Heating Engineer & Plumber, Smethwick & Bearwood

Bearwood and Smethwick have a very high proportion of terraced and multi-occupied housing, which makes landlord certification and compact combi work the bread and butter of what we do here.

Heating work in Smethwick & Bearwood

The Victorian and Edwardian terraces off Bearwood Road typically have combis fitted into small kitchens, with condensate pipes run to outside walls. Every hard frost brings a run of frozen condensate lockouts across B66 and B67 — worth knowing that a jug of warm water along the pipe often clears it before you need us.

Gas supply pipe sizing is the other recurring issue in these houses. An older 15mm run that was fine for a back boiler is frequently inadequate for a modern combi's input, and we check it at survey rather than discovering it on install day.

Recent work in Smethwick & Bearwood

Every hard frost brings a run of frozen condensate lockouts off Bearwood Road. One caller last winter cleared it herself with a jug of warm water while still on the phone to us — no visit needed, no charge.

A B66 terrace booked for a combi swap turned out to have an old 15mm gas run left over from a back boiler, nowhere near adequate for a modern combi. Caught at survey, upgraded before install day.

Smethwick and Bearwood postcodes we cover

• B66 — Smethwick, Cape Hill, Londonderry and Rood End
• B67 — Bearwood, Warley Woods and Thimblemill
• B18 — Winson Green and the Birmingham side of the border

Homes and heating in Smethwick and Bearwood

Smethwick and Bearwood are among the densest areas we cover: long streets of Victorian and Edwardian terraces, a large private rented sector around Cape Hill and Londonderry, and the better-kept Edwardian semis of Bearwood towards Warley Woods. Nearly everything is a combi, most of them in kitchens that have been refitted around the boiler at least once, and a good share are landlord properties where the boiler only gets looked at when the tenant rings.

Because it is a short drive from Handsworth Wood we treat Smethwick and Bearwood as home ground for landlord certificates and annual services. The older terraces also give us more gas leak calls than most areas, usually on old lead or steel supply pipework behind the meter, which we can trace and repair on the same visit.

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, Warley, Handsworth, Winson Green, Ladywood, Oldbury.