Boiler installation in Edwinstowe

Edwinstowe divides into two installation problems and they are not close to each other. Around St Mary's and the High Street the property is older stone and brick with solid walls and no cavity, set in a village core where external work is visible and needs to look right. There the flue terminal position decides where the appliance can go, and the answer is quite often not where the old one hung. The numbered avenues built for Thoresby Colliery are the other pattern: early twentieth-century housing, consistent along each street, still carrying legacy appliances and gas supplies that were extended for successive conversions rather than renewed. Those need the run checked against a modern appliance's rate before anything is hung on the end of it. The post-war housing on the village edges is conventional open-vented work and among the cleanest conversions we do.

What makes a Edwinstowe installation different

• Flue routes through solid walls in the village core

  The older property around St Mary's and the High Street has no cavity to core through in the obvious place, and the setting means external pipework and terminals are visible from the street. We establish a compliant terminal position at the survey, taking boundaries and neighbouring openings into account, and site the appliance to suit it rather than the other way round.

• Gas runs extended for successive conversions

  The Thoresby avenues have had solid fuel, then gas fires, then early combis, and the gas supply has generally been added to rather than replaced at each stage. A modern appliance draws more than any of them, and an undersized run produces performance problems that get blamed on the boiler. We check and upgrade where the rate requires it.

• Condensate on older, uneven ground

  Around the village core the ground levels are inconsistent and drainage is not always where it looks like it should be. A condensate run needs a continuous fall to a suitable termination, and working that out at the survey avoids the frozen or backed-up condensate that turns up on the first cold morning.

Jobs we do most often in Edwinstowe

• Fourth Avenue — legacy appliance removed and gas run upgraded

  Colliery-era property where the original flue route could not be reused. Appliance removed, opening made good, an A-rated combi fitted and the gas supply upgraded to meet the new rate.

• Church Street — appliance re-sited for a compliant flue

  Older solid-walled property with no viable terminal position at the original location. The boiler was moved to a wall that allowed a compliant route, with the flue and condensate designed together and the old opening made good.

• Mansfield Road — open-vented conversion

  Post-war semi converted to a sealed system. Cylinder and loft tanks removed, radiators power flushed, magnetic filter and smart controls fitted.

For how we approach boiler installation generally — what is included, how we price it and what happens on the day — see our boiler installations page. For everything else we do in the area, seeour work in Edwinstowe.