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Vince Finlay, Northampton plumber
No. 04 · Founder
No. 01About

It’s me,
Vince.

“I do the work. I show up. I clean up after.”

One man. One van. Same number every time. The plumber I’d want in my own home.

No. 02The story

How I got here.

I qualified at nineteen, working out of a small Northampton firm. Six years there, then two more at a bigger outfit that did everything from emergency call-outs to full bathroom installs. The whole time, the same thing kept happening: customers telling me they hadn’t felt looked-after by their last plumber.

Sometimes it was the price changing on the day. Sometimes it was nobody picking up the phone for two days. Sometimes it was the small things — dirty boots on a cream carpet, a mess left in the kitchen, a job half-done because they had to rush to the next call.

I went out on my own to fix that. One van, one number, one promise: same person every time, fixed price written down, and if anything goes wrong on my watch I come back free. That’s how my own home would be done — so that’s how I do it for everyone else.

Vince's hands working a copper pipe cutter — the craft

Eight years

Hands that know the work

No. 03The van

One van.
One number.

No subcontractors. No sending the apprentice. The white Ford Transit you recognise outside your house is mine — and the kit inside is what gets 80% of jobs done first visit.

Finlay's Plumbing van on a Northampton residential street

Outside

Branded · same vehicle every visit

Spotted on every NN1-7 street. JS monogram on the side, ‘FINLAY’S PLUMBING’ wordmark, blue accent. Easy to recognise, hard to fake.

Inside of the work van — organised parts bins and pipework

Inside

Stocked, sorted, labelled

Copper lengths, fittings by size, isolation valves, a Vaillant repair kit. No wasted trips to the merchant mid-job.

Pristine plumbing tool flat-lay

The kit

Looked after — like the work

Tools you take care of are tools that don’t fail mid-job. Same attitude carries over to your pipework.

No. 04A typical call

Arrive.
Fix. Explain. Leave clean.

On the way

Step 01

On the way

WhatsApp triage first. Photo, voice-note diagnosis, ETA confirmed before I pull off the drive.

At your door

Step 02

At your door

Booked by 9am, in your home by 1pm. Boot covers on. Floor protection down before tools come out.

Handover

Step 03

Handover

I walk you through what I did + show the pressure-test on the way out. Cert + receipt emailed within the hour.

No. 05Credentials

The paperwork.

8
years on the tools
NN1-7
postcodes covered
£2m
public liability
100%
fixed-price

WaterSafe

Approved Plumber Scheme.

Verify at watersafe.org.uk. Standard most plumbers skip. I keep it active.

G3 Unvented

Building Regs Part G3.

Certified to install, service and repair unvented (pressurised) hot water cylinders. Without G3 a plumber can’t legally touch one.

£2m insured

Public liability cover.

Every job covered for £2 million public liability. Certificate available on request, before any work starts.

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WaterSafe
Approved
02
G3 Unvented
Building Regs
03
£2m
Public Liability
04
5.0★
Google reviews

Reviews

Real names. Real jobs.

5.0★★★★★
24 Google reviews
Verified Google review★★★★★
Thank you to Vince who was so professional and supportive. He knew exactly what he was doing. No job too small. He arranged time to suit my needs.
AAneesa Ahmed— Verified Google review
★★★★★

Great service, promptly provided. Vince was able to quickly identify the problem with our toilet system and repaired it during his visit. He explained the job clearly.

D
D. Spreag
Verified Google review
★★★★★

Vince was fantastic — fitted a new dishwasher after years of pain, and reinstalled a radiator which had become detached from our wall. My wife and I couldn't be happier.

J
James Rowe
Verified Google review
★★★★★

Burst pipe at 7am. Vince was here by 11. Quoted £165, paid £165. Fixed in an hour, cleaned up the kitchen properly. Will call him every time.

S
Sarah K.
Verified Google review

See all 24 reviews on Google

Now you know me.
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