New boiler installation in Blackpool

Boiler installation across FY1 to FY4

Blackpool housing is mixed in a way that matters once you open a floor up, and the property type decides more about a boiler job here than the budget does. These are the four we meet most.

Bispham and the north — semis still on gravity hot water

North of the town the stock is mostly inter-war and post-war semis, and a good number are still running a system boiler with a cylinder and a tank in the loft, much as it was first fitted. Converting one of those to a sealed system is what we are called out for around Bispham more than anything else. The tank comes out, the pipework is cleaned before anything new goes on it, and the airing cupboard comes back.

Terraces off the promenade — the flue decides the job

On the terraces there is rarely a loft to work with and the elevation you can terminate a flue on is restricted, so where the boiler can physically sit is settled before anything else. The condensate run matters too — it needs to fall somewhere sensible and it needs to not be the first thing to freeze in January. We work both out on the survey rather than on the morning of the install.

Seafront flats — termination and access

Flats bring their own constraints: where the flue can terminate on a shared elevation, whether the building’s owner needs to agree to it, and how a boiler gets up there on the day. None of it is difficult, but all of it is worth knowing before you have paid for an appliance.

Holiday lets — demand in bursts, and a certificate to keep

A let is not sized like a house. Several people showering across one morning and then nothing for six hours is a different hot water profile, and it usually points at a different answer on the cylinder question. Once it is let it also needs a landlord gas safety certificate every 12 months.

A recent installation in Bispham

A three-bed semi on an 18-year-old system boiler with gravity hot water — the pattern above, more or less exactly.

Building Regulations and your paperwork

A new boiler is notifiable under Building Regulations Part L. We file it, so you never deal with Blackpool Council about it, and the Gas Safe certificate follows from the registration rather than from anything we print ourselves. The Benchmark log book is filled in on the day and the warranty is registered in your name before we leave.

Questions about a new boiler in Blackpool