Heating for homeowners

Keep your home warm with small heating repairs

We help homeowners with small heating jobs such as replacing radiators, fitting new valves and bleeding systems so every room heats up properly.

If you are decorating, it is often the perfect time to replace a tired radiator or move one to a better position. We can handle both jobs together.

What we can help with

• Replacing radiators
• Fitting thermostatic radiator valves
• Bleeding radiators and balancing systems
• Taking radiators off for decorating and refitting
• Fixing leaking radiator valves
• Towel rails
• Boxing in heating pipework

How we work

Radiators and decorating

Taking a radiator off the wall gives proper access to paint behind it, which is otherwise one of the hardest parts of a room to reach cleanly.

Once decorating is finished, the radiator is refitted and the system bled so each room heats up evenly again.

What to expect on the day

Taking a radiator off the wall means draining it first, so towels and sheeting are put down to catch any water before the brackets are undone.

Once a valve is replaced or a radiator is refitted, the whole system is bled and checked, so heat reaches every radiator evenly rather than leaving cold spots.

Where a radiator has been moved for decorating, pipework is reconnected carefully so the join does not leak once the heating is switched back on.

Signs a radiator or valve needs attention

A radiator that stays cold at the top while warm at the bottom usually has trapped air and needs bleeding, which is a quick job on its own.

A valve that drips, feels stiff to turn, or will not fully shut off is often worth replacing before it causes a bigger leak.

Cold patches lower down a radiator can point to a build-up of sludge inside, worth mentioning when you get in touch.

How heating work fits around decorating

Removing a radiator before painting gives access to the wall behind it, which is otherwise awkward to reach cleanly with a roller or brush.

Once the paint is dry, the radiator goes back on its brackets and the valve is reset, so the room is finished rather than left with a gap on the wall.

Heating jobs from our Chorleywood base

33 Swannells Walk in Chorleywood is where we are based, with heating jobs booked in Monday to Friday, 8am until 4pm, across the towns on our areas we cover page.

Radiator and valve jobs are carried out in Hillingdon, Croxley Green and Bourne End, among the other towns within our usual range.

Call 07735 852901 if a radiator needs bleeding, a valve is leaking, or you want a radiator removed and refitted around other work.