Plumbers in Nether Edge, Sheffield

Careful plumbing and heating work in a conservation area

Nether Edge lies roughly two miles south-west of Sheffield city centre, and much of it falls within the Nether Edge conservation area — wide tree-lined streets of substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas, bay-fronted terraces and red-brick semis, running out towards Brincliffe, Sharrow and Abbeydale.

A large number of those bigger houses have been subdivided over the years into flats, bedsits and shared houses, and that is what makes the plumbing here different. It is common to find one property carrying two or three separate heating systems of different ages, hot water routed through pipework that was never designed for the layout it now serves, stopcocks and meters in awkward shared spaces, and a mix of original and much newer pipe running side by side in the same wall.

We are used to working carefully in period property. That means keeping disruption to original features, cornicing, panelling and floorboards to the absolute minimum, using non-invasive leak detection wherever we can, and thinking about how a system serves the whole building rather than just the flat with the problem. Every gas job is carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer, and we will always explain what we have found before we start.