Areas we cover in Bristol

BS8

Clifton

For a plumber in Clifton, look for someone used to tall Georgian and Regency houses split into flats, where a leak in one flat shows up in the ceiling below.

BS6

Redland

Redland is mostly large Victorian villas and terraces, many split into flats, on tree lined streets.

BS7

Bishopston and Horfield

Bishopston and Horfield are rows of Victorian and Edwardian terraces off Gloucester Road, with plenty of rented homes.

BS9

Henleaze and Westbury on Trym

Henleaze and Westbury on Trym are mostly 1920s and 1930s semis and detached houses, plus Edwardian streets and the old village core.

BS3

Bedminster and Southville

Bedminster and Southville are packed with Victorian terraces, so a plumber here often finds lead supply pipes, shared drains running behind several houses and bathrooms leaking into the kitchen below.

BS4

Totterdown and Knowle

Totterdown's painted Victorian terraces cling to some of Bristol's steepest streets, and Knowle has large interwar estates and semis.

BS4

Brislington

Brislington mixes Victorian and Edwardian houses near the Bath Road and Arnos Vale with interwar semis further out.

BS5

Easton

Easton is tight Victorian terraces in Pennant stone and brick, many rented.

BS16

Fishponds

Fishponds has Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Fishponds Road and interwar homes towards Stapleton and Staple Hill.

BS15

Kingswood

Kingswood sits in South Gloucestershire on Bristol's east side, with Victorian Pennant stone terraces near the High Street and large areas of interwar and post war semis.

BS31

Keynsham

Keynsham is in Bath and North East Somerset, between Bristol and Bath, with older stone houses in the town centre, large 1950s to 1970s estates and newer homes at Somerdale on the old Fry's factory site.

BS32

Bradley Stoke

Bradley Stoke was built from 1987, so its homes are now old enough for second and third boilers, worn cylinder valves and leaking push fit joints.