I am a landlord with several flats — can you do them together?

Yes. Grouping certificates and services for flats in the same area is more efficient for everyone and easier to arrange around tenants. Tell us the addresses and the current certificate dates and we will work out a sensible order rather than doing them one call at a time.

The radiator valves are seized solid — can they be replaced?

Yes, though it usually means draining the system down rather than isolating one radiator, because a valve that will not close cannot be used to isolate anything. It is a good moment to fit TRVs at the same time and to clean and rebalance the system, since it is already drained and the disruption is already being taken.

My tenant says the boiler keeps cutting out — is that urgent?

It is worth treating seriously rather than waiting. Repeated lockouts usually mean low pressure, a blocked condensate or a failing component, and any of them can turn into no heat and no hot water at the worst possible moment. Ask the tenant to note the fault code, because it tells us what to bring.

Boiler Repair & Installation in Gorgie

Gorgie

Gorgie is dense, tenement and heavily rented, and it is one of the areas we are in most often. We cover boiler installation and replacement, boiler repair and servicing, gas safety checks and landlord certificates, central heating and radiators, plumbing.

The tenements here are generally plainer and slightly later than the Southside stock, and a good proportion are let. That produces a steady flow of annual gas safety checks, between-tenancy boiler replacements and the sort of repair work that gets reported by a tenant rather than noticed by an owner — a boiler that has been locking out for a fortnight, a radiator that has been cold since last winter, a shower that has never worked properly.

System age is the other constant. Plenty of flats around Gorgie and Dalry still have old fully-pumped systems full of magnetite, seized radiator valves that have not moved in twenty years, and a boiler that is the third appliance to be hung on the same tired pipework. When we quote a replacement here we quote for cleaning the system as well, because a new heat exchanger fed by an old system does not stay new for long. Get in touch for a free, no-obligation quote.