Plumbers in Killamarsh, Derbyshire

Heating and plumbing for a village built in layers

Killamarsh is a village and civil parish in North East Derbyshire, sitting on the eastern side of the Rother Valley about eight miles south-east of Sheffield city centre. It is close enough to the city to form part of the Sheffield urban area, with Halfway, Holbrook and Oxclose immediately over the boundary, yet it is administered from Derbyshire and has kept a clear village centre of its own around the junction of Bridge Street and Sheffield Road.

What makes Killamarsh interesting from a heating point of view is how unevenly it grew. The settlement began as a farming community and its parish church of St Giles carries sandstone work from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Then coal changed everything: the population roughly doubled between 1861 and 1871 as the pits opened, and the village kept expanding through the 20th century until Westthorpe and High Moor closed in the early 1980s. Since then a good deal of newer estate housing has gone up, some of it on land that once carried the Chesterfield Canal.

The practical result is that a single Killamarsh street can hold properties built a century apart. Older village-core homes tend towards solid walls, buried pipework and heating systems that have been part-upgraded more than once. Newer estate houses are usually sealed pressurised systems on smaller-bore or plastic push-fit pipe, and many of those combis are now well into their second decade. We are equally at home with both, and every gas job is carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer.