Heating & plumbing in Hedge End
Hedge End is a regular run for us — comfortably inside the area we cover from Bishopstoke, with no travel surcharge, and easily booked into the same week.
A town of estates that all need boilers at once
Hedge End was a village of around a thousand people in the 1950s. The M27 changed that: rapid expansion from the 1980s onward, a railway station in the early nineties, and by 2001 a population approaching eighteen thousand — with Grange Park and the estates north and east of the old centre built out largely from the nineties.
What that means, practically, is a town where an enormous number of homes have a boiler of roughly the same age, installed by whoever the developer used, reaching the end of its life at roughly the same time. If your neighbours have been replacing theirs, yours is on the same clock.
Modern estate housing is generally good to work on: sensible pipe runs, decent insulation, boilers in garages, utility rooms or kitchen cupboards, often on vertical flues through a flat roof or a boxed run. The one thing worth checking early is whether the original installer left enough room to fit a current boiler in the same cupboard — the dimensions have changed.
What it costs
Combi swaps from around £2,195 fitted, with an indicative price online in about 90 seconds. Annual servicing from £100. Repairs at £100 for the first hour and £75 an hour afterwards. Powerflushing from £600, which on a system of this age is often the better value job.
Common questions
Postcodes covered: SO30 and surrounding areas, see everywhere we work.
No heat, no hot water, or water you can’t stop?
Call 07969 110679. We hold 24-hour emergency cover. £100 for the first hour, £75 an hour after, and no separate call-out fee on top. If it’s something you can safely sort yourself, we’ll tell you that on the phone rather than charge you to hear it.
Your new boiler price, in 90 seconds
Answer a few questions, get an indicative fitted price instantly. A free survey then confirms and locks in your price, no obligation.