Boiler installation in Clipstone

New Clipstone was built in the 1920s by the Bolsover Colliery Company as a model village for the pit, laid out to a small number of standard house plans. Nearly a century later that is still the single most useful fact about installing boilers here. Whole streets share the same footprint, the same original flue penetration, the same relationship between the kitchen and the gas entry — so we can usually tell you what your installation involves before we have seen it, and the survey confirms rather than discovers. The counterweight is that these properties were built for solid fuel, so a good number still have a back boiler behind the front-room fire and the job is a removal rather than a swap. Old Clipstone and Kings Clipstone are older, more varied, and get a conventional survey.

What makes a Clipstone installation different

• Back boilers behind the fire

  Standard in the model village housing and still in place in a meaningful number of properties. Removing one means taking out the appliance and fire, making good the opening, running new gas to wherever the replacement goes and terminating a flue that suits the elevation. All of that belongs in the quote, not in a variation afterwards.

• Original pipework at ninety-odd years

  These systems have been extended and adapted repeatedly. Pipe sizes and materials vary within a single property, and hanging a modern appliance on the end without checking flow rates is how radiators end up cold. We test the existing system rather than assuming it will do.

• Consistent layouts, inconsistent modifications

  The plans were standard; the last ninety years were not. Extensions, knocked-through rooms and relocated kitchens mean that the layout we expect is right about four times in five. We survey to confirm which it is, because the fifth one changes the price.

Jobs we do most often in Clipstone

• Second Avenue — back boiler to kitchen combi

  Model village property, back boiler and fire out, opening made good, A-rated combi hung in the kitchen with a new gas run and a flue terminal suited to the standard elevation.

• Church Road — open-vented conversion

  Post-war property converted to a sealed system. Cylinder and loft tanks removed, radiators power flushed, magnetic filter and controls fitted.

• Old Clipstone — circuit re-run with replacement

  Older detached property where the far end never warmed. Undersized circuit re-run alongside the boiler replacement and the whole system rebalanced.

For how we approach installations generally — warranties, the survey, what is included in the price — see our boiler installation page. For servicing, landlord certificates and commercial work in the area, seeeverything we do in Clipstone.