Plumbing & Heating in Radcliffe-on-Trent

Local to Radcliffe-on-Trent (Rushcliffe)

Radcliffe-on-Trent divides cleanly by age and, unusually for our patch, by ground. The Victorian villas along Main Road are substantial properties with solid walls, high ceilings and heat demands that a small combi cannot meet — system boilers with unvented cylinders are frequently the right answer here rather than the combi swap that suits smaller housing. The village core around St Mary's is older brick with the flue constraints that come with solid walls. The later estates off Cropwell Road and Shelford Road are conventional and mostly straightforward. What sets the village apart is the drop to the Trent on its northern edge: ground conditions and levels vary far more across a short distance here than they do inland, and that shows up in drainage, condensate falls and in how buried pipework behaves.

Housing we work on here

• Victorian villas along Main Road built after the railway arrived
• Older brick property around St Mary's and the village core
• Inter-war and post-war semis towards Nottingham Road
• Extensive later private estate development off Cropwell Road and Shelford Road

Recent work in Radcliffe-on-Trent

• Main Road

  Large Victorian villa where a single combi could not meet the hot water demand across three bathrooms. Converted to a system boiler with an unvented cylinder, with the primary pipework upgraded to suit.

• Cropwell Road

  Later estate property with a failing combi replaced like for like, gas supply checked against the new rate and a magnetic filter fitted.

• Shelford Road

  Located a leak on a buried heating circuit where system pressure had been falling for months with nothing visible. Traced by thermal imaging and repaired through a single opening.