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General plumbing products for UK homes and trade: water softeners and filtration, pipe and fittings, pumps, tools, isolation and control valves, leak and blockage kit.

Everything here is written by Nick Jolliffe, who spent 16 years running plumbers merchants across the south of the UK and a couple more with an independent merchant. Standing behind a trade counter shows you the part of a product’s life that reviews never cover: what comes back and how quickly, what the fitters ask for by name, what they will not touch at any price, and what the trade price actually is, so you can tell a real deal from a marked-up one.

One person writes this site, not a team, and I am not a plumber. Nothing is paid for by a manufacturer. Where a cheaper product does the same job, the cheaper one gets the recommendation. If something here is out of date or no longer available, tell me and I will fix it.