GAS APPLIANCE
INSTALLATION & SERVICING
CENTRAL HEATING
LANDLORD GAS CHECKS
INSTALLATION & SERVICING
CENTRAL HEATING
LANDLORD GAS CHECKS
Some items that may be of interest, some recent and some highlights from the past...
The UK Government, in its wisdom, is proposing to impose what is effectively a tax on gas boilers sold next year.
They are doing this in the form of a fine to boiler manufacturers. In their attempt to force people to install heat pumps instead of high efficiency gas boilers, the Government is suggesting setting targets for manufacturers to sell an amount of heat pumps instead of boilers. For every heat pump they fall short of the target, they are to be fined, and figures of £5000 have been mentioned. Obviously, manufacturers will have to pass these fines / costs on in the form of increased pricing. This in turn will affect the cost of a new gas boiler.
While the issue of trying to force people to have heat pumps installed instead of boilers is a tricky issue, and people have different views, the increased costs are very likely.
Anyone with a boiler around 10-12 years old should consider the performance and availability of spare parts for their current boiler. With the approaching situation it is likely to be far cheaper to replace a boiler in the coming months than from January 2024. While you might not be thinking about replacing your boiler at this time, it is worth thinking about it ahead of any price increases, rather than you find out next year that a boiler costs considerably more than it does now.
Feel free to contact us to discuss any concerns you may have or to discuss this more.
Just completed our latest inspection with Gas Safe Register. All ok
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In addition to Honeywell's EvoHome controls, we have started to fit
smart controls from Tado and have completed their online training to
become more familiar with their controls.
Since then, we have fitted the Tado smart control in our own home to evaluate its options - so far, so good. click here to visit our new Tado page
We have decided to stop providing the 0800 freephone number. While this meant customers could ring us for free, it was not free to us - we had to pay a monthly fee plus a per-call charge. With ever-increasing costs, we decided to remove the feature. We hope this is not too much inconvenience to customers and would like to remind them that we can be conacted by phone / email / text - contact us
Some web browsers are now showing a warning saying that this website is not secure, don't worry. Google have changed their rules about all websites and are trying to get everyone to use the HTTPS protocol, which is fine for sites where you enter personal data, but not necessary for this site, as there is NO personal data stored on the site. The site does NOT use cookies, or ask you to enter anything personal to you.
We will try to be as cost effective as possible - please contact us to discuss any requirements you may have.
Please contact us to discuss any requirements you may have.
Please contact us to discuss any requirements you may have.
Please contact us to discuss any requirements you may have.
Certain Worcester Bosch Greenstar boilers now have a 12 (yes TWELVE!) year parts and labour guarantee. This is an amazing offer and means customers buying a new Greenstar Life / Style boiler get peace of mind for 12 years.
Please contact us for more details and to get a free (obviously!) quotation.
We can fit a
Honeywell heating control that provides wireless access to your central
heating boiler, PLUS, remote access through an app. This allows control of
your boiler while away from home - ideal for people who do not work regular
hours, or who want to put heating on or off while away from home. Now is a
good time to organise new heating controls, ready for the winter.
Contact us for more details.
This is the redesigned Harry Willis Limited website. Please feel free to contact us with comments, suggestions, or just to say 'hello'!
Website designed and built by Harry Willis, using CSS and standard HTML, without Javascript.
Tested in various browsers. Seems to work fine, other than some text resizing issues in Opera and Firefox - if you use these browsers and resize the text, strange things may happen! While it may be nice to spend time to correct these problems, there are more essential things to be done, here in internet land and real life.
Some web browsers are now showing a warning saying that this website is not secure, don't worry. Google have changed their rules about all websites and are trying to get everyone to use the HTTPS protocol, which is fine for site where you enter personal data, but not necessary for this site, as there is NO personal data stored on the site. The site does NOT use cookies, or ask you to enter anything personal to you.
Having had previous van for a few years, it was time to find another one. I know that some customers think along the lines of 'well if he has a new van, he must be rolling in it', or similar. Those people can rest assured that the van is not brand new, he is not rolling in it, and the van will be paid for in three years time!
We have started using an electronic record keeping system, instead of the paper-based method. This is to reduce the amount of paper we use, and store, and to generally improve the details we keep.
During visits, instead of writing on expensive pads of pre-printed forms, we use an electronic system to record details of the address and findings from the work we carry out. These details can be printed if needed, but ideally we can provide the documents by email, saving paper and printer ink. This helps reduce costs, and the amount of paper records we have to store.
It would be appreciated that those customers who use email would let us provide documentation (including invoices) electronically. We promise not to use email addresses for any other reason than to send the documents relating to the work we carry out.
We are aware of at least one national company (who's name we aren't going to repeat here!) that claim to be able to install a Worcester Bosch boiler with a 10 year guarantee, for a lot less than we can. Having looked at their website, we can see a few things that need further consideration:
There is a lot to consider when selecting a new boiler and installer. We do not feel this can be done simply on a website, if you want to make sure you get the best boiler solution, sited in the best position, and installed by a good installer, of YOUR choice. Contact us for more details.
Undertaken training with Honeywell on their new evoHome control system. See Honeywell's website for more information, and contact us to discuss the possibilities to remotely control your heating system via the internet and your phone. As well as offering remote control of your heating system evoHome allows you to divide your heating system into zones and control each zone according to your needs and save money by reducing your energy costs....more
We were first registered as a limited company in 2003 and have been working as a small business for coming up to 20 years - thank you to all cutomers for supporting us during this time.
We have a profile on Facebook, and on Twitter, but have found that customers rarely contact us this way. Email is far better for getting in touch, as we check that more regularly than Twitter or Facebook.
We can take payment by debit card, but for larger jobs we prefer bank transfer, or cheque, to avoid high card fees.
We can be contacted by telephone on our usual mobile number.
We can be very busy but if you leave a message, we will ring you back as soon as we can.
We can be contacted by email using the address shown below and we will reply as soon as possible.
We are Registered with Gas Safe Register and believe that it is essential that customers understand how seriously we take this.
Please feel free to check our registration at the Gas Safe Register website