Your local heating engineer in Headingley

Yes — we’re based in LS6, so Headingley, Hyde Park, Burley, Woodhouse, Kirkstall, Meanwood and the streets around them are right on our doorstep. We cover the lot for new boilers, repairs, annual servicing, landlord CP12s and central heating. Being this local means we usually get to jobs quickly and we already know the area’s housing inside out — from the dense back-to-backs and red-brick through-terraces of Hyde Park and Burley, where space is tight and an efficient combi is nearly always the natural fit, to the bigger bay-fronted villas up towards north Headingley that often want a system boiler and cylinder to feed more than one bathroom. Knowing the stock means we turn up with a fair idea of what the job involves before we’ve lifted a panel. The quickest way to get a straight answer is a few photos of the boiler and where the pipes run on WhatsApp, and we’ll come back with an honest, fixed price.

Yes — student and shared housing is a big part of LS6, and we carry out annual Landlord Gas Safety Records (CP12) for rented houses and HMOs right across the area. Under the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations every gas appliance, fitting and flue in a let must be checked for safety every twelve months by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and you must give a copy of the record to existing tenants within 28 days and to any new tenant before they move in. We check every appliance and flue, test gas tightness and the safety devices, issue the certificate, and keep you reminded when the next one is due so nothing lapses between tenancies. With whole streets of lets changing over together each summer, we’re used to fitting checks and any remedial work into that tight turnaround so a property is compliant before new tenants get their keys.

Being based in LS6, we can usually get to local jobs quickly, and we offer emergency and out-of-hours call-outs when you’ve no heat or hot water — out-of-hours simply means we can come outside normal working hours when it’s a genuine emergency, rather than leaving you days without heating. The fastest way to get a straight answer is to send a photo of the boiler, any error code on the display and a quick note of what’s happening on WhatsApp, and we’ll tell you what we think is wrong, what it’s likely to involve and when we can come. If you can smell gas, leave the boiler off, open the windows and ring the National Gas Emergency line first. One local quirk: parking on the tight terraced streets and one-way systems around Hyde Park and Headingley can be awkward, and we sometimes need a stopcock in a cellar or under the stairs, so knowing the access up front helps us plan.

Everything domestic gas and heating — new combi and system boilers, repairs and breakdowns, annual servicing, landlord CP12s, radiators and full central heating systems, plus power flushing for sludged-up older systems, all carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer right across Headingley and the wider LS6. A lot of the area’s back-to-backs and through-terraces still run on narrow microbore pipework with an older boiler tucked in a kitchen or cellar head, and years of magnetite sludge leave radiators cold along the bottom and the boiler labouring — so a power flush, a magnetic filter on the return and a dose of inhibitor are common alongside a swap, to stop the new boiler pumping the old muck back through itself. Whether it’s a quick fix on a terrace, a tidy combi swap or a full system upgrade, send a few photos on WhatsApp and we’ll tell you honestly what’s needed and what it should cost.