Services
AB Plumbing of Shotts in Lanarkshire can offer a variety of services from general maintenance to installation of a new Central Heating System. We are a Gas Safe Registered company with Gas Safe and OFTEC registered engineers.
Some of the services we offer:
• Boiler changes / upgrades
• Cylinder Changes
• Boiler Repairs
• Boilers and Magnaclean maintenance products
• Central Heating Maintenance
• Full Central Heating Systems
• Power Flush
• Radiator changes
• Bathrooms
• Blocked sinks & drains
• Tap repair & changes
• New sinks & waste problems
• Landlords Safety Certificates
• Solar Systems
There are three types of condensing boiler available which we can fit:
Combination boilers: A 'combi' boiler eliminates the need to store hot water so there is no hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard. (A small radiator can be installed in the airing cupboard so that the airing cupboard can still be used.) The boiler is both a high efficiency water heater and central heating boiler. It runs 'on demand' and provides hot water to the heating system in the house or flat.
System boilers are referred to as sealed system boilers because the system is filled to approx. 1 bar pressure and sealed. They are connected to a hot water storage cylinder, usually installed in the airing cupboard. This type of boiler does not need an expansion tank in the roof. They are particularly good for homes with more than one bathroom because the combination of boiler and hot water cylinder can deliver hot water quickly to several outlets simultaneously.
Open vent boilers: Open vent systems are normally connected to two tanks in the loft. A small 'feed and expansion tank' supplies water to the boiler and the radiators. A larger domestic cold water storage tank provides the cold water feed to an open vent hot water cylinder. Although replacing the boiler and linking it to an existing open vent system is an option, most people opt to remove the tanks from the loft and to install a sealed system boiler or a 'combi'.
Condensing boilers convert over 90% of the fuel they use into useful heat compared to around 60% from older, conventional boilers.
Why not help the environment and install a Solar System?
Solar systems - Using radiation from the sun, a sophisticated solar collector is used to transfer the maximum amount of energy possible into a fluid which runs through the collector and which is then used to indirectly heat water in a storage cylinder.
As solar thermal technology does not rely on sunlight but on solar radiation, it can work efficiently in our climate to provide around 50-70% of annual domestic hot water requirements.
AB Plumbing, Shotts for all your boiler, central heating and plumbing repairs throughout West Lothian, Lanarkshire, Falkirk and Central Scotland.