Efficient gas boiler and lower household running costs — Farnsfield

Farnsfield (Newark and Sherwood) · NG22

Plumbing & Heating in Farnsfield

Farnsfield sits between Rainworth and Southwell, close enough to our office that it is a routine journey rather than an outlying one. The village has an old core of stone and brick property around the church, later estates built out from it, and a scattering of farms and converted buildings in the surrounding countryside — three quite different heating problems within a couple of miles.

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About 15 minutes east of our Mansfield base

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Services available in Farnsfield (Newark and Sherwood)

Every job planned around local access, parking and the property types we find here.

Boiler Installations in Farnsfield
Three distinct jobs in one village. In the older property around the church the constraint is the flue route and pipe access through solid walls. On the estates off New Hill it is a conventional open-vented conversion or combi swap. In the barn conversions and outlying properties the heat loss calculation matters far more than usual, because getting the sizing wrong in a building like that is expensive in both directions.
Boiler Installations in Farnsfield
Boiler Maintenance in Farnsfield
Annual servicing across the village covers combustion analysis, safety device testing and a filter clean. On the outlying properties we check the whole system rather than just the appliance — long pipe runs, low-loss headers and unvented cylinders all have their own annual requirements and are commonly overlooked when only the boiler gets serviced.
Boiler Maintenance in Farnsfield
Leak Detection in Farnsfield
Rural plots mean long supply runs, and around Farnsfield the distance from the boundary stop tap to the house can be considerable — all of it the property owner's responsibility to repair. On the converted farm buildings and barns we more often find leaks on heating pipework buried in screeded floors, which thermal imaging locates without lifting the whole floor. On the older village property around Main Street, lead supply pipe is still in the ground in places.
Leak Detection in Farnsfield
Landlord Boiler Services in Farnsfield
We issue CP12 certificates for rented property in and around Farnsfield, arranging tenant access ourselves. Outlying properties often have more than one gas appliance to certify, and the certificate has to cover all of them, not just the boiler.
Landlord Boiler Services in Farnsfield
Commercial Plumbing Services in Farnsfield
We cover the village businesses along Main Street and the agricultural and converted commercial premises around Hexgreave — water heaters, washroom facilities and planned maintenance, scheduled around opening hours and, on the farms, around whatever else is happening that week.
Commercial Plumbing Services in Farnsfield

Local to Farnsfield (Newark and Sherwood)

Farnsfield covers more ground than its size suggests, and the work varies with it. In the older property around Main Street and the church we are working in solid-walled buildings where pipe routes are constrained and flue positions have to respect the frontage. The post-war estate housing off New Hill is conventional and usually straightforward. The outlying properties are the interesting ones: barn conversions and farm buildings with heat demands that do not resemble a standard house, sometimes with a heating system that was designed around whatever was available at the time rather than what suits the building now.

Boiler mounted at first fix before making good — Our own work — a recent installation, photographed on completion.

Access and parking

Main Street through the village is narrow in places with limited parking near the church, and the lanes out towards Hexgreave and Combs Farm are single track in sections. None of it is difficult, but it decides what size vehicle goes and whether a delivery can be taken directly to the property.

Housing we work on here

Older stone and brick property around St Michael's and Main Street
Victorian and Edwardian housing along Southwell Road
Post-war and 1970s estate development off New Hill
Modern infill, barn conversions and outlying farm property

Recent work in Farnsfield

Main Street
Older village property where the existing boiler position had no viable flue route to the frontage. Appliance relocated to a rear utility, flue terminated at the back, and the gas run extended accordingly.
New Hill
Post-war semi converted from open-vented to a sealed combi system — cylinder and loft tanks removed, radiators flushed and a magnetic filter fitted.
Towards Hexgreave
Traced a persistent pressure loss on a converted outbuilding to a buried heating pipe under a screeded floor, located it with thermal imaging and repaired it through a single small opening.

What customers near Farnsfield say

Real reviews from customers across Farnsfield and the wider Nottinghamshire area.

Customer rating 10/10
RPH Home Services did a great job. I can’t fault Dean and his team. We had a new boiler fitted. Highly recommended. Fitted the boiler on a Saturday as they were busy the following week.
Boiler installation
Customer rating 10/10
If you are looking for anybody to carry out boiler installation, servicing or central heating work then look no further. RPH were competitive, punctual, professional, clean and tidy. Nothing was rushed and they went to great effort to not only complete our swap from a traditional to a combi boiler, but to do it in a way that made the swap look as good as possible too. Although we got several quotes, they left us feeling confident we made the right decision.
Combi conversion
Customer rating 10/10
I was very impressed with David from the day he came to give me a quote. He checked the location of gas pipes to ascertain the complexity of the job — two previous companies had not even mentioned this. On fitting day David and two colleagues arrived at the time advised. They kept me informed of each task and left my property clean and tidy.
Boiler installation

Our work

Recent work near Farnsfield

Our own photographs from jobs across Nottinghamshire — no stock images.

Worcester combi, kitchen install
Commissioned and documented
Copper pipework, first fix

Plumbing and heating in Farnsfield — your questions

How far is Farnsfield from your base?

About fifteen minutes east of us, past Rainworth. It is well inside our normal working area and there is no travel charge in NG22.

Do you work on properties outside the village itself?

Yes — the farms, barn conversions and individual properties out towards Hexgreave and Combs Farm are all within our area. They usually need a proper heat loss calculation rather than a rule of thumb, which we do as part of the survey.

My property is off the mains gas network. Can you help?

Tell us what you are running on and we will give you a straight answer about whether it is work we take on. We would rather say no at the enquiry than turn up and find it is outside what we are set up for.

Can you fit a boiler in an old solid-walled property?

Yes, though the flue route and pipe access take more planning than in a cavity-walled house. In the older property around Main Street we frequently end up siting the appliance somewhere other than where the old one was, because that is what the building allows.

What does a new boiler cost in Farnsfield?

From £1,795 fully fitted for a straightforward swap on the estate housing. Older village property and outlying conversions vary more, because the flue route, pipe runs and heat loss all differ — always a fixed written price after a survey.

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