Linlithgow Heating Solutions - Boiler Installation and Repair

The rig plots behind the High Street are long and narrow and often reached only on foot through a close, so everything is carried. It is normal here and perfectly manageable, provided it is known before the day so the route in and the removal of the old appliance are both planned.

On the street elevation of a historic building it is unlikely to be acceptable, and where the building is listed or inside the conservation area it may need consent. A rear terminal down the plot is normally the workable answer, and that gets decided at survey rather than on the day.

It affects access far more than it affects heating. Properties up the wynds and closes on the south side often have steps, no parking and no vehicle access at all. That is a job length question, much better raised when you book than discovered on the doorstep.

Flats generally want a compact wall hung appliance with a short compliant flue run and no cylinder eating space. What decides it is the available external wall, the clearance to windows and openings, and whether anything involved is common to the block rather than yours alone.

Steady lower temperature running normally beats short bursts in a heavy masonry building, because the walls store heat and give it back slowly. That means correctly sized radiators and thermostatic control rather than an appliance that blasts out heat and then stops dead.

No. The loch has nothing to do with the water in your radiators or your taps. Where older property near water does sometimes see problems is with damp and ventilation, which make a house feel colder than the thermostat suggests, and that is a building issue rather than a boiler one.

It works out how much heat each room loses at the coldest design condition, based on the construction, the glazing and the exposure. That is what sizes the appliance and each radiator. In a town with this much varied building age, guessing from the old boiler's output is how houses end up cold.

Where the new appliance goes in the same position and the pipework lines up, disruption is minimal. Where it moves, or the old one was a floor standing or back boiler unit, there is making good to do. Which case yours is gets said before the job, not during it.

We work on domestic gas boilers and central heating, including in small mixed use property. Larger commercial plant sits under a different registration, so describe the appliance when you call and you will be told plainly whether it is one for us.

Common causes are a flow temperature set too low, a system that is partly blocked, an undersized pump, or radiators that were never big enough for the rooms. All four are found by measuring rather than guessing, and only one of them ends with a new boiler.