Boiler, plumbing & heating engineers in Richmond upon Thames

Heating in Richmond upon Thames

Richmond, Kew and Barnes are largely Victorian and Edwardian, well kept and extensively covered by conservation area designation. As elsewhere in protected areas, the flue is the constraint rather than the boiler, and front elevations are effectively off limits. What is more specific to Richmond is the river. Properties close to the Thames in Richmond, Twickenham and Ham sit in a tidal flood risk area, and that is worth thinking about when siting equipment: a boiler, a cylinder or the electrics for a system placed at the lowest point of a house is a decision that looks fine for years and expensive once.

The housing itself asks for stored hot water more often than not. Three and four bedroom period houses with two bathrooms, frequently with a loft conversion, do not suit a combi however large. An unvented cylinder sized to the outlets, with the incoming main measured first, is the arrangement that actually delivers two showers at once. Where an old vented cylinder and loft tank are being removed, there is usually a bedroom cupboard and a loft to be reclaimed as part of the bargain.

Twickenham, Whitton and Teddington bring more interwar and postwar stock and a steadier run of straightforward work — replacements, services, certificates. Across the borough, access is generally easier than in inner London, but conservation constraints and the river are the two things that make a Richmond survey different from an identical house two boroughs east.