Blades Heating Oxted closed for business in 2023
After nearly 120 years in Oxted this company closed its doors in February 2023, we understand all the staff have gone and the buildings are being sold for redevelopment. Hot Water & Central Heating Ltd are located nearby Oxted, in Edenbridge, we have been established just 21 years! We don’t do AGA cooker maintenance (we have always been a Heritage Cooker specialist instead) but we can maintain your heating systems, whether Oil, Gas, LPG or electric, domestic or commercial. Our number is 01732 866282 or you can email us at info@hwch.co.uk. Please look at our web site if you would […]
What are we doing now?
Servicing: We continue to service equipment we have put in over the last 20+ years for our loyal customers. This includes domestic, light commercial gas and oil, together with LPG and warm air. We also maintain heat pumps that we have installed. We now offer servicing of equipment we haven’t put in, in most cases; this will exclude heat pumps not installed by us. Repairs: We can carry out out heating related repairs on most Natural Gas, LPG, Warm Air, and Oil fired equipment. We also have a lot of experience with controls, zoning etc, especially Honeywell (aka Resideo) Evohome. […]
Business Update –
Posts have been far and few for a while, there’s a good reason for this. Running an installation company is hard work, and used to take 70 – 80 hours a week. Jacqui would man the phones, and deal with the accounts and all other administration; we would never have any spare time for holidays and hobbies. Neither of us are getting younger (corny, I know) so we decided to step back a little. More on what we are now doing, in the next post.
Grand Designs?
In an occasional ‘comment’ post, I want to warn my blog readers about the perils of ‘research’ on the internet. Earlier this year we were approached by an insolvency company looking for a quote to fit 20 electrical fan heaters into a development of 2 year old ‘eco houses’ in the UK. I could tell you the whole story but I don’t want to get into trouble so I am going to have to be vague about where they are. Their email said that these 20 fan heaters would be put into the eco home development, which seemed incongruous, as […]
Oil combination boiler updates Kent Oast House
Our customer had very recently moved to a picturesque Oast House near Headcorn, Kent. Oast Houses are typically found in Kent and although no longer used for their original purpose, retain the round towers and pitched roofs so beloved by picture postcards. Our customer wanted to maximise their internal space, which is always at a premium in a round house and this meant the larder had to be vacated of a poorly maintained Firebird heat only oil boiler; and the bright yellow oil fired AGA also had to go. Sadly, oil fired AGAs are no longer desirable, being temperamental, old, […]
Large Church installation; 3 plus 1 boilers
Earlier this year we were invited to provide a costed design solution for a new boiler plant at St Johns Church, Tunbridge Wells. A large, Grade II listed building, probably the largest church in the area, it comprises an enormous high ceiling worship space, with the addition of vestry and offices. The church building management team knew pretty much what they wanted to achieve, helped by their professional engineering roles in the electrical power industry. We found a cascaded set of three commercial 50Kw cast iron Ideal atmospheric boilers. The Church technical team had previously fitted a BMS (Building Management […]
Greenstar 8000 LPG 70Kw Boiler Cascade in listed building
Our customer bought a large house near Ashford Kent, in a rural setting. They knew the property needed a lot of work, the previous owner had dedicated his life to refurbishing it, and to be frank, there was an awful lot still to be done when he handed over the keys. This was a refreshing refurbishment to be asked to get involved with; our customer had read this blog from time to time, and we were on his list for this project before we knew about it. Unlike some customers, who would buy a large property, have it completely remodelled […]
New warm air unit replaces Johnson & Starley Economaire
Today we are in the Crystal Palace region of South London. Our customer has a J&S Economaire 50 warm air unit. Over the last few years the unit has become somewhat unreliable and needed resetting frequently. Her warm air maintenance company had made some ultimately unsuccessful efforts to improve it, so it was time to replace. We recommended a MultiCalor Udara 15Kw downflow unit, this is from a manufacturer we are familiar with, having fitted many of their MC range air handling units over the last 10 years. The Udara range was launched three years ago and features a wide […]
Game changing oil boiler installation in Leatherhead, Surrey, 10 year warranty.
Oil boilers are considered to be rather outdated now, what with the UK Government pledging* to have us all driving around in electric cars and heating our homes with hydrogen. While not saying where the electricity, or the hydrogen, will be coming from, of course. *Sensibly, these promises are being made with a timescale of at least 15 years away, meaning they are worthless. Amidst these pontifications, a boiler manufacturer has quietly beavered away and come up with a very low Nox (Nitrous Oxide) oil boiler; in fact, it is billed as the least polluting oil boiler you can install […]
Move boiler to cellar and convert to unvented hot water
We are in the Camberwell area, close to London. Our customers have a lovely Victorian house, but unfortunately, the boiler and the hot water cylinder are in a cupboard in the master bedroom. This makes the room unnecessarily warm in the summer, and of course, you can hear the boiler operating. Our customers wished, if possible, to relocate the boiler into the cellar area. Unfortunately the cellar area was underground, with no apertures to ground level, and it had no drainage. And restricted headroom. So that’s all good then. We found a small bookcase in the hallway that had originally […]
