Heating Engineers in Wakefield

Local Heating Engineers for Wakefield

We cover the whole of Wakefield from our base in Wath upon Dearne, about 14 miles to the south east: the city centre, Belle Vue, Agbrigg, Eastmoor and Outwood; Sandal, Walton, Kettlethorpe, Newmillerdam, Lupset, Thornes, Alverthorpe and Wrenthorpe; Stanley, Lofthouse and Carlton to the north; Crofton, Sharlston, Ryhill and Havercroft to the south east; Horbury, Crigglestone, Durkar, Netherton and Middlestown to the south west; and Ossett and Gawthorpe to the west.

We are Gas Safe registered (584578), Heat Geek Assured and DBS checked. Our engineers work Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm, and we will get to you the same day where we can during office hours, for £30 extra.

Wakefield's Homes

Wakefield grew as a market and cloth town on the River Calder, and later on coal. Within two miles of Crofton alone there were three collieries, Nostell, Walton and Sharlston, and mining carried on there until the 1980s. In the early 1900s Lord St Oswald built houses at New Crofton for the Nostell miners. They were pulled down in the 1980s after subsidence damage and the pit closures, and a new estate went up on the land. Crofton has had new housing built in every decade since the 1950s and is now mostly a commuter village.

Ossett's story is cloth. The town made shoddy and mungo, wool recycled from rags and old clothes, and had more than forty mills in the 1850s. The mill owners grew wealthy and built detached Victorian villas in the town.

So a week in Wakefield for us can take in a Victorian house in Ossett, a post-war semi near the city, and a 1970s or 1980s detached house on one of the Crofton estates. Each has a different heating story, and very often it starts with the original system still in place.

Tank-fed systems

A lot of houses built from the 1950s to the 1980s, here and across Yorkshire, went in with a tank-fed system: a heat-only boiler, a copper hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard, and cold water tanks in the loft. Many still have one. It works, but the shower is only as strong as the drop from the loft tank allows, the cylinder takes time to heat back up, and the tanks and cylinder take up space.

Changing to a combi removes all three, as our Crofton job below shows. It is not right for every house. Where two showers are often used at once, a system boiler with an unvented cylinder usually does a better job. A combi heats water straight from the mains, so how well it performs depends on the supply into the house, and that is one of the things a quote visit is for.

A Combi Upgrade in Crofton

In August 2025 we upgraded the heating in a detached house in Crofton, the village about four miles south east of Wakefield city centre. It had a tank-fed system, with a heat-only boiler in the garage and a copper cylinder in the airing cupboard, and the customer wanted to change to a combi.

We took out the old boiler and the cylinder and fitted an Ideal Vogue Max 32kW combi in the garage, where the old boiler had been. Because we are Ideal Max Accredited installers, it carries a 12-year warranty. The airing cupboard was being knocked through as part of the customer's own building work, so rather than just cutting the old cylinder pipework back inside the cupboard, we rerouted it under the floor and out of the way.

The result is more efficient heating, hot water on demand, and strong showers without any extra pumps, because the hot and cold water now both come at mains pressure.

Replacing a combi with another combi? Price it online in a few minutes. A change from a tank-fed system to a combi needs a quote visit first, which you can ask for on the same page. See boiler installation for the boilers we fit.

What We Do in Wakefield

All prices include VAT and are our Band A prices, which cover every Wakefield postcode from WF1 to WF5.

• Boiler servicing — the yearly check that keeps your boiler safe, efficient and inside its warranty. £132, or £192 with an unvented cylinder done at the same visit.
• Boiler repairs — fault finding and repair. £132 covering the first hour, then 15-minute steps, with parts quoted before we fit them.
• New boilers — Worcester Bosch and Ideal, supplied and fitted from £2,200. Changing from tanks to a combi? We quote after a visit.
• Air source heat pumps — designed around a room-by-room heat loss survey. Grant-funded installs go through Heat Geek. Currently grants of £7,500 are available, taken off the price rather than claimed back.
• Heat pump servicing — £264, with the hot water cylinder included. Repairs are £264 for the first hour.
• Air conditioning — mini split and multi split systems by UberCool, installed, serviced and repaired. They heat as well as cool.
• System flushing — from a £420 mains flush to a £780 power flush with MagnaCleanse, covering up to ten radiators.
• Landlord gas safety certificates — £132 for the CP12, emailed to you once the check is done.