Residential
Clifton Villa, full re-plumb
A complete hidden re-plumb of a six-bedroom villa — every run drawn, labelled, and photographed before the walls closed.
We don't just fix leaks. We design, build, and restore the hidden systems a home depends on — with the precision of engineers and the care of craftsmen. (*and workshop, and hotel, and chapel.)
Every home is a working machine. Tap the numbered points on the section drawing to see how we design, install, and maintain each system.
Ray Cobb starts repairing heritage lead and copper work for Bristol's Georgian terraces, one commission at a time.
— RAY COBB, SITE NOTEBOOK, P.114
Heating engineer Marie Waters brings hydronic design in-house. The firm starts drawing every system before touching a pipe.
We move into a converted pattern-maker's workshop and formalise the studio practice: survey, drawing, specification, build. Every project leaves with a bound set of as-built drawings — most clients frame page one.
Eleven engineers, two apprentices, and a plan chest full of drawings — still taking on the jobs other firms call "too fiddly."
Hover any project for the engineer's numbers.
A complete hidden re-plumb of a six-bedroom villa — every run drawn, labelled, and photographed before the walls closed.
Conservation-approved replacement of Victorian lead work, routed invisibly through original joinery.
Book-matched stone, a rain ceiling, and pressure-balanced brass work — plumbing as furniture.
Steam, water, and drainage for three working bakeries — installed overnight around live production.
Rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, and drain-water heat recovery for a working smallholding.
Burst mains, failed cylinders, rising damp at midnight. One number reaches a duty engineer — not an answering service — every hour of the year.
Emergency Line — 0117 946 2210 ← Move across the water →"They drew the whole heating system before quoting. When the boiler went in, it matched the drawing to the millimetre. Never seen anything like it from a trade."
"A pipe burst behind our shop counter on a Saturday night. Their engineer arrived in forty minutes, isolated it, and we opened on Sunday as usual."
"Our 1840s house needed everything replaced without losing a single cornice. They treated it like restoration work, because to them it was."
Describe the building and the brief. A partner — not a call centre — replies within one working day with next steps and a survey date.
The Drawing Rooms, 3 Foundry Yard, Bristol BS1 6QS
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