Plumbing & heating · Corstorphine
Plumbing and heatingin Corstorphinefor period and interwar homes
Boiler installs, breakdown repairs, heating upgrades and full bathrooms for Corstorphine houses and flats, surveyed properly, priced before we start, guaranteed for 12 months.
Worcester Bosch Accredited Installer · Gas Safe registered · £2m public liability
20+ yrs
Hands-on experience in west Edinburgh homes
Gas Safe
Registered engineer for all gas work
5.0
Google rating
10 yrs
Boiler guarantee as standard
In-house
Bathroom team across every trade
Local coverage
Corstorphine work,on our doorstep
Corstorphine is classic west Edinburgh: bay-windowed interwar semis and bungalows, older village property around the High Street, mansion blocks and a scattering of newer development. It's an area where the heating systems are often as old as the extensions they were stretched to cover.
Request an Estimate07788 373160Where we cover
Corstorphine village and High Street, St John's Road, Clermiston, Drum Brae, Murrayfield edge, Carrick Knowe, Saughton and Gyle-side housing. Houses and flats only.
Getting to you
West Edinburgh is a quick run for us, so same-week planned visits are usually straightforward and reactive call-outs are taken as capacity allows. We won't promise an arrival window we can't guarantee on every job, call and we'll tell you plainly where you sit in the diary.
The housing we know here
1920s–1950s semis and bungalows with cavity or solid walls, roof spaces full of pipework, and heating added in the 1970s. Older village property with thick stone walls. Four-in-a-block and small flatted developments. Plus extended family homes where a rear extension doubled the heat load and nobody resized anything.
What Corstorphine calls about
Boilers at the end of their lives, extensions and loft conversions that never get warm, cold-at-the-bottom radiators, hot water cylinders and immersions failing, low shower pressure upstairs on tanked systems, and bathroom refits in houses where the layout has never changed since the 1960s.
What we do here
Services availablein Corstorphine
Plumbing in Corstorphine
Leaks, taps, wastes, tanks and cylinders in Corstorphine semis and bungalows, including the buried and boxed-in pipework nobody else wants to chase.
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Heating in Corstorphine
Radiators resized and systems balanced so extended Corstorphine homes heat properly instead of unevenly.
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Boiler Installation in Corstorphine
Worcester Bosch and Vaillant installs across Corstorphine, with 10 years on the boiler as standard.
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Boiler Repair in Corstorphine
Gas Safe registered repairs, with the fault diagnosed and explained before parts are ordered.
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Boiler Servicing in Corstorphine
Annual servicing to protect the warranty and keep an older Corstorphine system dependable.
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Bathrooms, All In-House in Corstorphine
Full Corstorphine bathroom refits by our own in-house team, strip-out to final seal, one point of contact.
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1st & 2nd Fix Plumbing in Corstorphine
Pipework and fittings for Corstorphine extensions and loft conversions, set out around the other trades.
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Heating Systems in Corstorphine
Whole-system upgrades where an old Corstorphine system was never designed for the house it now serves.
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Power Flushing in Corstorphine
Sludge cleared from decades-old Corstorphine heating so rooms furthest from the boiler finally warm up.
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Why Corstorphinehomeowners choose us
Accreditation, verified reviews and a written guarantee, rather than claims we can't back with anything.
Owner-led, not dispatched
Lewis has been on the tools since 16, over twenty years, and runs jobs himself. In a family home mid-refit, that continuity is the difference between a smooth job and a mess.
Manufacturer accredited
Worcester Bosch Accredited Installer and Vaillant installer, so the 10-year boiler guarantee is registered as standard and up to 12 years on some models.
Verified ratings
5.0 on Google and 10/10 on Checkatrade from customers around Edinburgh.
Used to extended houses
Corstorphine is full of homes that have grown. We size and balance for the house as it is now, not the house it was when the boiler was fitted.
Insured and guaranteed
£2m public liability insurance, Gas Safe registration, 12-month workmanship guarantee.
Local conditions
Corstorphine propertyand how it fails
Interwar suburban housing has a recognisable set of weaknesses, and most of the calls we take from this area fall into one of them.
Heating designed for a smaller house
Rear extensions, loft conversions and knocked-through kitchens are everywhere in Corstorphine. The existing boiler and radiators frequently weren't resized, so the new space never warms and the old rooms overheat. That's a system design problem, not a boiler fault; and swapping the boiler alone won't fix it.
Loft pipework and cold tanks
Interwar semis often still carry cold-water storage tanks and long unlagged runs through roof spaces that are now heavily insulated at joist level, meaning the loft is colder than it used to be. That combination is exactly how pipes freeze and split in a hard frost.
Buried and boxed pipework
Decades of refits have hidden valves and pipe runs behind boxing, tiling and fitted furniture. Leaks then travel a long way before they show. We trace properly and, where we can, leave sensible access so the next repair doesn't start with a joiner.
Old stone village property
Around Corstorphine's older core, thick stone walls mean surface-run pipework, cold external walls and heat loss that no amount of thermostat fiddling solves. Radiator positioning and correct sizing matter far more in these houses than in a modern build.
Untouched systems full of sludge
A lot of west Edinburgh systems have never been flushed. Magnetite settles, radiators go cold at the bottom, and the boiler short-cycles. A power flush and a magnetic filter usually restores far more performance than homeowners expect.
Our process
How a Corstorphine jobruns, step by step
Step 1
First call
Tell us what's happening and where you are in Corstorphine. We ask enough questions on the phone to know whether this is a same-week job, a planned install, or something you should isolate right now before we arrive.
Step 2
Inspection
We look at the whole installation, not just the tap or radiator you rang about, stopcock, isolation points, pipework runs, boiler, controls and the access we'll need in your Corstorphine property.
Step 3
Diagnosis and price
You get a plain-English explanation of the actual fault and a written estimate before any work starts. If a job needs opening up before it can be priced accurately, we say so instead of guessing.
Step 4
The work
Lewis or the in-house team carries out the work with dust sheets down and water isolated properly. Gas work is done by a Gas Safe registered engineer, every time, with no subcontracted strangers on your floor.
Step 5
Testing and verification
Joints tested under pressure, gas appliances checked for safe operation, systems balanced and rebled, controls set and demonstrated so you know how to run them.
Step 6
Handover and guarantee
We clear up, take the old parts and packaging away, and hand over paperwork. Workmanship carries a 12-month guarantee; new Worcester Bosch and Vaillant boilers carry 10 years as standard, up to 12 on some models.
Questions
Corstorphinequestions, answered
Anything we haven't covered, ask us directly on 07788 373160.
- Gas Safe registered engineer
- £2m public liability insurance
- 12-month workmanship guarantee
- Reactive call-outs taken on
Do you serve Corstorphine?
Yes, Corstorphine, Clermiston, Drum Brae, Carrick Knowe, Saughton and the surrounding west Edinburgh areas.
How quickly can you reach Corstorphine?
It's a short run for us. Availability, not distance, decides the day, ring 07788 373160 and we'll tell you honestly whether we can be with you today or later in the week.
What will the work cost in Corstorphine?
We survey and give a written estimate before any work starts. Corstorphine houses vary a lot, an extended semi and an unaltered bungalow are genuinely different jobs.
Do you take emergency call-outs here?
We take reactive call-outs for leaks, burst pipes and complete loss of heating or hot water. Standard hours are 8am–4:30pm Monday to Thursday, 8am–1:30pm Friday.
My extension never gets warm, can you fix that?
Usually. It's typically a sizing and balancing problem rather than a broken boiler. We calculate what the room actually needs and put the right output in it.
Should I replace my cold-water tank system with a combi?
Often it's worth it, but only if the incoming mains flow supports it. We measure before recommending, rather than selling you a combi and hoping the shower behaves.
Do you fit bathrooms in Corstorphine?
Yes, complete refits with all trades in-house, strip-out, first fix, tiling, electrics, fitting and final seal, with one point of contact.
What guarantee comes with a new boiler?
10 years as standard on Worcester Bosch and Vaillant installs, up to 12 years on some models, plus our own 12-month workmanship guarantee.
Are you Gas Safe registered?
Yes, and £2m public liability insurance is in place.
Do you cover nearby areas?
Yes, including central Edinburgh, Currie, South Queensferry and Leith.
Get a Corstorphineheating engineer out
Send the details or call. You'll get an honest answer on timing, a proper survey, and a written price before any work begins.
Gas Safe registered · £2m public liability · 12-month workmanship guarantee
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