Plumber in Malahide

What's different about Malahide

What we checked before writing this page, each with its source:

• Malahide had 18,608 people at the 2022 census, up 12.4% from 16,550 in 2016. (Wikipedia: Malahide, citing CSO Census 2022 table F1015)
• In the Howth-Malahide local electoral area, which takes in Malahide, Portmarnock, Baldoyle, Sutton and Howth, 41% of occupied homes were built before 1980 and 84% of households live in a house rather than an apartment. (CSO Census 2022)
• In the same area, 68% of households heat with gas, 17% with oil and 10% with electricity. (CSO Census 2022)
• The village centre has period terraced houses; the estates around it were built from the 1960s on, starting with Ard na Mara in 1964. Seabury and The Hill are among the areas named on the town's bus routes. (Wikipedia: Malahide)
• Uisce Éireann has completed about 2.5 km of new water main between Swords and the Malahide Reservoir at Seamount, because the existing mains were operating beyond capacity and causing interruptions to supply. The wider Howth, Malahide and Balbriggan works upgraded over 14 km of mains in a €21.7 million investment. (Uisce Éireann)
• Malahide Eircodes start with K36, a routing key it shares with Donabate. (Eircode list)
• Malahide is 14 km north of Dublin city, at the Broadmeadow estuary. Its railway station opened on 25 May 1844 and is now a northern terminus of the DART. (Wikipedia: Malahide)

Two things follow for a Malahide house. If several houses on the road lose pressure together, it is likely the supply, not your pipes: Uisce Éireann posts updates on water.ie. And in the village's older terraces, ask the plumber what your supply pipe and internal pipework are made of before any work on a leak.

What a plumber costs in Malahide

None of the 137 prices on this site comes from a plumber based in Malahide, so these come from Dublin plumbers' rate cards, checked 24 October 2026. A weekday hour costs €95–€148 including VAT, median €117. Out of hours, labour runs €115–€260 an hour. The nearest published rate card is The Dublin Plumber in Melrose Park, Swords, which charges €120 an hour on weekdays, including VAT, with no call-out charge (source). Dublin Plumber 24hrs lists Malahide among the north Dublin areas it covers (source) and says replacing a tap typically costs €120 to €250 on its Swords page (source).

Immersions, toilets, taps, showers, radiators and boilers

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The jobs Malahide houses send

• Immersions and cylinders. Houses from the first estates are old enough that the hot water cylinder, its immersion and the thermostat are common replacements. Published prices to replace an immersion element run €150–€300.
• Running toilets and dripping taps. A part, not a new suite, in most cases. Toilet repairs run €65–€230; fixing a dripping tap €40–€150. See toilet, tap and shower repairs.
• Showers and pumps. A pump that cycles on and off is often a small leak it's working to make up for. A new shower or pressure pump runs €750–€1,350 supplied and fitted.
• Radiators and heating. 68% of households in the area heat with gas and 17% with oil. Radiators and heating pumps are plumber's work; anything on the gas boiler itself is RGI-only.
• Blocked drains. Village drains are older and longer than estate drains. See blocked drains.

Leaks: turn it off first

The stopcock is usually under the kitchen sink, or in the older village houses near where the supply comes in at the front. Turn it off, then send the job: see what to do in a plumbing emergency and the out-of-hours rates, which run €136–€284 for the call-out alone.

Sending a job from Malahide

Pick the job, put Malahide and your estate or Eircode in the form, and say what's happening in your own words. One plumber who covers Malahide gets it, rings you, and gives you a price before anything starts. For a yearly gas or oil boiler service, our sister site has a guide to boiler servicing in Swords, with what the engineers who cover Swords publish.

Malahide questions