Plumbers in Glasnevin: Local Plumbing & Heating in Dublin 9 & 11
Updated 11 June 2026 · DublinPlumbing
Glasnevin is solid, settled Dublin: tree-lined avenues of 1930s–1950s semis around Griffith Avenue and Mobhi Road, redbrick terraces towards Iona Road, and everything anchored by the Botanic Gardens and the cemetery walls. Many of these homes have been in the same families for decades — and so have their hot presses.
That makes Glasnevin classic territory for our Dublin plumbing team: honest repair work on systems that were built to last but are finally showing their age. We cover all of Dublin 9 and 11, 24/7, with no call-out fee.
The hot press generation
Walk into a Glasnevin hot press and you'll often find the original copper cylinder, an immersion heater that's been the household's backup hot water for forty years, and a timer everyone is slightly afraid to touch. It all works — until the immersion element burns out, the thermostat sticks, or the cylinder springs a pinhole leak that soaks the landing carpet.
We replace immersion elements and thermostats, swap tired cylinders for modern insulated ones (your heating bill notices the difference), and re-pipe hot presses so the next repair doesn't require emptying the linen shelf. Where families want mains-pressure showers, we'll talk through converting from the old gravity-fed tank system — honestly, including when it isn't worth it.
Heating that predates the thermostat
Plenty of houses off Ballymun Road and Botanic Avenue still run heating systems extended room by room since the 1970s. The symptoms are familiar: radiators cold at the bottom from sludge, one room that never heats, pipes that knock when the heating starts, and a boiler working overtime to push through it all.
A system power flush, new thermostatic valves, and rebalancing usually brings these systems back. Where the boiler itself is at end of life, our RGI-registered engineers handle the gas work legally and certify it — in Ireland it's actually illegal for anyone unregistered to work on a gas boiler.
Emergencies around Glasnevin
Burst pipe, attic tank overflowing, no water at all? We're across the northside daily — Hart's Corner to Glasnevin North, and over towards Whitehall — so emergency call-outs typically land within the hour, day or night.
While you wait: shut the stopcock under the kitchen sink (or the outdoor one at the boundary), open the cold taps to drain the system, and move anything valuable out from under the drip. Then call 01 524 0871 — no call-out fee, price agreed before work starts.
Straight talk on cost
Typical Dublin rates run €60–€120 an hour, with many firms charging call-out fees on top. We don't charge one anywhere in Glasnevin. You get an upfront price once we've seen the job, a 12-month guarantee on the work, and an engineer who'll tell you when a repair is the better value over a replacement.
For anything non-urgent — a slow drip, a radiator that needs moving, that immersion making strange noises — tell us what's wrong and a local plumber will call you back within minutes.