Wall of Shame

More than a cracked pipe  A customer discovered a water leak and called us in to investigate. We found this…

Bad Flue  On our travels around Stevenage, we found this interesting way someone has made good an old flue hole.  …

Twenty Years of Smells One customer called to complain of ‘drainage’ smells coming from the property,  the owner said they’d…

Circulation Problems With all of the dissimilar metals used in heating systems (copper, steel, cast iron, brass, aluminium etc) plus…

Boiler Service in Watford A new customer hadn’t had their boiler serviced since installation. Luckily they called Space Heating for…

Do you know a good plumber? This was spotted on my travels and I just had to take a picture.…

Found on a routine boiler service An existing customer of Space Heating wanted us to service an existing boiler in a…

Stored water in a loft Would you brush your teeth in this? No, not knowingly, but one of my new…

Power Flush We were called to a house where a new boiler was fitted two years before, and the owner…

Flues in Voids A lot of the things we see by other so-called ‘plumbers’ are often quite amusing, but sometimes…

Dodgey Pipe We were called to a gas leak. The customer had already correctly isolated the gas before we arrived.…

Cowboy Plumbing Rather than change the gas pipe to the hob, why not cut off the hob fitting to suit…

Mind the Gap We see this far too often. Lazy fitters not even making good the flue after installation. This…