue.

Management companies and building owners use us for shared risers, tank rooms and pump sets in the larger blocks. Where a basement plant room or pressure set is involved, we work as an industrial plumber.

Commercial storage water tank replacement is part of our work as well. Venues, hostels and apartment blocks with a tired or corroded tank can have it renewed, and old roof-void tanks above flats are replaced too.

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar for Residents and Tenants

Behind the nightlife, hundreds of residents live above the streets, and we look after them too. Domestic call-outs from owners and tenants in these residential flats are every bit as welcome as a call from a bar.

Many flats have a small water heater in a cupboard and a cold tank in the roof void. We repair leaking valves, failed immersions and stuck float valves, and our tank cleaning service handles tanks that need a clean.

Under sinks and baths, we renew dripping traps and cracked waste pipes. On the older warehouse conversions, damaged soil stacks are replaced, and new pipework goes in whenever a kitchen or bathroom is moved.

Basement and mezzanine toilets sometimes need a Saniflo. We install new units and clear blocked ones, although the motor itself is not something we repair.

Access, Parking and Getting to You

Much of Temple Bar is pedestrianised, with cobbled streets, narrow lanes and restricted vehicle access, especially in the evening.

To save time, please tell us when you call:

• the nearest street where a van can stop, such as Essex Quay, Fishamble Street or a loading bay
• which door to use, for example a side door, a lane entrance or a staff entrance
• any code, key or member of staff we should ask for
• the floor and precise spot where the problem is

Because access eats into the time on site, details like these help us start sooner.

Nearby, we also cover Dublin 2, Grafton Street, The Liberties and Dublin 8. Our full coverage is on the Emergency Plumber Dublin page.

Your Temple Bar Call-Out, Step by Step

Here's the order things happen in:

• Contact us with the address, a line about the fault and, ideally, a photo.
• Receive our rates as a WhatsApp, text or email message, along with an arrival time.
• Confirm with a quick reply, and we'll set off.
• On arrival, we stop the water and make the area safe.
• We repair the fault, usually with parts from the van.
• We clean up and tell you what we found and fixed.

Should a part need ordering, the premises stay safe in the meantime and we return when it's delivered.

Every call-out is handled by the same plumber from start to finish.

Rates, Estimates and Payment

Before travelling, we let you know our rates in writing, usually as an hourly rate.

If we know what the job involves, how to get in and where to park, we can often add an estimate. Keep in mind, though, that it's a guide rather than a fixed figure. Time spent on the job is what sets the final bill. In older buildings, corroded taps, valves and toilet parts can take far longer to remove than new ones take to fit.

Weekday office hours are the most affordable. Anything after hours, from late evening to Sunday or a bank holiday, costs more.

Payment:

• Residents and landlords: cash or card once we've finished, or a payment link
• Businesses: cash, card or bank transfer

We're fully insured, and we can provide a written report for your insurer on request.

What to Do Before We Arrive

These steps can stop a small problem becoming a big one:

• Stop the water: turn the small valve feeding the fitting or, failing that, the main stopcock. Older premises tend to hide it in a cellar or back room.
• Isolate machines: if a glass washer or ice machine is leaking, switch it off and close its supply valve.
• Keep people safe: close off a flooded washroom and keep customers away from wet floors.
• Mind the electrics: cut the power only if you can reach the board without touching anything wet.
• Warn neighbours: let whoever is underneath know, plus the landlord or manager.

If a ceiling is sagging with water, don't try to burst it. Instead, put a bucket underneath and keep everyone clear.

Uisce Éireann shares further tips on leaks and water saving.

Emergency Plumber Temple Bar FAQs

Do you come out late at night in Temple Bar?

We do. Whether it's 1am on a Saturday or a bank holiday afternoon, we answer, though out-of-hours rates apply.

Can you keep our toilets open while you work?

Usually, yes. We isolate the faulty toilet or urinal and keep the others working wherever possible.

Do you work on beer lines or cellar cooling?

No, those are for your drinks supplier. Our job is everything connected to the water: sinks, taps, toilets, urinals and pipes.

Is the price fixed?

Not usually. We send our hourly rates in writing first and, where possible, an estimate. What you pay in the end reflects the time on site.

Do you cover Dame Street and College Green?

Certainly. Both are part of our Temple Bar and Dublin 2 area, along with Fleet Street, Crown Alley, Essex Street and the quays.

Can you fix the water supply to our ice machine?

Yes. We repair and replace the valves, hoses and pipes that feed ice machines, glass washers and coffee machines.

Are you a commercial plumber for Temple Bar businesses?

Yes. Pubs, bars, restaurants, coffee shops, hotels, hostels, B&Bs, venues, galleries, care homes and management companies in Temple Bar all book our commercial and industrial plumbing service.

Do you install or unblock Saniflo toilets in Temple Bar?

We do both. Faulty motors and internal parts are outside our work.

Will you fix a boiler in a Temple Bar flat?

No. Boilers and gas appliances belong to a Registered Gas Installer; we handle the water side.

Our general FAQ page covers bookings, payment and insurance in more depth.