Inside Charlie Mullins’ £10m London penthouse with £180k piano
may be the self-styled “most famous plumber in the world” but after just five minutes in his company, we realise there’s a lot more to him than his ability to fix a leaky pipe and service a boiler. The 70-year-old businessman made headlines back in 2021 when he sold Pimlico Plumbers, the company he’d started at the age of 27, for a whopping £145 million.
His is a classic rags-to-riches tale. Having spent his early years in Camden, north London, “back when it was a dump”, he moved to the Rockingham council estate in Elephant and Castle. By the age of 10, he was bunking off school to help a local plumber, Bill. Charlie, who got paid 10p a day, says he worked in big houses, “the likes of which I’d never been in before”, and this undoubtedly inspired him to work hard and make something of himself. Fast-forward a few years and an ambitious Charlie, who left school at 15 without any qualifications, had set up Pimlico Plumbers in a London estate agent’s basement.
Charlie admits that, as a child, he would never have dreamt that he could live somewhere like this. “Never in a million years, blimey. Even now it’s hard to believe,” he says. The loved-up pair have just finished doing our photoshoot and proud Charlie then proceeds to give us a guided tour of his luxury home, and tells us his favourite thing is the view from their bedroom, where he can watch the boats on the Thames go by. “It’s quite busy on the river,” he tells us. “It’s very peaceful.”
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