Pettifer Plumbing & Heating

Pettifer Plumbing and Heating are your local Gas Safe boiler and heating engineers, plumbers and bathroom installers in Enfield. As an established family-run business our reputation is built on serving the local communities of North London, Hertfordshire and Essex. Our skilled plumbers and gas engineers are dedicated professionals committed to providing exceptional service coupled with a high quality range of boilers and central heating products. We are Accredited Installers for Worcester Bosch and Vaillant boiler systems, which means we are able to offer an extended 12 year guarantees on new boiler installations, adding great value and reassurance to customers.

We are your local plumbers and heating engineers for Enfield and surrounding areas in North London, Hertfordshire and Essex. Our team of skilled plumbers are able to offer comprehensive range of services to deal with all aspects of plumbing installations, repairs, servicing and maintenance. Our plumbers are able to deal with everything from small pipe repairs to complete bathroom installations and central heating installations and maintenance contracts. The Pettifer Plumbing & Heating team have years of experience dealing with all kinds of plumbing and heating installations and faults.

This is our ‘Beginners Guide' or ‘Dummies guide' to the different types of gas boiler systems. Nowadays all new boiler systems are energy-efficient, so choosing the right boiler is really about what is most practical and efficient for your home and usage requirements. Since 2010, all boilers must be A-rated for energy efficiency, (or at least 88% efficient and rated by the SEDBUK (Seasonal Efficiency of Domestic Boilers in the UK) to determine the energy efficiency of the system. This is useful in helping pick between the wide range of boiler models available and find one that is both energy efficient and suitable for your home.

If you are looking to give your bathroom a face lift, install a new bathroom suite, or start from scratch and create a new bathroom or en suite, our skilled team of plumbers and heating engineers and bathroom installers can take care of the whole project for you. As plumbers and heating engineers, much of our work comes together in a bathroom installation. As your local plumbers we are able fit the pipework for your heating and water, or we can provide a complete bathroom installation service. With years of experience our team have the expertise to take care of all aspects of your bathroom installation.

It might be quite some time since you last turned on the central heating, having had a good few months of warm and sunny weather. As the summer rolls into September the temperature starts to drop and we start to feel a chill in the air. Autumn on it's way. At this time of year some days may feel like an extended summer, whilst other we can have a cold snap and rain. It's on the cold days we suddenly feel the need to turn on the boiler and fire-up our central heating, to take the chill out of the air, perhaps at first just for the chilly mornings and evenings.

A boiler breakdown, leak or fault can take you by surprise and come at the most inconvenient of times. If you need urgent assistance with emergency plumbing repairs, a boiler breakdown, a fault or a leak with your plumbing or central heating system in Enfield or surrounding areas, our emergency call-out service is here to help - and we are just a phone call away! At Pettifer Plumbing & Heating we treat emergency repairs as a priority and will have one of our team of expert Gas Safe plumbing and heating engineers out to you as quickly as possible.

We are your local heating engineers for boiler servicing in Enfield, North London and surrounding areas in Barnet, Haringey, Hertfordshire and Essex. Whether it's heating or hot water, it is your boiler that is at the heart of the modern home. It is fair to say that most people forget about maintaining their boiler until there is a problem which disrupts their day to day life. Nobody likes getting up for work in the morning with no hot water for a wash, shower or shave, but most importantly, we all want to be safe!

Thank you for taking the time to find out about Pettifer Plumbing and Heating, your local family-run plumbers and heating engineers based in Enfield and serving local areas in North London, Hertfordshire and Essex. Pettifer Plumbing & Heating have over 10 years' experience in the industry. We have built our reputation based on the high standards of service we offer, the professionalism and expertise of our team of plumbing and heating engineers, and the quality of the products, installations, servicing and repairs we provide.

Traditionally an underfloor heating system is something that was often considered a luxury found in the suites of fine hotels. Nowadays, underfloor heating systems are more commonly being installed in bathrooms and kitchens, where an otherwise cold tiled floor can often be found or installed throughout home extensions and new build properties. Underfloor heating not only adds the create comfort of warmth to a floor but means you can have heating in your rooms without losing wall space to mount unsightly radiators or heaters.

A modern home requires an efficient boiler and central heating system to provide on-demand hot water and warmth throughout the household. With a wide variety of boiler systems, heating controls and smart thermostats and other heating products to choose from, a heating system can now be as individual as the home it is for and the household's usage requirements. To help you find the best solution, our expert Gas Safe Registered heating engineers are available to help. With years of experience in heating installations, they can provide expert advice to ensure that your new central heating system can provide efficient heating and hot water as and when your household needs it.

At Pettifer Plumbing and Heating we take great pride in the ability of our boiler and heating engineers, the professionalism of our boiler installations and the quality range of boiler systems that we offer. Our team of Gas Safe Registered heating engineers have extensive experience in replacement boiler installations. They have installed all types of boiler systems including a wide range of makes and models, as well as incorporating all manner of central heating systems. Subject to an initial boiler inspection, our heating engineer will advise you as the whether your boiler is safe, practical and economical to repair, or whether it has gone beyond that, and a replacement boiler installation is required.

As a Landlord of a residential rented property it is your legal duty to have an annual safety check carried out on the gas appliances, pipework and flues provided for your tenants. You are responsible for making sure that they are properly maintained, safe to use and do not present a danger to the tenants. The most obvious danger is from a leak or faulty fitting, which can potentially be toxic or explosive, but it is also important to remember the dangers of Carbon monoxide - the colourless, odourless and almost undetectable poisonous gas emitted by fuel burning appliances which can be fatal.

There are several signs that can indicate when your central heating system is in need of a power flush or a chemical flush. If you are having problems with poor performance and blockages affecting your central heating system's performance it is often caused by corrosion and a build-up of deposits in the heating system pipework and radiators. A power flush is a pressurised chemical flush of the pipework and radiators of your central heating system and in some case the boiler. It designed to clean and clear the system by removing the build-up of 'magnetite' (a sludge made up fragments of rust from corroded metal, dirt and limescale).

It's the time of year that the temperature starts to drop. Autumn will soon turn to winter and the heating system is fired-up to keep the chill at bay. Having laid dormant over the spring and summer months magnetite deposits may have started to build up at different points in your heating systems pipework, radiators and the joints and valves that connect them. Magnetite is compound formed by the corrosive combination of air, metal pipework and water. As the metal components disintegrate over time pieces break off.

Pettifer Plumbing and Heating are your local Gas Safe boiler and heating engineers for boiler repairs in Enfield, Barnet, Haringey and surrounding areas in North London, Hertfordshire and Essex. We provide a boiler repair call-out service for boiler breakdowns with a team of skilled boiler and heating engineers who ready to deal with all aspects of fault-finding and boiler repairs on most makes and models of boiler systems. We appreciate that boilers are at the heart of the modern home, providing warmth and hot water for our daily needs, so when there is a fault with your boiler it can become a major inconvenience.