Widcombe tucks into a steep valley just south of Bath’s centre, a village-in-the-city of Georgian and Victorian terraces climbing the hillsides, with the Kennet & Avon Canal and the old Widcombe locks running through it. It’s a sought-after, historic corner — much of it in the conservation area — and the housing is largely older, solid-walled Bath stone property.

Those period homes lose heat faster than a modern build and often sit on steep, tight streets, so getting the boiler size right and planning the flue and access properly genuinely matters — we do a proper assessment rather than guessing. A compact terrace often suits a combi; a larger period house with more than one bathroom usually works better on a system boiler. If you’d like to explore lower-carbon heating, we also fit air source heat pumps.

Widcombe gets Bath’s hard water off the limestone, and scale is one of the main reasons boilers fail early here, so every install includes a full system flush and a scale-reducing filter as standard. 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.