Where we work
Plumber and heating engineer in Loughton
Larger houses on the forest edge, and a lot of hot water to move around.
- Over 10 years in the trade, WRAS, G3 and heat pump qualified
- A price before anything starts
- Send a photo of the fault and we will know what to bring
Big houses, long pipe runs
Loughton runs to substantial detached and semi detached housing, a good deal of it extended, and the heating complaint that comes with a large extended house is always the same: the far end never gets warm.
That is a balancing and pipe-sizing question rather than a reason to replace anything, and it is measurable. A radiator that gets hot while the room stays cold was undersized for the room; a radiator cold at the bottom has sludge in it; a radiator cold at the top has air. Three different jobs.
Hot water across several bathrooms
More bathrooms means more demand, and a cylinder that coped when the house had one bathroom will not cope with three. Anthony is G3 qualified, so unvented cylinders are installed and replaced as well as vented ones, and the safety parts on an unvented cylinder are checked as a matter of course.
The flats and the conversions
Closer to the station and the High Road there are flats and converted houses, some on communal heating with a heat interface unit in the cupboard. We also cover Abridge, Lambourne End and Waltham Abbey from here.
Extensions, and the system that was never resized
Loughton has a great deal of extended housing, and the single commonest thing we find is a system that was correct for the original house and has never been looked at since. Two extra rooms on the end of a circuit that was already at its limit will always underperform, however good the heat source is.
The fix is usually pipework and balance rather than replacement, and it is worth having that established before anyone quotes for a new system on the strength of a cold room.
What we take on in Loughton
HIU servicing
A heat interface unit that is never looked at loses hot water performance slowly enough that nobody notices until it is bad.
Read moreHIU repair
No hot water, no heating, a leak under the unit, or a code on the display. Telling us what it is doing saves a visit.
Read moreHIU replacement
If you live in a flat on communal heating, the unit in your cupboard is a heat interface unit, and replacing one is a different job from anything in a house.
Read moreRadiators
A radiator added, moved, swapped for a towel rail, or balanced so the back bedroom finally warms up.
Read moreLeaks
A leak you can see, a stain on a ceiling you cannot explain, or a meter that keeps turning with everything off.
Read moreDrainage
A sink that drains slowly, a gully that backs up in heavy rain, or waste pipework that has never run properly.
Read moreToilets
Fitted, swapped, or the one that has been running quietly into the pan since the spring.
Read moreSinks and taps
Taps that drip, taps that have seized, and basins and sinks swapped without wrecking the worktop.
Read moreCylinders
G3 unvented qualified. Cylinders installed and replaced, vented and unvented, and the small parts on them that fail quietly until there is no hot water.
Read moreHeating controls
Thermostats, programmers and smart heating, fitted and actually set up rather than left on the default.
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Tell us what needs doing and we will tell you what it takes. No obligation, and nothing starts until you have agreed the price.
Recent work
Our own photographs. We do not publish which town a job was in.
Send a photo, get an answer
Tell Anthony what you can see and he will tell you what it needs.
What our customers say
Anthony is amazing! We haven’t had heating in 4 and a half months and have had 3 previous engineers visit to try and fix it. Big thank you to Anthony for fixing it so quickly on his visit.
Anthony our engineer was amazing! Sorted out issue quickly and efficiently. Very polite and friendly!! Was a pleasure meeting you mate.
The plumber was really good. He fixed the HIU that was leaking. Now it doesn’t leak anymore, and everything works perfectly. He did a great job!
Questions from Loughton
Are you qualified to fit unvented cylinders?
Yes. Anthony holds G3, the unvented hot water qualification, and is WRAS approved.
The top floor is always cold.
In an extended house that is usually balance and pipe size rather than the heat source. Both are measurable.
Should I replace the system or fix what is there?
Fix what is there until somebody has measured it. In a large extended house the usual fault is balance and pipe size rather than the heat source, and replacing the heat source does not change either of those. We will tell you which it is before you spend anything.
Other areas we cover
Brentwood and Romford, and the streets between them. Tell us the postcode when you ring and we will say yes or no straight away.
Get a price for a job in Loughton
Tell us what needs doing and we will tell you what it takes. No obligation, and nothing starts until you have agreed the price.
Get in touch
Tell us what is happening and where the property is. A photo of the unit, the fault code or the leak answers more than a paragraph does.
The plumber was really good. He fixed the HIU that was leaking. Now it doesn’t leak anymore, and everything works perfectly. He did a great job!
Good HIU service, knows his staff well and very quick and the gentleman even helped fixed error code on ambiente heating system, which was not part…