Boiler, plumbing & heating engineers in Brent

Heating in Brent

Kilburn, Willesden and Cricklewood are late-Victorian and Edwardian terraces, and a very large share of them are now flats. A converted terrace typically leaves the ground floor flat with the garden and the original pipework, and the upper flats with whatever route the converter could find. Boiler positions end up in hallway cupboards and above kitchen units, flues run at odd angles, and condensate pipes get taken outside where they freeze on the coldest night of the year. Where we can, we run condensate internally to a soil stack — it is a small detail that prevents the most common midwinter breakdown there is.

Wembley and Alperton are a different borough entirely. The stock around Wembley Park has changed faster than anywhere else in London: large blocks of new flats, many on communal heating with a heat interface unit rather than an individual boiler. It is worth being straightforward about those. A heat interface unit is not a gas appliance, most of them are covered by the building's own maintenance contract, and where a block holds the contract we will tell you to use it rather than charge you for a visit that changes nothing.

Between the two sit Kingsbury and the interwar streets, the familiar 1930s semis with systems added decade by decade, plus a substantial private rental market right across the borough. That rental market is why landlord gas safety certificates are a steady part of our work here, and why we do them evenings and Saturdays: getting into a tenanted flat in NW10 at eleven on a Tuesday morning is rarely realistic for anybody.