Let’s Fix Group Ltd installs boilers across Wandsworth, surveying the circuit and the flue route before specifying anything. Call and arrange for one of our expert boiler installers to see the property.
The outcome is a house that heats evenly, hot water for two bathrooms at once, a certificate in your hand and a warranty that will pay out. Getting there means looking at the circuit before choosing the appliance, because that is where new boilers are usually lost.
The Essentials
- A survey before a price, so the quotation matches the property rather than a list.
- Gas Safe registered engineers, with the installation notified and the certificate sent to you.
- The system is flushed and treated, so the new appliance is not hung on old sludge.
- Fixed pricing confirmed before work starts, stating exactly what is included.
- Heating and hot water back on the same day on the great majority of straight swaps.
- A 10-year guarantee on installations, parts and labour, and the business is fully insured.
David Prince heads a team of expert heating engineers across London and the South East, and the same people answer as the emergency plumber in Wandsworth households ring when an old appliance gives out in the middle of a cold week.
Call Let’s Fix Group Ltd and arrange for one of our expert boiler installers to have the property surveyed before anything is quoted.
New Boiler Installation
What you want at the end is a house that heats evenly, hot water that arrives when two people need it at once, a certificate in your hand and a warranty that will actually pay out. That is the outcome. The appliance is only one part of getting there.
The rest is the system it goes onto. A new condensing boiler hung on a circuit full of magnetite will lose its heat exchanger to the sludge the old one left behind, whatever the badge on the front says, and that is the single most common reason a new installation disappoints inside two years.
So the system is assessed first, the circuit is flushed and treated, and the appliance is specified to the property. Installation work carries a 10-year guarantee on parts and labour, and the business is fully insured.
Call Let's Fix Group Ltd for a boiler installation in Wandsworth that starts with the state of your circuit rather than a price off a list.
Boiler Installation and Replacement in Wandsworth
Not every tired boiler needs replacing, and that gets said even when it costs a sale. A fan, a pump, a diverter valve or a board on an appliance with years left is a repair, and it will be treated as one.
Replacement becomes the honest answer at a third repair on an ageing appliance, at a part no longer manufactured, or where efficiency loss is showing on the bills. It is put to you with the reasoning rather than as a foregone conclusion.
The borough’s stock shapes which answer applies. Eighty per cent of Wandsworth’s housing was built between 1940 and 1980 and only five per cent since 2001, so a great many systems here are retrofits into older layouts, with long circuits and plenty of joints. Wandsworth or Putney, the same team covers the patch, and a boiler installation in Putney runs to the same process.
Installation Process and Survey
The survey
Somebody sees the property before anything is quoted. Where the appliance sits, where the flue can legally terminate, what the existing gas supply pipe can carry, how many radiators are on the circuit and what condition the system water is in. Around the commons the housing is highly intact Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas, where access down a side return often decides what is physically possible.
The quotation
The price is fixed and confirmed before work begins, and it states what is included: the appliance, removing the old one, the flue, the controls, the system treatment and making good. A figure that leaves those unstated is not a quotation, it is an opening position.
The day
You are told which day and what happens on it. Sheets down before tools come out, water and gas off for part of the day rather than all of it, the old appliance leaving with the engineer, and heating and hot water back on the same day in the great majority of straight swaps.
Commissioning and handover
The system is flushed and treated, the appliance is commissioned to the manufacturer’s figures, the controls are set to how the household actually lives, and you are shown how to work it before anyone leaves.
Boiler Types and System Options
A combi suits a property with one bathroom and a household that does not run two showers at once. It removes the cylinder and the tanks, which is why it is popular in the borough’s post-war flats and maisonettes where the airing cupboard is worth more as storage.
A system boiler with an unvented cylinder suits the larger period houses, and Wandsworth has plenty: two and three storey Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas around the commons, many now with two or three bathrooms added over the years. Putting a combi on three bathrooms in one of those is the most common specification mistake made here.
A regular boiler stays where the property has a working gravity system or pipework that would cost more to convert than the conversion is worth. In the 1920s garden-suburb estates and the Dover House Road estate, where layouts repeat across a street, what worked next door is usually a reasonable starting point rather than a guess.
Call Let's Fix Group Ltd for a boiler installation in Wandsworth that starts with the state of your circuit rather than a price off a list.
Gas Safe Compliance and Certification
Every installation is carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and the Gas Safe Register is where you can confirm that for any firm before work begins, including this one. The engineers here are employed by the business and DBS-checked, never subcontracted.
A compliant installation ends with more than a working boiler. The appliance is commissioned to its figures, the gas rate and combustion readings are taken and recorded, and the installation is notified so the certificate reaches you rather than staying in a van.
That paperwork is what a warranty claim, a house sale or a tenancy renewal turns on later, and reconstructing it afterwards is not always possible. Wandsworth or Fulham, the same team covers the patch, a boiler installation in Fulham included, and the certification is handled the same way in both.
Call Let's Fix Group Ltd for a boiler installation in Wandsworth that starts with the state of your circuit rather than a price off a list.
Common Questions About Boiler Installation in Wandsworth
How much will a plumber charge to install a boiler?
It depends on the appliance, the flue route, whether the system is being converted and the state of the existing pipework, which is why nothing is quoted before somebody has seen it. After the survey the price is fixed and confirmed in writing before work starts, and it states what is included.
Can you legally install your own boiler?
No. Gas work must be carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and an unregistered installation is both unsafe and uninsurable. It also leaves you without the notification and certificate that a warranty claim or a property sale will later depend on.
What boiler suits a Victorian terrace around Wandsworth Common?
Usually a system boiler with an unvented cylinder rather than a combi, because those two and three storey terraces and villas have often gained a second or third bathroom over the years. A combi on three bathrooms is the specification mistake we are most often called back to correct in this part of the borough.
How much will a plumber charge to install a boiler?
It depends on the appliance, the flue route, whether the system is being converted and the state of the existing pipework, which is why nothing is quoted before somebody has seen it. After the survey the price is fixed and confirmed in writing before work starts, and it states what is included.
Can you legally install your own boiler?
No. Gas work must be carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and an unregistered installation is both unsafe and uninsurable. It also leaves you without the notification and certificate that a warranty claim or a property sale will later depend on.
What boiler suits a Victorian terrace around Wandsworth Common?
Usually a system boiler with an unvented cylinder rather than a combi, because those two and three storey terraces and villas have often gained a second or third bathroom over the years. A combi on three bathrooms is the specification mistake we are most often called back to correct in this part of the borough.
