Shortstown was built from scratch in 1917 to house the airship workers of Cardington, so its housing is a real mix of eras. Shortstown sits in a hard water area, which means limescale build-up is a fact of life. It shortens the lifespan of taps, clogs up valves, and gradually reduces water flow through older copper pipes. Its effects show daily in properties across the town. For dealing with hard water at source — softeners, filters, and reverse osmosis — see the water treatment page.
We cover the village and the parishes around the airfield, from the old garden-village streets out to New Cardington and Wixams. Whether you're in one of the original 1920s Shortstown houses built for the airship station, or a newer property on Wixams with modern plastic plumbing, your plumber will diagnose the actual problem and fix it properly. No unnecessary upselling — if a new washer sorts it, that's what we'll do.
As a local team, we know the original Short Brothers cottages as well as the brand-new estates that have grown around them. Shortstown itself is the kind of place where most plumbing jobs sit somewhere between the historic and the modern. Your plumber works on the original 1920s houses built for the Cardington airship station that still have original copper or even iron supply pipes hidden behind the plaster. Your plumber works on the later estates where the original copper has reached the end of its design life and is starting to fail at solder joints. And your plumber works on the newer plots out toward Wixams and Fenlake where the modern plastic systems look perfect on day one but throw up snagging issues from poorly-finished push-fit work. Whatever's gone wrong, your plumber will diagnose and fix it — not just paper over it.
