Plumbing & heating · Edinburgh
Plumbers and heatingengineers in Edinburghwith 20+ years on the tools
Owner-led plumbing, heating, boiler and bathroom work across Edinburgh; the fault found and explained, the price agreed before we start, and a 12-month workmanship guarantee on everything we complete.
Gas Safe registered · Rated 5.0 on Google and 10/10 on Checkatrade · Fully insured
20+ yrs
Lewis has been on the tools since he was 16
Gas Safe
Registered engineer on every gas appliance
5.0
Google rating from Edinburgh customers
12 months
Workmanship guarantee on completed work
£2m
Public liability insurance in place
Local coverage
Edinburgh homes,week in and week out
Edinburgh is our home patch. Pentaburgh Plumbing & Heating is based here, works here daily, and covers the city from the tenement stairs of Leith and Gorgie to the bungalows of Corstorphine, the Victorian terraces of Morningside and the new estates out toward Currie and South Queensferry. That means when you describe a problem, we usually already know the kind of building and the kind of pipework behind it.
Request an Estimate07788 373160We genuinely cover the whole city
Old Town, New Town, Leith, Portobello, Morningside, Bruntsfield, Marchmont, Stockbridge, Gorgie, Corstorphine, Colinton, Currie, Balerno, Liberton and the surrounding Lothians villages. We work on domestic property only: houses, flats and tenements; which keeps everything we do pointed at the way people actually live in Edinburgh homes rather than split across commercial contracts.
How quickly we can get to you
We take reactive call-outs alongside planned work, and being Edinburgh-based means travel time is measured in minutes rather than a trip up from outside the city. We don't publish a guaranteed response window, because a promise like that is only worth anything when it's true every time. What you get instead is an honest answer on the phone: whether we can be there today, tomorrow, or later in the week; and what to isolate in the meantime.
We know the property types here
Edinburgh's housing stock is unusually varied for a city of its size. Pre-1919 tenements with lead-tail legacies, shared risers and stone walls. New Town flats inside conservation areas where flues and external pipework need thinking about. Interwar semis and bungalows in Corstorphine and Craigentinny with buried steel pipework. Sixties and seventies estates with cold-water tanks in the loft. Recent developments with pressurised systems and combis in cupboards. Each one fails in its own way, and we've been inside all of them.
What Edinburgh homeowners actually call about
The pattern is consistent: boilers that lock out on the first genuinely cold night, radiators cold at the bottom in flats where the system has never been flushed, leaks under kitchen units in tenement conversions, showers that lose pressure when someone runs a tap, cylinders and immersion heaters coming to the end of their lives, and full bathroom refits in properties where the original suite has been in place for thirty years. We do all of it, and we do the bathrooms with our own in-house team rather than a chain of subcontractors.
What we do here
Services availablein Edinburgh
Plumbing in Edinburgh
Leaks, burst pipes, taps, toilets, wastes and stopcocks across Edinburgh tenements, terraces and new builds, traced to the real cause, not just sealed over.
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Heating in Edinburgh
Radiators, valves, pumps and controls rebalanced so the back bedroom of a cold Edinburgh flat actually reaches temperature.
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Boiler Installation in Edinburgh
Worcester Bosch and Vaillant installations in Edinburgh homes, with a 10-year guarantee as standard on the boiler and up to 12 on some models.
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Boiler Repair in Edinburgh
No heating or hot water in Edinburgh? Reactive call-outs from a Gas Safe registered engineer, with the fault explained before parts are ordered.
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Boiler Servicing in Edinburgh
Annual servicing that keeps your manufacturer warranty valid and catches faults before the first frost finds them.
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Bathrooms, All In-House in Edinburgh
Full Edinburgh bathroom refits, strip-out to final seal, delivered by our own in-house team with one point of contact throughout.
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1st & 2nd Fix Plumbing in Edinburgh
Pipework and final fittings for Edinburgh extensions, loft conversions and renovations, set out to work with the trades either side of us.
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Heating Systems in Edinburgh
Whole-system design and installation for tired Edinburgh heating that has been patched more times than it has been planned.
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Power Flushing in Edinburgh
Sludge cleared from Edinburgh systems so radiators heat evenly, the boiler stops short-cycling and the whole house warms faster.
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Why Edinburgh homeownerscall us back
We don't publish invented statistics. What we can point to is a 5.0 Google rating, a 10/10 Checkatrade score, an owner who has spent more than twenty years on the tools, and work that carries a written guarantee.
You deal with the owner
Lewis Bowman started in the trade at 16 and has been doing this for over twenty years. He treats every Edinburgh job like it's in his own home, which in practice means dust sheets, boots off, and the site left clean at the end of each day.
Rated by the people we've worked for
5.0 on Google and 10/10 on Checkatrade, from Edinburgh customers who let us into their homes. Those are verified scores, not self-declared claims.
Accredited for the boilers we fit
Worcester Bosch Accredited Installer and Vaillant installer, which is what allows us to register the 10-year guarantee as standard rather than the shorter term a non-accredited fitter can offer.
Insured and guaranteed
£2m public liability insurance in place, Gas Safe registration on all gas work, and a 12-month workmanship guarantee on everything we complete.
Bathrooms without the middleman
Our bathroom team is in-house across all trades, so there's no coordinating three contractors who each blame the last one. One number to call, one team accountable for the finish.
Local conditions
What goes wrongin Edinburgh housing
Edinburgh has a lot of very old stone housing and a lot of very new build, with comparatively little in between. Both extremes create predictable plumbing and heating faults, and knowing which one you live in tells us a great deal before we arrive.
Pre-1919 tenements
Stone walls mean pipework is usually surface-run or chased into thin plaster, and successive owners have extended and re-routed it over a century. You get long dead legs, mixed copper, iron and plastic joined with whatever was in the van at the time, and cold runs through unheated common stairs. Shared risers also mean a fault in one flat shows up as a symptom in another, which is why proper isolation and testing matters more here than anywhere.
Conversions and subdivided flats
Where a large flat has been split, kitchens and bathrooms often sit where the drainage was never designed to serve them. Long horizontal waste runs with insufficient fall block repeatedly, and boiler flues end up in awkward positions. These are the jobs where a like-for-like swap quietly fails and a properly set-out installation lasts.
Cold, wet, wind-driven winters
Edinburgh doesn't get extreme cold so much as sustained damp cold with wind off the Forth. That's hard on external condensate pipes, which freeze and lock the boiler out on the coldest morning of the year, and on poorly lagged runs in lofts and unheated stairwells. Most of the December call-outs we take are entirely preventable with insulation and a service.
Ageing systems and sludge
Systems that have run for twenty years without ever being flushed accumulate magnetite. It settles in the bottom of radiators and in the heat exchanger, so the boiler works harder for less heat, the pump strains and the rooms furthest from the boiler never come up. Power flushing plus a magnetic filter usually recovers most of that performance without touching the boiler.
Newer developments
Newer Edinburgh homes come with pressurised, sealed systems and combis in tight cupboards. Faults here are less about corrosion and more about pressure loss, expansion vessels that have lost their charge, and controls nobody ever explained to the homeowner. A lot of the time the fix is small, the diagnosis is the part that needs doing properly.
Our process
How a Edinburgh jobruns, step by step
Step 1
First call
Tell us what's happening and where you are in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh 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
Edinburghquestions, 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 cover the whole of Edinburgh?
Yes. We work across Edinburgh and the surrounding Lothians, including Leith, Corstorphine, Currie, South Queensferry, Musselburgh, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg and Loanhead. If you're near the edge of that area, call 07788 373160 and we'll tell you straight away whether we can reach you.
How quickly can you get to me in Edinburgh?
We take reactive call-outs daily and we're based in the city, so travel isn't the limiting factor, availability is. We don't advertise a guaranteed response time because we'd rather give you an honest answer on the phone about whether we can be there today or later in the week, and tell you what to isolate in the meantime.
What does a job in Edinburgh cost?
We don't publish prices, because the same-sounding job varies enormously between a modern flat and a top-floor tenement. What we do is inspect, diagnose, and give you a written estimate before any work starts; so you approve a number rather than receive one.
Are you available for emergencies out of hours?
Our normal hours are 8am–4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 8am–1:30pm on Friday. We do take reactive call-outs for urgent problems like leaks and total loss of heating or hot water. Ring and we'll tell you honestly what we can do rather than take the booking and leave you waiting.
Are you Gas Safe registered?
Yes. All gas work is carried out by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Nobody who isn't registered should be touching a boiler, gas hob or gas fire in your home.
Do you work on Edinburgh tenement flats?
Constantly. Tenements are a large part of what we do, and we're used to shared stairs, shared water supplies, awkward access, stone walls and the sort of pipework that has been altered five times since 1900.
What guarantee do I get?
A 12-month workmanship guarantee on the work we complete. On new boilers, our Worcester Bosch Accredited Installer and Vaillant installer status lets us register a 10-year guarantee as standard, and up to 12 years on some models.
Do you do full bathrooms in Edinburgh, or just the plumbing?
Full bathrooms, and every trade is in-house. Strip-out, first fix, tiling, electrics, fitting and final seal, with one point of contact throughout. You aren't left project-managing three contractors.
Are you insured?
Yes, £2m public liability insurance is in place, and we're happy to confirm it before we start.
Do you work on commercial premises in Edinburgh?
No. We're a domestic plumbing and heating business: houses, flats and tenements only. That focus is deliberate.
Get an Edinburgh plumberwho explains the work
Tell us what's happening and where in Edinburgh you are. You'll get an honest answer about timing, a proper diagnosis, and a price before anything starts.
Gas Safe registered · £2m public liability · 12-month workmanship guarantee
Nearby areas we cover
Plumbing & heating in Leith
Same engineer, same guarantee, a few minutes down the road from Edinburgh.
Plumbing & heating in Corstorphine
Same engineer, same guarantee, a few minutes down the road from Edinburgh.
Plumbing & heating in Currie
Same engineer, same guarantee, a few minutes down the road from Edinburgh.
Plumbing & heating in Musselburgh
Same engineer, same guarantee, a few minutes down the road from Edinburgh.
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