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Plain-English guides to the questions we get asked most: what a boiler service involves, how hot water cylinders differ, what cover plans actually cover, and what the law expects of landlords in Kent.
Gas Safe Engineer Ashford
Every gas job needs a Gas Safe registered engineer, but registration is granted for particular kinds of work. How to check an engineer properly, and why the fuel matters so much around Ashford.
Read more →Why Is My Boiler Losing Pressure
An occasional top-up is normal, but needing one every few weeks is not. What the gauge should read, the three usual causes, what you can safely check yourself and what needs an engineer.
Read more →Unvented Cylinder Installation Sevenoaks
Larger Sevenoaks homes with two or three bathrooms are what unvented cylinders are for. How one is sized properly, what the installation involves, and why the far bathroom is a distance problem rather than a capacity one.
Read more →How Long Does a Boiler Installation Take
One day for a straight swap, into a second for a move or a conversion. Where the day actually goes, what stretches it, and the paperwork that decides whether your warranty is worth anything.
Read more →Emergency Plumber Medway
Gas goes to the national emergency number first, every time. What to do about water before anybody arrives, what genuinely needs somebody tonight, and what will keep until morning.
Read more →Bathroom Fitters Canterbury
A bathroom in a Canterbury let is a different brief from a bathroom in a family home. What actually changes in the specification, where bathrooms really leak, and what earns its place.
Read more →Why Has My Boiler Locked Out
A lockout means the boiler detected something and shut itself down deliberately. Reset it once. If it locks out again, the reason is still there, and resetting past it is the expensive mistake.
Read more →Combi vs System Boiler
A combi heats water as you draw it. A system boiler heats a cylinder in advance. Which suits you is decided by your bathrooms, your cupboard space and your mains flow, in that order.
Read more →How Long Does a Bathroom Installation Take
One to two weeks for most full bathrooms. What actually decides where you land in that range, why tiling and drying set the pace, and the one thing that adds days more often than the work does.
Read more →What to Do If a Pipe Bursts
The first few minutes decide how much damage a burst pipe does. The order to do things in, where to find your stop tap before you need it, and the step nearly everybody skips.
Read more →Why Are My Radiators Cold at the Bottom
Cold at the top means air. Cold at the bottom means sludge, and bleeding will not touch it. Where magnetite comes from, and the difference between a chemical clean, a power flush and a filter.
Read more →Landlord Gas Safety Certificate Explained
What a CP12 actually covers, which appliances are yours to check and which are the tenant's, what happens when something fails, and the two deadlines landlords mix up constantly.
Read more →Boiler Repair Gravesend
A fault code names the symptom, not the cause, which is why the same part gets fitted twice. What actually breaks, what each fault means, and what should happen before anything is replaced.
Read more →Heating a Tonbridge Home
The Medway shapes more than the view in Tonbridge. Where heating equipment should sit in a town with a flood history, and why a terrace, a family house and a village property need three different answers.
Read more →Repair or Replace My Boiler
Age is the worst reason to replace a boiler and the one given most often. What actually decides it, what a repair is worth on an older appliance, and the number nobody checks before quoting.
Read more →Signs Your Hot Water Cylinder Is Failing
Cylinders rarely fail without warning. What discoloured water, lost capacity, noise and a warm cupboard each point to, and the one check that tells you whether the cylinder is even involved.
Read more →Vented or Unvented Cylinder
A vented cylinder takes its pressure from a tank in the loft. An unvented takes it from the main. Which suits your house, and why only one of them is notifiable work.
Read more →What Makes Plumbing in Faversham Different
Faversham's housing is older than most of Kent's, and it changes the job. What conservation status, solid walls and off-grid villages mean for a boiler, a bathroom or a leak.
Read more →Why Is My Shower Going Cold
The timing is the diagnosis. Whether it goes cold after two minutes or after ten tells you whether the fault is in the boiler, the cylinder or the shower itself.
Read more →Boiler Service Maidstone
What a boiler service costs in Maidstone, what should actually be measured while the engineer is in front of it, and how to tell a thorough service from a quick one.
Read more →Why Has My Water Pressure Dropped
Mains pressure and boiler pressure are two different things sharing one name. How to tell which of them has dropped, the usual causes of each, and what is safe to check yourself.
Read more →Hard Water in Maidstone
Maidstone sits on chalk and greensand, so the water is hard and limescale is a fact of life. What it actually does to a boiler, a cylinder and a bathroom, and which of the fixes earn their money.
Read more →How Often Should You Service a Boiler
Once a year, every year, whether the boiler is two years old or fifteen. What a proper service covers, when you need one more often, and what we most often find once the casing is off.
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