Boiler, plumbing & heating engineers in Islington

Heating in Islington

Canonbury, Barnsbury and the streets around Angel are Georgian and early Victorian, narrow-fronted and often four storeys with a lower ground floor. The lower ground floor is the detail that matters. A boiler in a basement raises questions that the same boiler upstairs does not: how the flue reaches open air, whether the flue route passes through habitable rooms and needs to be sleeved, where the condensate can drain to when there is nothing below it, and how a gas escape would ventilate. None of these are obstacles, but all of them shape the design, and they are what a cheap quote quietly ignores.

The borough also has a very high proportion of flats, both purpose-built and converted, and one of the densest concentrations of ex-local-authority housing in London around Holloway and Finsbury Park. Those blocks are often well built with generous pipework, but many are on their second or third generation of individual boiler, and the radiator sizing still reflects the original scheme. Balancing matters more than badge on a system like that.

Practically, Islington is a dense borough with narrow streets and near-total permit parking, and a fair number of our installations here are in buildings without a lift. That is worth saying out loud when we quote, because carrying a cylinder to a third floor is part of the day, and a price that pretends otherwise is a price that changes later.