Heating Engineer & Plumber, Edgbaston

Edgbaston's large Victorian villas and conservation-area rules make it one of the more technically demanding parts of the city to heat well — flue positions, external pipework and radiator sizing all need thinking about rather than defaulting.

Heating work in Edgbaston

In the big Calthorpe Estate houses a single combi is almost never the right answer. High simultaneous hot water demand, long pipe runs and considerable heat loss point to a system boiler with a properly sized unvented cylinder. We survey and calculate rather than working from bedroom count.

The Hagley Road apartment blocks are a different job again: flue termination points, access, and landlord or management company permissions all shape what is possible. We have worked in most of them and know what tends to be approved.

Recent work in Edgbaston

A landlord's gas hob replaced, June 2026. A worn-out five-burner hob in an Edgbaston rental kitchen swapped for a new one: disconnected, fitted into the existing cut-out, connected in copper, tightness tested and every burner checked in one visit. Read the case study, with photos.

An Ideal Logic L2 fault in Edgbaston turned out to be more than a lockout: combustion readings showed dangerous carbon monoxide levels. We made the boiler safe immediately, traced the fault to the gas valve and injector, fitted replacements and fully recommissioned it — exactly why a proper analyser matters on every repair.

A leaking 300-litre unvented cylinder in Edgbaston had corroded internally beyond economic repair. We sourced a matching 300L replacement, swapped it over and had hot water back the same weekend.

A Calthorpe Estate villa needed a boiler that could cope with three bathrooms running at once — no combi on the market does that reliably. A full survey led to a system boiler and a properly sized unvented cylinder instead.

A Hagley Road apartment needed management company sign-off before any flue work could go ahead. We put together the technical drawings they asked for and the job went ahead without delay.

Edgbaston postcodes we cover

• B15 — Edgbaston, the Calthorpe Estate, Five Ways and the University quarter
• B16 — Ladywood, Rotton Park and the Hagley Road corridor
• B17 — The Harborne border along Harborne Road and Lordswood Road

Homes and heating in Edgbaston

Edgbaston is unlike the rest of Birmingham for heating. Large Victorian and Edwardian villas, many divided into flats, mean system boilers with hot water cylinders, long pipe runs, radiators on three or four floors, and often more than one boiler in the same building. Balancing and controls matter more here than anywhere else we work, and an unvented cylinder that is past its best is a common reason we are called to a Calthorpe Estate house.

Along the Hagley Road and around Five Ways the stock is purpose-built apartment blocks and converted houses let to professionals and students, so much of our Edgbaston work is for landlords: CP12 certificates, hob and cooker changes between tenancies like the Edgbaston gas hob replacement we wrote up, and quick turnarounds when a tenant reports no hot water.

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

Calthorpe Estate, Harborne, Ladywood, Five Ways, Bearwood, Selly Oak.