What Indrit does
Six headings. One pair of hands.
Plumbing, bathrooms, heating, hot water, leaks and drains — plus emergencies around the clock. No department numbers and no handovers: the plumber who quotes the work is the plumber who does it. Based in Harpenden, covering Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.
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Plumbing repairs & pipework
The bread and butter, and the reason most people ring in the first place. Leaks traced and stopped, failed pipework cut out and replaced, pipe fitting and alterations for kitchens, bathrooms and appliances, seized and dripping taps put right, and the routine maintenance that stops small faults becoming expensive ones. Being a one-man company means the small jobs get the same attention as the big ones — there is no minimum value below which you become an inconvenience.
Bathroom installation & refurbishment
First Plumbing fits complete bathrooms: strip-out, first-fix pipework, the fitting itself, and the final connections and testing. Refurbishments where the layout works and only the suite is tired, and straightforward repairs where one item has failed. Kitchen plumbing sits in the same bracket — sinks, taps, waste runs and appliance connections. Paul Rayburn's Google review covers two bathrooms done back to back, which is the honest measure of whether someone can be trusted with the room your whole household depends on.
Heating, radiators & underfloor
Heating work runs from the single cold radiator to a complete system. Radiators and thermostatic radiator valves fitted, moved, repaired and replaced; power flushing where years of sludge have collected in the bottom of the panels and along the pipework; underfloor heating installed and repaired; and upgrades to an existing system rather than a wholesale replacement where a repair is genuinely the right answer. Fahim Patel had a full central heating system put in from scratch — his words were professionally, promptly, and at very short notice.
Showers, taps & hot water
Everything between the mains and the outlet. Showers installed and repaired, including electric showers, which are their own small discipline; water heaters and hot water cylinders; tank repair and maintenance; shower and system pumps fitted or replaced when the flow upstairs has never been right; water filters; and tap repairs, from a worn washer to a full replacement. If your hot water is fine downstairs and hopeless in the loft conversion, this is the section that fixes it.
Leaks, blockages & drains
Water leak detection first, because a stain on a ceiling is almost never directly beneath the leak — the job is finding the actual failure before anything gets cut open. Then the blockages: baths, sinks, toilets and drains cleared, drain repairs where a run has cracked or collapsed, and new drainage where there was none. Garden taps and outside supplies sit here too — the fitting everybody wants in May and nobody thinks about in November.
Emergency plumber, 24 hours
Things fail at inconvenient times. First Plumbing Ltd lists itself as open around the clock, every day, for the faults that genuinely cannot wait: a burst or leaking pipe you cannot get under control, a total loss of water or heating, a toilet out of action in a one-bathroom house, a drain backing up into the house. The business's published standard emergency call-out charge starts at £65. Before you ring, get the water off at the stopcock — there is a step-by-step checklist on this site for exactly what to do while you wait. If you can smell gas, ring 0800 111 999 first, not a plumber.
The full list
Broken down, job by job.
Those six headings cover a lot of ground between them. Here is the full list of what that means in practice — every service First Plumbing offers, grouped so you can find yours. If your job isn't on it, ring anyway: it is usually a variation on something that is.
Plumbing & pipework
All domestic plumbing works — the repairs, alterations and maintenance that keep a house running.
Plumbing repairs
General domestic repairs across the whole system, from supply to waste.
Pipe fitting
Supply and waste pipework run, altered and re-routed for kitchens, bathrooms and appliances.
Tap repair
Dripping, stiff and seized taps repaired or replaced — mixers, pillar taps and monoblocs.
Bathroom & kitchen plumbing
Sinks, basins, baths, WCs and appliance connections plumbed in properly.
Garden taps
Outside taps fitted to an existing supply, with an isolation valve indoors.
Bathrooms
New bathroom installations, refurbishments and repairs — the room where workmanship shows.
New bathroom installation
Complete bathrooms from strip-out to final connections and testing.
Bathroom refurbishment
A tired suite replaced where the layout already works, with minimum disruption.
Bathroom repairs
One failed item put right rather than a whole room ripped out.
Shower installation & repair
Mixer and electric showers installed, swapped and repaired.
Electric showers
Electric shower units replaced and fault-found — flow, temperature and pressure.
Heating & hot water
Heating installations, upgrades and repairs — radiators, valves, flushing, underfloor and hot water.
Heating installation
Full central heating systems installed, including from scratch in a house that had none.
Heating repairs & upgrades
Existing systems diagnosed, repaired and improved rather than replaced by default.
Radiator installation & repair
Radiators fitted, moved, repaired and replaced as part of heating work or on their own.
Thermostatic radiator valves
TRVs installed and repaired so each room can be controlled separately.
Power flushing
Sludge and magnetite flushed out of a system that has gone cold at the bottom.
Underfloor heating
Underfloor heating installed and repaired, including zones that have stopped responding.
Thermal dynamics
Balancing a system so heat actually reaches the far end of it instead of stopping at the first radiator.
Water heaters
Water heaters and hot water cylinders supplied, fitted and repaired.
Water supply, leaks & drains
Mains, leaks, pumps, filters and drainage — the half of the system nobody thinks about until it fails.
Water mains
Mains supply work — a specialism of the business, from poor pressure to full replacement runs.
Water leak detection
Hidden leaks traced to the actual failure before anything gets cut open.
Water pumps
Shower and system pumps installed, replaced and repaired where flow has never been right.
Water tanks
Cold water tanks repaired and maintained, and replaced when they are past it.
Water filters
Filtration fitted and serviced on the incoming supply or at the tap.
Blocked baths, sinks, toilets & drains
Blockages cleared, and the cause identified so it does not simply come back.
Drain repair
Cracked, sunken and failing drain runs repaired.
New drains
New drainage installed where an extension, a new bathroom or an outbuilding needs it.
Emergency plumber service
Listed as available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for faults that cannot wait.
What you can hold Indrit to
Three promises, and no small print.
The name in the reviews is the name at your door
Read First Plumbing's Google reviews and one word keeps coming back: Indrit. Not a call centre, not a rota of subcontracted vans — the person who quotes your job is the person who turns up, does it, and is still the person you ring afterwards if something needs a second look.
A real limited company you can look up in thirty seconds
First Plumbing Ltd is company number 14582300 at Companies House, incorporated on 10 January 2023 and active, with Indrit Dara as its sole director. That is a matter of public record — check it before you let anyone into your house, here or anywhere else.
No badge wall, because badges are easy to print
You will not find a row of accreditation logos on this site. The business describes itself as fully insured, and the honest way to test that is to ask for the certificate on the doorstep — the same way you should ask any engineer for a Gas Safe ID card before they touch a gas appliance. Ask. Nobody legitimate minds.
Free quotations. One plumber from first visit to final test. Listed as open 24 hours, seven days a week.
No accreditation logos are printed on this page, because a logo on a web page proves nothing. What is printed instead is a number you can check: First Plumbing Ltd, Companies House no. 14582300, incorporated 10 January 2023. Ask for the insurance certificate on the doorstep too — and ask any engineer for a Gas Safe ID card before they touch a gas appliance.
Not sure which one you need?
Describe the fault or send a photo. Indrit will tell you what's involved, what it's likely to take, and whether it's something you can sort out yourself without paying anyone.