Emergency Plumber Sligo — 14 Common Questions Answered

You speak directly to Arek Olczak of SOS Property Services Sligo, based in Sligo Town, never a call-centre middleman.

Emergency callouts across Sligo Town, Strandhill, Rosses Point, Collooney, Ballysadare and Drumcliffe typically take 15 to 35 minutes.

Turn the brass mains water stopcock clockwise under your kitchen sink, switch off the electric immersion and boiler, and turn the red wheel-head gate valves in your hot press clockwise to stop the attic tank feeding the leak.

Standard weekday daytime callouts (8am to 6pm) are €90 to €140 including diagnosis and the first hour's fault-finding; evening and Saturday callouts are €135 to €195, and Sunday or night rates are agreed upfront on the phone.

Open both the cold and hot bath taps fully so the attic cold storage tank drains safely down the bath waste pipe instead of coming through your ceiling while we are on the way.

Yes. We isolate the cold feed from the attic tank, syphon-drain the leaking copper cylinder safely outside with a hose, cap the feeds so you keep cold mains water at the kitchen tap, and fit a replacement insulated cylinder.

Yes. Bleeding an airlocked oil line after a kerosene delivery, cleaning the inline fuel filter bowl and resetting the Riello burner is a single-visit job.

When the copper sheath on an old immersion element corrodes through inside the cylinder, water touches the live heating coil and trips the RCD or MCB on your consumer unit; replacing the dual immersion element and thermostat fixes it.

Yes. The van carries 6-metre central heating circulating pumps, 2-port motorised zone valves, dual immersion elements, brass stopcocks, lever ball valves and 15mm to 28mm copper and Qualpex fittings.

Yes. We clear blocked toilets and internal waste pipes using professional closet augers and kinetic water rams, and replace faulty cistern fill valves or syphons on the spot.

Unheated holiday homes left without pipe lagging over freezing winter nights suffer ice expansion in 15mm copper attic elbows and exposed outdoor oil boiler pipes.

Water hammer happens when high-pressure mains water stops suddenly against a worn stopcock jumper washer, loose pipe clip or faulty toilet fill valve.

Yes. We cover all 18 towns across County Sligo as well as the N16 Manorhamilton and N15 Bundoran border corridors.

No. You never pay a call-centre booking fee; you speak straight to Arek on 085 708 8979 and agree the callout rate before he sets off.