Central heating installation in Reepham
Heating work in Reepham means period property and hard water: pipe routes that have to be agreed rather than assumed, and systems that scale faster than they do in soft water country
Reepham in short
- From base
- About 25 minutes — travel included
- Covering
- Reepham NR10, Whitwell, Salle, Cawston Road
- Common here
- Oil systems, period constraints, hard water scaling
- Survey
- Free, and the price is written and fixed
- Unvented cylinders
- G3 qualified, fitted in-house
- Listed property
- Routes and consent settled before work starts
Hard water is doing more damage than you think
Norfolk water is hard, and around Reepham it does its work quietly. In a combi it means a scaled plate heat exchanger, and the classic symptom is hot water that starts warm and then runs cold while the heating carries on perfectly well. On a cylinder it furs the coil, so the tank takes longer and longer to recover
On any new installation here a scale reducer is worth fitting. It is inexpensive next to a heat exchanger, and in this water it pays for itself. It is not something to be sold — it is something to be specified as standard and told the cost of
Period property, and where pipe can actually go
The Georgian and older property in and around the Market Place plumbs like what it is: solid walls, no cavity, floor levels that do not agree with each other, and a century of pipework added by different hands. Where a new run can go is a real question rather than a formality, and it gets answered with you before anything is lifted
Out towards Whitwell and Salle the properties are more spread out and more likely to be on oil, which puts the plant somewhere different and changes the pipe runs with it. Neither is difficult, but both are the reason a heating quote here is written after a survey rather than over the phone
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