Heating Engineer & Plumber, Dudley

Dudley has been part of our patch since the beginning. Older Black Country housing stock here means we spend a lot of time on systems that have had decades of piecemeal alterations.

Heating work in Dudley

A recurring Dudley job is untangling a heating system that four different trades have worked on over thirty years: mismatched radiator sizes, redundant pipework, capped-off gas fire supplies nobody documented, and a boiler running well outside its designed conditions. Getting it right starts with a proper survey rather than swapping the boiler and hoping.

We also handle a steady flow of gas fire work here, both servicing and safe removal and capping at £120, as many of these houses still have original fires in the front room.

Recent work in Dudley

Rowley Regis, March 2026: a towel radiator replaced. A tired white curved rail drained and off, a new chrome ladder rail hung on the existing pipework, the system refilled with inhibitor and bled, all in one visit. Read the case study, with photos.

A Viessmann F4 fault in Brierley Hill that had resisted diagnosis — a sticking damper. Correct part ordered and fitted, boiler fully tested, heating and hot water restored.

A Sedgley house had thirty years of piecemeal alterations behind the walls — mismatched radiators, redundant pipework and a capped gas fire supply nobody had documented. A proper survey first meant the new boiler went onto a system that actually made sense.

A Netherton front room still had its original gas fire, unused for years. We removed and safely capped it at £120, which also took it off the annual safety check.

Dudley postcodes we cover

• DY1 — Dudley town centre, Priory and Woodsetton
• DY2 — Netherton, Dudley Wood and Dixons Green
• DY3 — Sedgley, Upper and Lower Gornal, Gornal Wood and Coseley
• DY5 — Brierley Hill, Quarry Bank, Pensnett and Withymoor Village
• DY6 — Kingswinford and Wall Heath
• B65 — Rowley Regis, Blackheath and Cradley Heath

Homes and heating in Dudley

Dudley borough has some of the oldest housing on our patch: Victorian terraces around Netherton and Quarry Bank, the big interwar council estates at the Priory and Wren's Nest, and a wide band of 1960s and 1970s semis and bungalows in Sedgley, Gornal and Kingswinford. A lot of these houses still have a gas fire in the front room, and a surprising number still have the back boiler behind it, so gas fire servicing, removal and capping is a bigger part of our Dudley work than anywhere else.

The 1960s and 1970s houses are the ones most likely to have original steel pipework and radiators under a newer combi. That combination produces sludge, and sludge produces cold radiators and burnt-out pumps, so a power flush is often the honest answer rather than another boiler. The Rowley Regis towel radiator job shows the kind of everyday work we do here alongside the boilers.

What we charge

Our prices do not change by postcode. What you see here is what you would pay anywhere on our patch.

Nearby neighbourhoods we work in

Netherton and Kates Hill (DY2), Sedgley and Gornal (DY3), Tipton (DY4), Brierley Hill and Quarry Bank (DY5), Kingswinford and Wall Heath (DY6), Coseley.