Boiler, plumbing & heating engineers in Barnet

Heating in Barnet

Finchley, Hendon and Whetstone were built out in the twenties and thirties on a larger scale than most of Metroland: three and four bedroom semis and detached houses, often with a garage and frequently extended since. Size is the theme of the heating work here. A house with twelve or fourteen radiators, two bathrooms and a converted loft is a genuinely large system by domestic standards, and it is routinely running on a boiler chosen for a house half its size because nobody recalculated when the extension went on.

Getting that right is arithmetic rather than opinion. The heat loss of the building sets the boiler output, the number of simultaneous hot water outlets decides between a combi and a stored system, and the incoming main sets what is achievable at the taps. We do that calculation before quoting, which occasionally means telling somebody that the boiler they were sold a quote for elsewhere is a size too small — or a size too big, which wastes money differently but just as reliably.

Golders Green and parts of Hendon add a large stock of purpose-built flats from the thirties, many with their original pipe runs and some still with gravity hot water arrangements. Mill Hill and the north of the borough bring larger detached houses where zoning pays for itself quickly: two or three properly controlled zones in a big house saves more each winter than the difference between two boiler brands ever will.