Boiler, plumbing & heating engineers in Southwark

Heating in Southwark

Dulwich, East Dulwich and Peckham are substantially Victorian, and the larger houses in SE21 and SE22 are among the most extended in south London — loft conversions and rear extensions on houses that already had four bedrooms. As in Wandsworth, the heating question is one of capacity: enough stored hot water for the bathrooms that now exist, and a circuit that can actually deliver heat to the top of a four-storey house. Stored hot water at mains pressure is generally the answer, and the incoming main is generally what decides how good it can be.

Bermondsey and Rotherhithe are a different world. Warehouse conversions along the river have exposed services, long horizontal pipe runs and flue routes constrained by walls nobody is permitted to cut into, and the newer blocks frequently run communal heating with heat interface units rather than individual boilers. Where a building runs a communal system, its own contractor is normally the right call and we will tell you that rather than charge for a visit.

Camberwell, Nunhead and the middle of the borough carry a lot of converted terraces and ex-local-authority flats, with a rental market to match. That means certificates, services and repairs more than installations, and it means turning up when a tenant is actually home. The recurring finding on first visits here is a system that has never been flushed running a boiler that is only a few years old — the pipework outlives several appliances, and it carries everything the previous ones left behind.