Heating Engineer & Plumber, Handsworth Wood

This is where we are based, so B20 and B21 get the fastest response we can give anyone. Being ten minutes away also means we can drop back with a part in the afternoon rather than booking you in for another day.

Heating work in Handsworth Wood

Handsworth Wood is dominated by large interwar semis and substantial Edwardian villas along Hamstead Road and Church Lane, many of them converted into flats or run as HMOs. Two patterns follow from that. First, a lot of these houses still have original open-vent systems with a cylinder in the airing cupboard and a tank in the loft — prime candidates for a combi conversion. Second, the density of rented and multi-occupied property means a steady stream of CP12 certificates and multi-appliance checks.

The larger villas often need more boiler output than owners expect. We size on heat loss rather than bedroom count, which matters a great deal in a solid-walled house of that age.

Recent work in Handsworth Wood

An emergency installation in Handsworth Wood: the old boiler was beyond repair, so we removed it and installed a new Worcester Bosch, tested and commissioned, restoring heating and hot water without the family waiting days.

A Glow-worm in Handsworth showing F75 — the pressure sensor had failed. The replacement was already on the van, fitted and tested in one visit.

A Hamstead Road villa split into three flats had one tenant with no hot water while the other two were fine. It turned out to be an isolated fault on one branch of a shared system — we traced it without disturbing the other flats.

A landlord with four HMOs across B20 asked us to bring every CP12 onto the same renewal date. We staggered the visits over a fortnight, and now the whole portfolio renews together each year.

Handsworth Wood postcodes we cover

• B20 — Handsworth Wood, Birchfield and the Hamstead Road side of Perry Barr
• B21 — Handsworth, Holyhead Road and Soho Road
• B19 — Lozells and Newtown on the southern edge

Homes and heating in Handsworth Wood

Handsworth Wood is where we are based, at 1 Coopers Road, B20 2JS, so it is the one area where we can honestly say we are usually minutes away. The housing is a mix of large 1920s and 1930s semis and detached houses along Handsworth Wood Road and Church Lane, and older Victorian terraces closer to Soho Road and Holyhead Road. The bigger houses tend to have system boilers and cylinders with a lot of radiators; the terraces are almost all combis.

Handsworth has one of the highest concentrations of privately rented houses and HMOs in Birmingham, so landlord gas safety certificates are a large part of our local work, often bundled with a boiler service on the same visit. Being local also means we are the ones people ring when a previous engineer has condemned a boiler and they want a second opinion before spending two thousand pounds.

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

Handsworth, Hamstead, Perry Barr, Birchfield, Lozells, Great Barr.