What this site is
We're a small team who work in and around the plumbing and heating trade in the West Midlands and the Marches. This site is where we put down, in writing, the explanations we end up giving people again and again — usually standing in someone's kitchen pointing at a boiler.
It covers the work itself. It isn't a shop window, and we're not chasing your custom by writing it.
What we cover
The guides fall into two halves. One half is about how things work and what jobs involve — central heating in a typical British home, what replacing a boiler with a combi actually means, annual servicing and the faults it catches, power flushing sludge out of a system, underfloor heating in extensions, unvented cylinders and mains-pressure hot water, the plumbing behind a new bathroom, and clearing blocked drains properly.
The other half is local and specific:
- Wolverhampton's Victorian terraces, hard water and ageing pipework
- Telford homes, from estate housing to the rural fringe
- Shrewsbury's period properties and the streets that flood
How it's written
Plain answer first, then the detail. We try to avoid jargon, and where we can't, we explain it. If something is genuinely a job for someone with a gas qualification, we say so rather than pretending it's a weekend project.
Who it's for and how to reach us
About the area
Wolverhampton, in Shropshire, has plenty of history of its own. For background on the town itself, its Wikipedia page is a good place to start.