New Boiler Installation & Replacement in Ongar — Fitted Within 72 Hours
Chipping Ongar's High Street was laid out under the walls of a Norman castle, and the castle still shapes the plumbing. On the west side of the street the plots run long and narrow away from the road — and over the centuries those long back gardens have filled with the extensions that make the houses what they are today, one behind another. On the east side the plots stop short, cut off by the castle's inner bailey. Two sides of one street, two completely different installation jobs.
- Most new boilers installed within 72 hours of survey
- Pipe runs planned for houses that go back further than they go across
- Boiler position chosen for the whole system, not just the kitchen
- Rear flue and condensate routes settled at the survey
- Gas Safe registered — registration verifiable online
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Continue on WhatsAppA long, thin house asks a specific question: where does the boiler go when the kitchen is at the back of the third extension and the bathroom is at the front, two rooms and forty feet of pipework away? Answer it lazily and you get the classic long-plot complaints — a lukewarm far radiator and a long wait for hot water at the furthest tap. We fit new boilers across Ongar and its villages with most installations completed within 72 hours of the survey, and in this town the survey starts with a tape measure run front to back.
How an Ongar boiler installation works
Four steps from first message to a commissioned boiler — with the boiler-position question answered for the house's full depth, not just the room it hangs in.
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WhatsApp us
Send a photo of your current boiler and a line about the house — and if it's one of the long High Street plots or has been extended to the rear, say so. Depth matters more than age here.
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Survey
We measure the system the house actually has: run lengths front to back, where the demand sits, whether the boiler's current position still makes sense, and how the flue and condensate get out. You get a fixed written quote — and where moving the boiler would fix a long-standing cold end, both options priced side by side.
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Installation
Old boiler out, system cleansed and inhibited, new boiler in, magnetic filter fitted, system balanced along its full length, commissioned and demonstrated. A like-for-like swap is typically done in a day.
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Aftercare
We register the warranty, handle the building regulations notification, and cover our workmanship with 12 months' aftercare. An annual service keeps the manufacturer warranty valid.
Long plots, long pipe runs — and why balancing matters more here
A house that grew backwards down a long plot ends up with its heating system stretched thin: the boiler stays wherever it was first hung, each extension adds radiators to the far end of the run, and the system that results was never designed as a whole. The symptoms are predictable — the room furthest from the boiler heats last and coolest, the shower furthest from the boiler waits longest for hot water — and they don't fix themselves with a bigger boiler, which is the mistake we most often see quoted elsewhere. They fix with design: the right boiler position for the house's full depth, pipework sized for the run, and a proper balance across every radiator when the work is done.
Replacement day is the cheap moment to correct all of this, because the connections are being remade anyway. Where the survey shows the boiler is simply in the wrong place for the house the plot produced, we price the repositioned installation alongside the straight swap so you can see exactly what the move buys.
A conservation-area High Street, treated with respect
The town centre — castle mound, church and the High Street between them — sits in a conservation area, and some properties are listed. Where a new or relocated flue touches that status, we give you our written assessment of whether consent comes into play and, where genuine doubt exists, confirm with the local planning authority before work starts; the final say is theirs, and we treat it that way. For most rear-facing work on the long plots, the practical answer is that the street elevation never changes — which is one more argument for planning the route out the back.
Ongar's water: 362 ppm, and the specification takes it seriously
CM5 measures around 362 ppm — very hard, up with the stiffest readings we work in anywhere on our patch. At that level an unprotected heat exchanger doesn't degrade gradually; it furs up on a schedule. Every Ongar installation therefore gets the full baseline without discussion — chemical cleanse before connection, inhibitor, magnetic filter — and this is one of the towns where scale protection beyond the baseline genuinely earns consideration, particularly in households with heavy hot water use. The survey settles the level; the quote states it in writing.
One firm, the whole job, in writing
From a straight swap in a modern house on the outskirts to a repositioned boiler in a long-plot house on the High Street — where the heritage railway rolls past the end of the town — the process is the same: a real survey, a fixed written quote, and most installations completed within 72 hours of the survey. Where a job needs longer, the timescale is agreed in writing before anything starts.
Boiler Installation FAQs — Ongar
New boiler in Ongar?
Message us on WhatsApp with a photo of your current boiler and a line about the house — especially how far back it goes. We'll survey the full depth, quote in writing, and complete most installations within 72 hours of the survey.
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