Plumbers in Ashford

Ashford is the furthest of our regular areas at around twenty five minutes, and we cover it for booked work.

For genuine emergencies, our response time to Ashford is longer than to Folkestone or Hythe. We will tell you that honestly on the phone rather than leaving you waiting and wondering, and if someone closer can get to you faster we will say so.

The new build estates

Ashford has had more new housing than anywhere else in this part of Kent. These properties are generally well insulated with modern boilers, and the recurring issues are developer shortcuts rather than age.

Systems that were never balanced. Controls installed but never set up. Radiators sized to the minimum the calculation would allow. And frequently no magnetic filter fitted at handover and no inhibitor dosed, which means the system silts up years earlier than it should. See power flushing and radiators and TRVs.

Once the developer warranty runs out, a lot of these systems have never had a service, and the first breakdown usually arrives shortly afterwards. It is almost always preventable. See boiler servicing.

Older town property

Central Ashford and the older suburbs have Victorian and post-war stock with the usual ageing pipework and heating systems that have been extended rather than designed.

Extensions and renovations

A large part of the work we do in Ashford is heating alterations for extensions, and there is one point worth making clearly: adding radiators to a system already at capacity makes every existing radiator slightly worse.

The existing system needs assessing before anything is added to it. That assessment takes a couple of hours and saves a great deal of frustration in the first cold week after the extension is finished. See central heating installation and should you move plumbing during a renovation.

Underfloor heating

Common in Ashford extensions and much easier to plan while floors are up than to retrofit later, when every millimetre of floor build-up becomes a problem with door thresholds and skirting. See underfloor heating installation.

Larger properties and hot water

Many of the newer Ashford houses have three or more bathrooms fed by a combi, which struggles when two showers run at once. A system boiler with a properly sized unvented cylinder is usually the better answer.

What we cover in Ashford

• Boiler installation and replacement

• Boiler servicing

• Radiators and TRVs

• Underfloor heating 

• Bathroom installations

  
  

Useful reading

How to prepare for a new boiler installation and how heating controls can improve comfort.

Call +44 7915 255984 for a plumber in Ashford.