No Heating or Hot Water in Bath?
Bath's Georgian stock is a masterclass in conservation-sensitive heating work — listed constraints everywhere, hard limestone water throughout, and pipework histories older than most companies. System age tracks housing age, which is why no-heat patterns differ street to street across Bath — and why engineers with local mileage diagnose faster than a national call centre's script ever could.
Heating but no hot water — or the reverse
Split symptoms shorten diagnosis. Combi owners in Bath with heating but no hot water are usually looking at a stuck diverter or scale-blocked plate exchanger; hot water but no heating flips the same suspects. Cylinder systems add their own suspects — zone valves, pumps, cylinder thermostats. Tell us which half works and the engineer arrives with the right parts shortlist.
Why boilers fail in cold snaps
Cold weather is a stress test. Marginal pumps, tired expansion vessels and hesitant igniters all pass it in September and fail it in December. Add the condensate-freeze lockouts that arrive with the first hard frost — particularly on pipes run externally without lagging, common across Bath and the wider Somerset area — and the seasonal spike explains itself. A pre-winter service catches most of it early; the emergency line catches the rest.
Emergency pricing, straight
Emergency attendance in Bath runs from £125 covering call-out and the first hour, quoted on the phone before dispatch. Parts are priced before fitting. If your situation can safely wait for a next-day standard slot at a lower rate — heating down but hot water working in mild weather, say — we'll tell you that instead of dispatching an emergency you don't need.
How fast can help reach Bath?
Response into Bath works on nearest-engineer dispatch: the line takes the job with your boiler make and error code, the closest available Gas Safe engineer accepts it, and you get a direct call with their arrival window and the rate confirmed before they travel.
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Frequently asked questions
My boiler pressure is at zero — is that the fault?
Very likely part of it. Below about 0.5 bar most boilers lock out. Top up to 1–1.5 bar via the filling loop and press reset. If pressure falls again within hours or days there's a leak or a failed component, and that needs an engineer — repeated topping-up is a symptom, not a fix.
Is a frozen condensate pipe really that common?
In the first hard frost, it's the single most common cause of boiler lockout in the UK. The white plastic pipe running outside freezes, the boiler senses the blockage and shuts down. Warm — not boiling — water over the frozen section, then reset, restores most of them. Lagging the pipe stops the repeat.
Do you prioritise households with children or elderly residents?
Yes. Tell us when you call — no-heat triage runs on severity and vulnerability, and households with young children, elderly or medically vulnerable residents move up the rota at no premium.
Will you charge me a call-out just to press reset?
We try hard to prevent exactly that: the phone triage walks you through pressure, condensate, thermostat and reset checks first, free. If an engineer attends and finds a genuine fault, normal rates apply; the checks exist so you don't pay for a visit a jug of warm water would have solved.