Boiler, plumbing & heating engineers in Hammersmith & Fulham

Heating in Hammersmith & Fulham

The Fulham and Brook Green terraces are the defining stock here: two rooms wide, three or four floors once the loft is counted, and extended at the back by nearly everybody. That pattern creates a specific problem. The heating system was designed for a two-bedroom house on two floors; the house is now a four-bedroom house on four floors with two bathrooms and an en-suite, and the boiler is the same size it always was. Radiators on the top floor go lukewarm, the shower drops when the tap runs downstairs, and no amount of bleeding fixes either.

The honest answer in most of these houses is not a bigger combi. Height works against you — the further water has to travel up, the more the pressure drops — and a combi can only serve one outlet well at a time. What works is a system boiler with a properly sized unvented cylinder, usually in the loft or on a half-landing, so there is stored hot water at mains pressure for every outlet at once. Where the loft has already become a bedroom, siting that cylinder is the real design problem, and it is worth solving on paper before anything is bought.

Shepherd's Bush and White City add a large rental market and a lot of flats, including conversions where three flats share a building that was designed as one house. Those bring the usual conversion questions about flue positions and gas runs, and a steady flow of landlord certificates. Parking is worth mentioning, because it is real: most of the borough is a controlled parking zone, and a permit or bay suspension for a full installation day is something we sort out with you beforehand rather than discover on the morning.