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Netherfield is one of the earliest estates in Milton Keynes and one of the most worked on. It went up in the first half of the 1970s as a large rental scheme, originally with a strikingly uniform roofline, and it has been altered, extended, re-roofed and repaired more or less continuously since.
It is also one of the estates the council has been investing in through its regeneration programme, which means some residents here are dealing with work happening to their homes rather than work they have chosen.
Based in Two Mile Ash, around fifteen minutes away. Gas Safe registered, registration number 981362.
- Gas Safe registered 981362
- Around fifteen minutes from Two Mile Ash
- We will tell you if it is the landlord's job, not ours
- Booked work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm
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If work is being done to your home
Worth knowing where the line falls, because it saves you paying for something that is not yours to pay for.
- If the work is part of a council or landlord programme, the heating and plumbing elements of it are theirs to arrange and theirs to fund. Report the problem through that route first, not to a private plumber.
- If you own your home, whether through right to buy or a later purchase, the position depends on what is being done and to what. Communal elements and the building fabric may be covered. What is inside your property and yours to maintain generally is not.
- If you are unsure, ask before you commission anything. We would rather tell you to go back to the landlord than take the job.
Where we do get called: work outside any programme, private owners in a mixed-tenure street, and everything once a programme finishes.
Fifty years of alterations
The plumbing consequence of a heavily altered estate is joints. Every extension, every re-fit, every boiler change and every bathroom over five decades is a set of connections, and connections are where systems fail.
What that produces in practice:
- Failures cluster at old work rather than at original pipe. Soldered joints that have been heated more than once, compression fittings tightened by successive hands, and fittings buried where nobody expected them to need attention again.
- Nobody has a full picture of where anything runs. Before drilling into a floor or wall, assume there is something in there. If you are having work done, photograph pipework before it disappears behind plasterboard. It costs nothing and it is worth a great deal in ten years.
- Third generation boilers. Originals long gone, first replacements now past their life, and many properties due again.
- Fifty years of magnetite in systems that have often never been cleaned. Cold at the bottom of a radiator points to sludge, and bleeding will not fix it. We test the system water rather than assuming a flush is needed. See power flushing and central heating repairs.
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. Very hard.
On a sealed heating system the water is not replaced, so the heating circuit is largely protected. The exception is a system being topped up regularly, which is effectively fed fresh hard water every few weeks. If you are reaching for the filling loop often, the leak is the problem rather than the pressure. See our hard water guide.
Getting to Netherfield
Around fifteen minutes from Two Mile Ash. Fine for booked work and for out of hours callouts.
Frequently asked questions
Work is being done to my block. Do I need a plumber?
Probably not for anything inside that programme. Report it through the landlord or the programme first. We will tell you if it sounds like theirs rather than take the job.
I bought my house here. Who fixes what?
Communal elements and building fabric may sit with the landlord or freeholder. What is inside your property is generally yours. Worth confirming before commissioning work.
My radiators are cold at the bottom. Flush needed?
Possibly. Cold at the bottom points to sludge and bleeding will not fix it, but we test the system water rather than assuming.
Why do things keep failing at the joints?
Because fifty years of alterations means a lot of joints, and joints are where systems fail. Original pipe is often in better condition than the work done to it.
Do you cover Beanhill and Coffee Hall?
Yes, along with Tinkers Bridge, Eaglestone, Woughton on the Green and Peartree Bridge.
What we do in Netherfield
Where we cover in Netherfield
- Netherfield
- Beanhill
- Coffee Hall
- Tinkers Bridge
- Eaglestone
- Woughton on the Green
- Peartree Bridge
Get in touch
Call 07514 312117 or send a WhatsApp. Gas Safe registered 981362, CIPHE member, fully insured.