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Stantonbury and Bradville sit in the north of the city and include a substantial amount of rental and former council housing alongside owner-occupied property. Parts of Bradville have been through council regeneration investment.
That mix means a large share of what we do here is landlord work rather than homeowner work, and the two run on completely different clocks. A homeowner calls when something breaks. A landlord has an obligation that comes round every twelve months whether anything has broken or not.
Based in Two Mile Ash, around ten minutes away. Gas Safe registered, registration number 981362.
- Gas Safe registered 981362
- Around ten minutes from Two Mile Ash
- We can arrange tenant access directly
- Booked work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm
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If you let property here
The annual obligation: a gas safety check on every gas appliance and flue by a Gas Safe registered engineer, the record to existing tenants within 28 days and to new tenants before they move in, records kept two years. No grace period, and it carries criminal exposure rather than just a fine.
Three things worth using:
- Bring the check forward. You can do it up to two months before expiry without losing your original anniversary date. That is how you move an inconvenient renewal permanently, get ahead of the autumn rush, or align several properties onto a single visit.
- Book the service at the same time. A gas safety check is not a service. The check confirms the appliance is safe on the day. The service cleans and maintains it and keeps the manufacturer warranty valid. A property can pass a check while running a boiler that will not survive the winter. One visit, both jobs, one access arrangement.
- Let us arrange access. Tenants not letting an engineer in is the commonest reason a certificate lapses, and the landlord remains liable regardless. Give us the tenant’s details and we will sort it.
The void period is the cheapest time to do anything
If you have a changeover, use it. An empty property needs no access arrangement, causes no tenant disruption and can be scheduled properly.
Worth doing between tenancies: test every isolating valve and the stopcock, check for slow leaks under sinks and behind appliances, do the food colouring test on every toilet cistern, descale shower heads, and bleed radiators. A boiler that will fail in January usually shows signs in September.
If you own the house
Stantonbury and Bradville are largely 1970s development, which puts most properties on their third boiler now, with fifty years of accumulated magnetite in systems that have often never been cleaned, and gravity hot water in the original arrangement.
Cold at the bottom of a radiator points to sludge, which bleeding will not fix. We test the system water rather than assuming a flush is needed. See power flushing and central heating repairs.
Hard water, which hits rentals harder
Same Anglian Water supply as the rest of the city, around 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate against a UK average of 207.
In a rented property nobody has an incentive to descale anything, so scale arrives as a repair call rather than being prevented. Seized shower cartridges and scaled combi heat exchangers are the two that recur. Specifying shower valves with readily available cartridges is worth doing in a rental for that reason alone. See our hard water guide.
Getting to Stantonbury
Around ten minutes from Two Mile Ash. Close, so out of hours callouts here are practical.
Frequently asked questions
Can you deal with my tenants directly?
Yes. Give us their contact details and we will arrange access and send you the paperwork.
Can I get the gas safety check done early?
Yes, up to two months before expiry, keeping your original anniversary date.
Is the certificate the same as a service?
No. The check confirms safety on the day. The service maintains the appliance and keeps the warranty valid. We normally do both on one visit.
My radiators are cold at the bottom. Do I need a flush?
Possibly. Cold at the bottom does point to sludge, and bleeding will not fix it. We test the water rather than assuming.
Do you cover Bradville and New Bradwell?
Yes, along with Blue Bridge, Linford Wood and Great Linford.
What we do in Stantonbury
Where we cover in Stantonbury
- Stantonbury
- Bradville
- Blue Bridge
- Linford Wood
- New Bradwell
- Great Linford
Get in touch
Call 07514 312117 or send a WhatsApp. Gas Safe registered 981362, CIPHE member, fully insured.