Plumber in the Gare district

Most buildings in the district date from the late 19th or early 20th century. Toilets, kitchens and bathrooms on every floor drain into a shared stack, often still cast iron in its lower part, which runs down to the cellar before joining the sewer.

Over the years, bathrooms were added in former bedrooms and their pipes extended to reach the stack. These long, shallow runs block more easily. When the stack itself blocks, the lower flats overflow first.

• Water comes up on the ground floor or in the cellar when the upper floors use water: the stack is blocked further down. We clear it by high-pressure jetting up to 200 bar and check it with a camera if needed. See blocked drain.
• A water stain on the ceiling: the leak is usually in the flat above (hose, bath seal, toilet connector). We need access to the neighbour’s flat to find it. See water leak.
• The toilet drains slowly or gurgles in an older flat: an over-long or partly blocked branch pipe, before the stack. See blocked toilet.

If water comes up in your flat when the neighbours flush, stop using water and call us. The longer you wait, the more water reaches the cellar or ground floor.

The district has many restaurants, snack bars and shops on the ground floor. Kitchen grease sets in the waste pipes and gradually narrows them, both for the business and for the building’s stack.

We come before opening, after closing or during the night so you can open again. The invoice is itemised and can be in the company’s name. See blocked sink and our page for property managers and businesses.

In Gare, many flats are rented, often through an agency. When the problem is in a shared part of the building, the tenant needs to be able to show it to the landlord or the syndic.

We take before and after photos and write a report: where the blockage or leak was, what was done, and whether the shared stack was involved. Together with the itemised invoice, that is usually what the landlord, syndic or insurer asks for.

The district runs from the central station to the Pont Adolphe and the Plateau Bourbon, around Avenue de la Liberté and Avenue de la Gare, where the tram runs. Give us the street and a landmark: Place de Paris, Place de Metz, Rue de Strasbourg or Rue du Fort Neipperg. Tell us the floor, the name on the doorbell and, if access is through a courtyard, how to get in.

Neighbouring districts have their own page: the Ville-Haute across the Pétrusse valley, Hollerich, and Bonnevoie on the other side of the tracks. For the whole city, see plumber in Luxembourg City.

Halimi E. writes that the incident happened at midnight and the company could be reached straight away. Damiano C. describes our prices as honest and transparent. Reviews are shown in their original French.