Fontanería Pernia

Fontanería Pernia works out of Calle Moriles, and it is the plumber I put at the top of this trade with the least hesitation of any ranking on this site. A 4.9 held over more than a hundred reviews is more than double the backing of anyone else here, and the firm runs its own website, which in a trade where the competition is usually a mobile number and nothing else counts for a lot.

It covers air conditioning as well as plumbing, and those two go together here for a reason worth understanding if you own a flat in the town. An air unit touches the drain and the electrical panel, so it rarely travels alone. One company can take a bathroom refit, a heated towel rail or a heat pump without you booking two trades that then blame each other.

What I would say to a foreign owner before calling

Ask two things on the phone, in this order: what the callout costs and whether there is a surcharge for the hour. The Spanish for the callout charge is el desplazamiento, and asking for it by name changes the conversation. Then ask for a presupuesto, a written quote, before any work that is not an emergency. None of this is distrust, it is simply how the trade is transacted in Spain, and the thirty seconds it takes is where almost every later argument would have come from.

One more thing that catches people out. A burst pipe in a holiday flat on the coast is a common call in August, and August is also when everyone here is working flat out. If your property sits empty half the year, get a plumber's number into your phone before you need it rather than searching for one at nine at night with the water running.