RPH engineer servicing a domestic heating system — Rainworth

Rainworth (Newark and Sherwood) · NG21

Plumbing & Heating in Rainworth

Rainworth is not so much an area we cover as the one we work from. Our office at Ransom Wood sits on the Mansfield side of the village, which makes this the shortest journey we make and the easiest place for us to get to at short notice. The housing is mostly colliery-era and post-war, built when Rufford was working, and the heating systems reflect it.

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Services available in Rainworth (Newark and Sherwood)

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

Boiler Installations in Rainworth
Installation work here is dominated by the 1920s and 1930s colliery housing, where the original back boiler is still in place surprisingly often and the job is a removal and re-site to the kitchen. Off Warsop Lane the post-war properties are open-vented conversions. Newer housing along Kirklington Road is generally a direct combi swap. Being based in the village means the survey and the quote usually happen the same week.
Boiler Installations in Rainworth
Boiler Maintenance in Rainworth
Severn Trent water here is moderately hard and scales combi heat exchangers over time, which shows up first as weakening hot-water flow. Annual servicing covers combustion analysis, safety device testing, descaling where it is needed and a filter clean. Rainworth appointments are easy for us to slot in, so servicing rarely needs booking weeks ahead.
Boiler Maintenance in Rainworth
Leak Detection in Rainworth
We are asked to find leaks in Rainworth more than anywhere else we work, and the village's housing explains why. The colliery-era properties have supply pipes old enough that lead is still common, and the post-war housing off Warsop Lane has heating pipework buried in solid floors. Both fail quietly. Because our office is minutes away we can get to a suspected leak the same day, which matters when the alternative is water running under a floor for another week.
Leak Detection in Rainworth
Landlord Boiler Services in Rainworth
A good proportion of the older colliery housing in the village is now privately rented. We issue CP12 certificates and carry out the servicing alongside them, arranging tenant access ourselves. Where a landlord has several properties in Rainworth and Blidworth we group them into one round.
Landlord Boiler Services in Rainworth
Commercial Plumbing Services in Rainworth
We work across the units at Ransom Wood Business Park and the businesses along Southwell Road — washroom fit-outs, cylinder replacements, leak repairs and planned maintenance. Being on the park ourselves means an urgent commercial call-out here is a walk rather than a drive.
Commercial Plumbing Services in Rainworth

Local to Rainworth (Newark and Sherwood)

Rainworth grew around Rufford Colliery, and the 1920s and 1930s housing built for it makes up much of the village. Those properties were built with solid fuel and converted to gas later, which means we still find back boilers, awkward original flue routes and pipework that has been extended rather than replaced. The post-war housing off Warsop Lane is typically open-vented with a cylinder, and converts cleanly. The private development along Kirklington Road is newer and usually a straightforward combi swap. Because the office is on the edge of the village, Rainworth quotes are normally back the same day.

Copper pipework run neatly beneath a newly fitted boiler — Our own work — a recent installation, photographed on completion.

Access and parking

The A617 through the village carries a lot of traffic and the Southwell Road frontages have limited places to pull in, so van positioning matters more than the short distance suggests. Being based at Ransom Wood means we can return the same day for a part rather than rescheduling, which is the real advantage of working somewhere five minutes from the office.

Housing we work on here

1920s and 1930s colliery housing built for Rufford
Post-war council housing off Warsop Lane
1960s–80s private development along Kirklington Road
Later infill and new-build towards Blidworth Lane

Recent work in Rainworth

Southwell Road West
Colliery-era semi with the original back boiler still behind the front-room fire. Appliance and fire removed, opening made good, and an A-rated combi hung in the kitchen with the flue routed away from the road frontage.
Warsop Lane
Post-war property converted from open-vented to a sealed system — cylinder and loft tanks out, radiators flushed, magnetic filter and smart controls fitted.
Kirklington Road
Traced a supply pipe leak on a 1970s property where the water bill had doubled but nothing was visible indoors. Located the fault on the external run and repaired it without opening up the driveway.

What customers near Rainworth say

Real reviews from customers across Rainworth 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 Rainworth

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 Rainworth — your questions

Are you actually based in Rainworth?

Our office is at Ransom Wood Business Park, on the Mansfield side of the village. It is the shortest journey we make, and it means we can come back the same day with a part rather than rebooking you for next week.

Do you charge for travel to Rainworth?

No. There is no travel charge anywhere in NG21, and Rainworth is the last place we would apply one.

Can you find a leak without digging up my drive?

Usually, yes. We trace the pipe run with thermal imaging and acoustic equipment before anything is opened, so the excavation — if one is needed at all — is a small hole in the right place rather than a trench in the wrong one.

Do you cover Blidworth and Bilsthorpe as well?

Yes, along with Clipstone, Farnsfield and the rest of the NG21 area. All of it is within a few minutes of the office.

How much does a new boiler cost in Rainworth?

From £1,795 fully fitted for a straightforward combi swap. Back boiler removals in the colliery-era housing, which are the most common job in the village, typically run £2,400 to £3,500 as a fixed written price.

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