Combe Down sits high on the hill to the south of Bath, and it’s a place with real character — this is where much of the Bath stone that built the city was quarried, and you can still see it in the honey-coloured cottages and Georgian and Victorian terraces that line the streets. It’s an elevated, breezy spot with a village feel, and a lot of the homes are solid stone-built properties that come with their own heating quirks.

Those solid stone walls have no cavity to insulate, so they lose heat faster than a modern build, and being up on the hill the weather bites a little harder. That makes sizing the boiler properly really matter — undersize it and it never quite warms the house on a cold day. For a compact stone cottage a combi is often the tidy answer; for a larger period home with more than one bathroom, a system boiler and cylinder usually suits better. We’ll look at your place, advise honestly, and plan any flue run sympathetically to the property.

Combe Down gets Bath’s hard water off the limestone, and scale is one of the main reasons boilers fail early around here. Every install includes a full system flush and a scale-reducing filter as standard. If you’d like to explore lower-carbon heating, we also fit air source heat pumps and will give you honest advice on whether one suits your home.

You’ll get a fixed price agreed in writing before we start and tidy work from a local Gas Safe engineer. See our main boiler installation in Bath service, or ask about a repair or annual service.