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Boiler installation, replacement and central heating in Hanham, from a Gas Safe registered engineer based a few minutes north in Staple Hill.
Almost all of Julian's work comes from repeat customers and recommendations. Over forty years, that is the only measure that means anything.
Hanham is a short drive south from our base in Staple Hill, down through Kingswood. Julian has been fitting and repairing central heating across east Bristol for over forty years and knows the area and its housing well.
He is Gas Safe registered, reg. 198984, and a Worcester Bosch accredited installer, so a new Greenstar boiler comes with up to a 12-year manufacturer guarantee. He also holds the unvented hot water and LPG qualifications.
Hanham runs from the older stone properties and terraces around Hanham High Street and Hanham Abbots through to interwar and postwar semis, and out to the larger houses towards Hanham Green and the Avon valley.
The older stone cottages down towards the river are the ones that need the most thought. Solid walls lose heat far faster than cavity walls, so radiators sized off a standard chart end up undersized and the room never quite gets warm. Julian works out the actual heat loss room by room instead.
A straight swap is usually a single day, so heating and hot water are back on the same evening.
In older stone properties, new radiators often do more than a new boiler would.
Annual servicing keeps your guarantee valid. Landlord CP12 certificates also available.
Most calls are boiler replacements. A straight swap in the same position is usually a single day, so the heating and hot water are back on the same evening. Converting from a cylinder system to a combi, or moving the boiler, takes longer and is priced after a look.
A full central heating installation takes four to five days for a typical Hanham home. Every radiator is sized to its room, the system is flushed and dosed with inhibitor, and the whole thing is balanced at the end so no room is left cold.
In the older properties, replacing tired single panel radiators with modern double panel units is often the cheapest way to make a house feel properly warm without touching the boiler at all. Julian will tell you when that is the better spend.
Larger homes towards Hanham Green with two bathrooms are usually better served by a system boiler and an unvented cylinder than by a combi that cannot keep up with two showers at once.
Landlords can book their annual CP12 certificate. Julian works Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and weekend mornings, and does not offer emergency or out-of-hours callouts.
Yes, including Hanham Abbots and out towards Hanham Green. It is a short drive south from Julian’s base in Staple Hill, down through Kingswood.
Often not. In older Hanham properties it is usually an undersized radiator, a system that has never been balanced, or sludge blocking the flow.
Yes. Swapping old single panel radiators for modern double panel units, then balancing the system, frequently transforms an older house for far less than a full replacement.
A straightforward replacement is usually done in a day. A full central heating system takes four to five days depending on the size of your home.
Most combi boiler replacements start from around £2,000, depending on the boiler and your home. You get a clear, fixed quote before any work begins.
No. Julian works Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and weekend mornings. If you smell gas, call the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999.
The trickiest properties in the area to heat well, and the ones where getting it right makes the biggest difference in January. Solid walls mean radiators sized off a standard chart come out undersized.
Older brick, compact, often with original pipework still in place. Replacing tired single panel radiators frequently transforms the house for a fraction of the cost of a full system.
Cavity walls and conventional layouts. Straightforward work, and usually well suited to a correctly sized combi where the mains flow supports it.
Often two bathrooms, where a combi cannot supply two showers at once. A system boiler with an unvented cylinder is usually the better answer.
We also cover Kingswood, Warmley, Staple Hill, Fishponds and Mangotsfield. See all the areas we serve.
Hanham runs down towards the Avon valley, and the older cottages at that end are some of the trickiest properties in the area to heat properly. They are also the ones where getting it right makes the biggest difference to how the house feels in January.
Hanham sits far enough south that some engineers based north of Bristol will not travel to it. Julian covers it as standard with no distance surcharge, and is Gas Safe registered under reg. 198984 and Worcester Bosch accredited.
Hanham was added alongside Winterbourne to balance the coverage south west of the yard. Plenty of the older properties here have had heating fitted and refitted over several decades, which usually means more than one generation of pipework behind the walls. That gets checked before anything is quoted.
Call Julian for a free, no-obligation quote on central heating or a new boiler in Hanham.