Burst pipe in a tower at Les Olympiades or a drain backing up in a Butte-aux-Cailles house? Call an English-speaking plumber, 24/7 — and we'll send a vetted local pro to your door.
Few arrondissements show off two faces as starkly as the 13th. Step out of Place d'Italie and you're surrounded by 1970s tower blocks — Les Olympiades, Italie 13, the slabs along Avenue de Choisy. Walk ten minutes uphill and you're in the Butte-aux-Cailles, a near-village of cobbled lanes and small old houses. When water is pouring through a ceiling in either, the last thing you want is to explain a burst pipe over the phone in French.
Emergency Plumber Paris is an English-speaking dispatch line covering the whole 13th arrondissement. You call, you explain the problem in plain English, and we send a vetted independent plumber who works in the area — with the price agreed before anyone picks up a wrench.
What makes the 13th unusual for plumbers is the sheer contrast of pipework sitting side by side. The high-rises around Les Olympiades and Tolbiac were built in the boom years with shared risers (colonnes montantes) feeding dozens of flats and strong pressure pushed up to the top floors — while the little houses of the Butte-aux-Cailles often run on ageing lead and copper pipes laid decades ago. The jobs we're called to most often here include:
Turn off the water at the stopcock (robinet d'arrêt) — usually under the sink or by the meter — then call us. In a Les Olympiades tower a leak runs straight down the shared riser to your neighbours, so stopping the flow protects several flats at once. We'll prioritise it.
The 13th is well-stitched into the métro and RER network, which works in your favour. Place d'Italie is a busy interchange for lines 5, 6 and 7, and the elevated line 6 carries you out towards Nationale and Chevaleret; line 7 runs down through the Quartier Asiatique along Avenue de Choisy and Avenue d'Ivry to Tolbiac and Porte d'Italie. Along the river, RER C stops at the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand. Whether you're in a tower at Les Olympiades, up in the Butte-aux-Cailles, or near the big library, we dispatch the nearest available pro — usually within the hour, day or night.
Water where it shouldn't be? We help you stop the flow and send a plumber fast. Burst pipes & leaks →
A sink or shower that won't drain, or a bad smell. Blocked drain →
A toilet that won't flush or is overflowing, made right fast. Blocked toilet →
Tell us where you are in the 13th and what's happening — in your own words.
We match you with a vetted 13th-arrondissement plumber and confirm the price up front.
The plumber finds the problem, stops the water and puts it right.
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