Engineer working on a domestic water heater — Ravenshead

Ravenshead (Gedling) · NG15

Plumbing & Heating in Ravenshead

Ravenshead is a different job from most of the places we cover. It was built largely as private housing from the 1960s onwards — big detached properties on generous plots, many with two bathrooms and a hot-water demand that a standard combi cannot meet. The right answer here is far more often a system boiler and an unvented cylinder than the combi swap that suits the terraces further north.

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Services available in Ravenshead (Gedling)

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

Boiler Installations in Ravenshead
Installation work here is rarely a straight combi swap. The properties are large enough that a combi cannot serve two or three bathrooms properly, so most jobs are system boilers with unvented cylinders. On the 1960s and 1970s houses the original microbore pipework often needs assessing at the same time — there is no point fitting more output into a system that cannot circulate it.
Boiler Installations in Ravenshead
Boiler Maintenance in Ravenshead
Unvented cylinders have their own annual requirements beyond the boiler service — expansion vessel charge, temperature and pressure relief valve testing, and the discharge arrangement. We cover both in one visit for the many Ravenshead properties running that setup, rather than servicing the boiler and leaving the cylinder unchecked.
Boiler Maintenance in Ravenshead
Leak Detection in Ravenshead
Ravenshead's properties sit on large plots, which means long external supply runs — often tens of metres from the boundary stop tap to the house, every metre of it the homeowner's responsibility. A leak on that run can go unnoticed for months on a soakaway-prone plot with mature planting. We trace the pipe route rather than digging along it, which on a landscaped garden is the difference between a small excavation and a very expensive one.
Leak Detection in Ravenshead
Landlord Boiler Services in Ravenshead
There is less rented stock in Ravenshead than in the towns around it, but what there is tends to be larger property with more appliances to certify. We issue CP12s covering every gas appliance in the property, not just the boiler, and arrange access directly with tenants.
Landlord Boiler Services in Ravenshead
Commercial Plumbing Services in Ravenshead
We cover the village businesses along Main Road and units at Sherwood Business Park nearby — washroom refurbishments, water heater replacements and planned maintenance, scheduled around trading and office hours.
Commercial Plumbing Services in Ravenshead

Local to Ravenshead (Gedling)

Most of Ravenshead was built as private housing in the second half of the twentieth century, and the heating we find reflects the size of the properties rather than their age. Four and five bedroom houses with two or three bathrooms need genuine simultaneous hot water, which is why so many here run system boilers with unvented cylinders rather than combis. The 1960s and 1970s properties are now at the point where the original pipework, not just the boiler, is due attention — microbore runs that were adequate for the original radiator sizes are often the limiting factor when someone wants a warmer house. We survey the whole system here rather than quoting for an appliance.

Vaillant boiler fitted in a hallway cupboard — Our own work — a recent installation, photographed on completion.

Access and parking

Access is generally easy — long private drives and space to park — but the properties are large and pipe runs are correspondingly long, which affects both survey time and material quantities. The A60 is slow at peak in both directions, so we schedule Ravenshead work outside commuter hours where we can.

Housing we work on here

Scattered older property around the original Fishpool and Kighill hamlets
1960s–70s detached private housing across the main village
1980s–90s executive development on larger plots
Later individual builds and substantial extensions

Recent work in Ravenshead

Longdale Lane
Five-bedroom detached property converted from an ageing open-vented system to a system boiler with a 250-litre unvented cylinder, giving mains-pressure hot water to three bathrooms simultaneously.
Sheepwalk Lane
1970s detached house where cold radiators at the far end of the property turned out to be undersized microbore rather than a failing boiler. Re-ran the affected circuit and rebalanced the system.
Main Road
Replaced a failed system boiler and cylinder in an extended property, upgrading the gas supply to suit the higher output and fitting weather compensation controls.

What customers near Ravenshead say

Real reviews from customers across Ravenshead 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 Ravenshead

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 Ravenshead — your questions

Do you cover Ravenshead from Mansfield?

Yes — about fifteen minutes down the A60, and no travel charge anywhere in NG15.

Will a combi boiler work in a large house here?

Often not, and we would rather say so at the survey than fit one and disappoint you. A combi heats water on demand from the mains, so two showers running at once halves the flow to each. In a four or five bedroom Ravenshead property with two or three bathrooms, a system boiler with an unvented cylinder is usually the right answer.

My radiators are cold at the far end of the house. Is the boiler failing?

Possibly, but in the 1960s and 1970s properties here it is at least as often the original microbore pipework, which was sized for smaller radiators than people now want. Replacing the boiler will not fix that. We test the system before quoting so you are not paying for the wrong thing.

Do you service unvented cylinders as well as boilers?

Yes, and they do need it — the expansion vessel charge and the safety valves have to be checked annually. We do both in the same visit.

What does a new heating system cost in Ravenshead?

A straightforward boiler replacement starts at £1,795 fitted. A system boiler with an unvented cylinder, which is what most of the larger properties here need, is typically £3,500 to £5,500 depending on cylinder size and pipework. Always a fixed written price after a survey.

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