Burst pipe or flooding
A split pipe in a wall or ceiling can soak a room in minutes and the damage keeps climbing until the water stops.
Do this first: close the main stop tap at your water meter, then call.
Call 021 555 0147Burst pipe? We pick up the phone.
Cape Rapid Plumbing is an owner run emergency plumbing business working across Cape Town. Water off, damage stopped, repair done properly the first time. Call the emergency line and you speak to a plumber, not an answering service.
What is happening right now?
Find your situation below, do the one thing listed under it, then call. Those first two minutes decide how much damage you are paying to repair afterwards.
Blocked drain or sewage backing up
Water rising in a shower or a gully outside usually means the blockage is downstream of the fitting, not in it.
Do this first: stop using every toilet, basin and washing machine on that line.
Call 021 555 0147No hot water or a leaking geyser
A geyser that drips into the ceiling is usually days away from failing completely, so it is worth acting the same day.
Do this first: switch the geyser off at the DB board and close the isolator valve above it.
Call 021 555 0147No water or pressure suddenly gone
If the taps have dropped off across the whole house, it is often a failed pressure control valve or a leak underground.
Do this first: check whether your neighbours still have water, then call and tell us.
Call 021 555 0147Emergency work is most of it. It is not all of it.
The same vans that come out at 2am do the planned work too, from a leaking mixer to a full re-pipe. Everything is priced before it starts. Every card below opens the full detail.
Burst pipes and urgent leaks
Isolate the supply, expose the failure, replace the damaged section in copper or PEX, then pressure test before we close anything up.
Emergency and urgent repairs
Geyser repair and replacement
Elements, thermostats, safety valves and drip trays, or a full swap out with the compliance paperwork included.
Geysers and hot water
Blocked drains and sewer lines
Rodding and high pressure jetting for kitchen, bathroom and main sewer lines, plus a camera survey when a blockage keeps coming back.
Drains and sewer lines
Leak detection
Acoustic and pressure testing to find a hidden leak under a slab or in a wall, so we open up one spot instead of guessing at three.
Leaks, pressure and re-piping
Bathroom and kitchen plumbing
Toilets and cisterns, taps and mixers, basins, baths, showers and appliance connections, fitted and sealed properly.
Bathrooms, kitchens and fittingsCommercial and compliance
Maintenance for restaurants, guesthouses, body corporates and offices, plus plumbing Certificates of Compliance for property transfers.
Commercial and body corporate12yrs
on the tools in Cape Town
2 400+
emergency callouts answered
9/10
urgent jobs finished on the first visit
26+
suburbs covered from Salt River
Four steps, no mystery
Most people phoning a plumber at night have never done it before. Here is exactly what happens after you dial.
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You call and a plumber answers
Day or night, the emergency line rings a person who can actually help, not a voicemail box or a booking service.
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We talk you through making it safe
Before anything else we tell you what to switch off or close. Very often that alone stops the damage from spreading.
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You get an arrival window and a price
You hear the callout fee and a realistic arrival window up front. If a part has to be sourced in the morning, we say so.
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We repair, test and clean up
The repair gets pressure tested, the site gets cleaned, and you get an itemised invoice plus a Certificate of Compliance where one applies.
A small crew that answers to the person who owns the van
Cape Rapid Plumbing is deliberately small. The plumber who answers the phone is the plumber who quotes the job and the plumber whose name is on the invoice. When something is not right, there is no department to be transferred to.
We work on homes, guesthouses, restaurants and body corporate buildings across Cape Town, and we do the boring parts properly: shoes off inside, drop sheets down, the old fittings taken away with us.
More about the business
Cape Town and the surrounding suburbs
If your suburb is not on this list, call anyway. We travel further for emergencies and will tell you honestly if someone closer would reach you faster.
- City Bowl
- Sea Point
- Green Point
- Camps Bay
- Woodstock
- Salt River
- Observatory
- Rondebosch
- Claremont
- Newlands
- Kenilworth
- Wynberg
- Constantia
- Tokai
- Muizenberg
- Fish Hoek
- Pinelands
- Athlone
- Milnerton
- Table View
- Blouberg
- Goodwood
- Parow
- Bellville
- Durbanville
- Brackenfell
What your customers say
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Water where it should not be?
Call now and we will tell you what to shut off before we have even hung up.