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Caldecotte is two things next to each other: lakeside housing around Caldecotte Lake, and a business park with offices and light industrial units.
We work in both, and they need genuinely different conversations, so this page covers each in turn.
Based in Two Mile Ash, around twenty minutes across the city. Gas Safe registered, registration number 981362.
- Gas Safe registered 981362
- Around twenty minutes across the city
- Offices, shops and small units, not larger industrial plant
- Booked work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm
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If you are a business here
The considerations that matter are different from a home, and mostly they come down to downtime.
- A failure that stops you trading is urgent in a way a domestic one is not. Tell us that when you call, because it changes how we prioritise and what we bring. We cover out of hours for exactly this reason.
- Access and working hours. Some units can only take disruptive work outside business hours, and some need work signed off or supervised. Worth agreeing at the point of booking rather than on the day.
- Compliance obligations differ. Non-domestic gas installations have their own duties, and depending on your premises and use you may have water hygiene or backflow prevention requirements that a house never has. Tell us the building type and what happens in it, and we will be straight about what we cover and what needs a specialist.
- Landlord and tenant splits. In leased commercial premises, the repairing obligations depend on the lease rather than on general rules, and they vary far more than residential ones do. Worth establishing before commissioning work.
We cover offices, shops and small commercial units
Larger industrial plant is outside what we do, and we will say so rather than take it on.
If you live by the lake
Caldecotte Lake is one of the balancing lakes that manage surface water across Milton Keynes rather than an ornamental feature, and property near it brings the water-adjacent considerations we see across the city’s lakeside areas.
- External and outbuilding pipe runs are more exposed. Anything unheated near water runs colder. Lag it properly rather than nominally.
- The outside tap is the predictable winter failure. Fit an internal isolating valve if there is not one, then each autumn close it, open the tap and let the external section drain. An empty pipe cannot split. See outdoor tap installation.
- Know where your stopcock is. Good practice everywhere, better practice near water. See our stopcock guide.
Worth having sorted in any commercial premises
Three things that are easy to arrange in advance and expensive to sort during a failure:
- Know where the incoming stop valve is and make sure more than one person on site does. In a unit where nobody knows, a burst runs until someone finds it.
- Know which isolation serves what. In a multi-occupancy building, turning off the wrong valve affects a neighbour’s business as well as yours.
- Have the annual gas safety work diarised rather than remembered. Non-domestic gas installations carry their own duties, and a lapsed record is easier to avoid than to explain.
The housing
Largely 1980s and 1990s estate housing around the lake. Second and third generation boilers, gravity hot water in many of the older properties where converting to an unvented cylinder is the biggest single improvement available, and systems old enough that the water condition is worth testing rather than assuming.
Hard water
Same Anglian Water supply as the rest of Milton Keynes, around 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate against a UK average of 207. In commercial premises with catering or washroom facilities the effect shows up faster, simply because of throughput. See our hard water guide.
Getting to Caldecotte
Around twenty minutes from Two Mile Ash. Fine for booked work and out of hours.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work on commercial premises?
Yes, for offices, shops and small commercial units, including out of hours where a failure is stopping you trading. Larger industrial plant is outside what we do.
Can you work outside business hours?
Yes, and it is often the sensible arrangement for anything disruptive in an occupied unit.
My outside tap froze last winter.
Fit an internal isolating valve if there is not one, then drain the external section every autumn and leave the tap open.
Who is responsible in a leased unit?
It depends on the lease rather than on any general rule, and commercial leases vary considerably. Worth establishing before commissioning work.
Do you cover Walnut Tree and Bow Brickhill?
Yes, along with Browns Wood, Old Farm Park, Tilbrook and Simpson.
What we do in Caldecotte
Where we cover in Caldecotte
- Caldecotte
- Walnut Tree
- Browns Wood
- Old Farm Park
- Tilbrook
- Bow Brickhill
- Simpson
Get in touch
Call 07514 312117 or send a WhatsApp, and say whether it is a home or a business premises. Gas Safe registered 981362, CIPHE member, fully insured.