Heating Engineer & Plumber, Harborne

Harborne is dense Edwardian and interwar family housing, and a very high proportion still runs a hot water cylinder and loft tank. Reclaiming an airing cupboard and a loft is often as much of a draw here as the running-cost saving.

Heating work in Harborne

Combi conversions are our most common Harborne job — removing the cylinder and cold water tank, re-running pipework and rebalancing the system. It is a two-day job and it changes how a house works, so we walk through it properly before quoting.

Where a family runs two bathrooms, we will steer you away from a combi. Being honest about that at the survey saves an expensive disappointment.

Recent work in Harborne

Quinton, September 2026: a boiler held together with duct tape. An online booking for a Worcester Greenstar Compact CDi whose control panel had dropped. A snapped hinge clip, a common fault we carry the part for, so both clips were replaced on the spot and the customer reassured they did not need a new boiler. Read the case study, with photos.

A Baxi E110 weekend call-out in Harborne: the plate heat exchanger had failed on a contaminated system. We fitted the new exchanger, chemically flushed the system and added a magnetic filter so the replacement lasts.

A Glow-worm Betacom in Quinton, B32, showing F28: the circuit board had failed. Correct PCB ordered, fitted and tested — heating and hot water restored.

An Edwardian terrace off Harborne High Street had a cylinder in the airing cupboard and a tank in the loft. The combi conversion took two days and gave the family back both spaces — as much the reason they went ahead as the running-cost saving.

A B17 family with two bathrooms asked for a combi quote. We talked them out of it at survey and fitted a system boiler instead, which was the right call for how they actually use hot water.

Harborne postcodes we cover

• B17 — Harborne, the High Street, War Lane and the Metchley area
• B32 — Quinton, Bartley Green and Woodgate
• B15 — The Edgbaston side of Harborne Road

Homes and heating in Harborne

Harborne itself is Victorian and Edwardian terraces and semis around the High Street, usually well kept and usually on their third or fourth boiler. Quinton and Bartley Green, which we cover from the same page, are mostly interwar semis and post-war council housing, and the calls from there are more often breakdowns on older combis than new installations.

One of our favourite written-up jobs is from Quinton: a Worcester Greenstar Compact CDi held together with duct tape that needed two hinge clips from the van, not the new boiler the customer feared. That is a fair picture of how we work here: diagnose properly, carry the small parts, and only recommend a replacement when the numbers genuinely say so.

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

Bearwood, Quinton, Selly Oak, Edgbaston, California, Woodgate Valley.