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Our latest news, plus advice on how to keep your heating and plumbing in perfect working order
Underfloor heating: when is it right for your home?
With the hottest bank holiday on record behind us we are all looking forward to some warm weather, finally. So we are pretty sure that the last thing on your mind right now is your home’s central heating system. But this is the best time to be thinking about it,
How to spot a good boiler engineer
It is official, spring has arrived! That cold spell over the long Easter weekend had to be the last one of this year, surely? Whether it is or not, your boiler has worked very hard this year keeping you warm during numerous ‘beasts from the East’ and kept your hot
Proactive management of leaks
It is inevitable that at some point in the life of your home’s plumbing, something will go wrong. Natural wear and tear, regular use, temperature fluctuations, and changes in pressure all conspire to put pressure on our plumbing systems. The trick is to be alert to any changes and
Dealing with a broken boiler
It’s just another Tuesday morning and it is still cold and icy outside, but this time you wake up to a home that is not as warm as it should be. In fact, it feels positively freezing. And there isn’t any hot water. It is every home owner’s nightmare:
Regulating sludge in central heating systems
You have no doubt turned on your heating by now as we have already been seeing some rather cold weather with more to come. Perhaps you have turned it on and found that it’s not heating up as well? Or maybe you vented it and found that it had some
The importance of regular maintenance to your boiler
According to the Energy Saving Trust a boiler is the most common way of heating our homes in the UK. Increasingly, combi boilers are used as older boilers are replaced as they are efficient and provide hot water on demand as well as powering a home’s central heating system. Most
Top tips to keep your pipes clear and avoid blockages
In today’s fast-paced world, we rely on convenient and quick solutions to help us get through the day and get everything that we need to do done. But in some ways, convenience is storing up problems for us in the longer run – the latest ‘fatberg’ found in east London
Three signs your boiler is a death trap
A CO2 leak from your boiler could kill within hours, yet despite this many homeowners forget at least one of their annual services in their boiler’s lifetime. If you can’t remember when you last had yours serviced, you could soon become one of the annual 4,000 people who are admitted
Tackling the top five boiler problems
Every 20 seconds a boiler somewhere in the UK comes to a noisy, grinding halt – leaving property inhabitants cold, unwashed and seriously out of out of luck. Whilst you may automatically reach for the phone to call in the plumbers pronto, it may be a simple problem that could
How to spot a trusted plumber
We’d love to say that our trade is one free from unscrupulous tricksters, but that would simply be a lie. As with all industries, ours is one where cowboys do exist – and they can seem indistinguishable from the real McCoy unless you have a few well-placed insider tips
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