Heating engineers based in Coventry, looking after boilers, heat pumps and home batteries in homes across Birmingham.
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Boilers, heat pumps and batteries for Birmingham homes
JLN Plumbing, Heating, Electrical & Renewables is a family-led team of heating engineers based in Coventry, working across Birmingham. Our office is at Meriden Business Park, about 11 miles from the city, and we've been fitting and looking after heating systems since 2007.
We're Gas Safe registered for boiler work, MCS certified for heat pumps and solar, NICEIC approved for the electrical side, Heat Geek-verified, and accredited installers for both Vaillant and Worcester Bosch. If you're looking for a heating engineer in Birmingham, here's how we can help:
- Boiler installation and replacement, including finding a flue route that meets the rules in a tightly packed terrace
- Annual boiler servicing, which keeps the manufacturer's warranty valid and catches problems before winter
- Boiler repairs, from a system that keeps losing pressure to radiators that stay cold at the bottom
- Air source heat pumps, designed room by room from a full heat-loss survey
- Battery storage, on its own or alongside solar panels
You can see every town we cover on our areas page.
Why This Area
From Moseley terraces to Jewellery Quarter flats
Birmingham's homes cover a lot of ground. Victorian and Edwardian terraces line the streets of Moseley and Kings Heath, Edgbaston has large Georgian and Victorian houses, Harborne and Stirchley have plenty of inter-war semis, and Digbeth and the Jewellery Quarter are full of converted warehouses and newer flats.
Each brings its own heating jobs. Many terraces have solid brick walls and the boiler in the back kitchen, with the flue going out into a narrow yard or a shared entry. The rules on how close a flue can sit to a window, a boundary or a neighbour's wall often decide where a new boiler can go. In flats it is usually space: a boiler squeezed into a cupboard, a flue that has to run a long way to an outside wall, and no garden for a heat pump.
Heat Pumps and Batteries
Will a heat pump work in an older Birmingham house?
Often it will, but only a proper survey can tell you. When we visited a five-bedroom Arts and Crafts house in Birmingham, featured in the Financial Times, our room-by-room heat-loss survey showed it needed loft and wall insulation first. Without it, a heat pump would have had to work much harder and cost more to run. We recommended doing the insulation, then fitting the heat pump, at a net cost of £8,650 after the Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant.
That is how we approach every air source heat pump. We work out the heat loss of each room, then check whether the radiators can heat it at the lower temperatures a heat pump runs at. As an MCS certified installer, our installs can qualify for the grant, and we'll tell you plainly if a heat pump isn't right for your home, such as a flat with nowhere to put the outdoor unit.
A home battery stores cheaper overnight electricity, or what your solar panels make during the day, for use in the evening. As NICEIC approved electricians we fit and connect it ourselves, and we can add one to an existing solar system.
Common Challenges
Soft water, sludge and tired boilers
Much of Birmingham's water comes from the Elan Valley in Wales and is soft, so limescale is less of a problem here than in Coventry. The faults that matter more in older systems are sludge, which leaves radiators cold at the bottom, systems that keep losing pressure, and ageing combi boilers working flat out in solid-wall terraces.
A boiler repair deals with the fault, and an annual boiler service is the best way to catch problems before they fail on a cold morning. Our service scheme spreads the cost over 12 monthly payments.
If your boiler is past repairing, a new boiler should be sized for your home, not just swapped like for like. A larger Edgbaston house with two bathrooms may be better with a system boiler and hot water cylinder, while a combi often suits a terrace or flat.
Talk to us about your Birmingham home
Tell us what's happening with your heating, or what you're thinking of changing, and we'll get back to you. Our office is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm, and Saturday from 9am to 1pm.
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