Heating Engineers in Rotherham, Based in Wath upon Dearne

Local Heating Engineers for Rotherham

UberHeats works out of Wath upon Dearne, a few miles up the Dearne from Rotherham town centre. That makes Rotherham the patch we know best: Parkgate and Rawmarsh, Greasbrough and Kimberworth, Wickersley, Bramley and Maltby, Thrybergh and East Dene, and the Dearne Valley villages from Brampton to Thurnscoe, Mexborough and Swinton.

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

Rotherham Homes, Steel and Coal

Rotherham grew on iron, steel and coal. Parkgate Ironworks opened in 1823, and at its peak the Templeborough steelworks, now the Magna science centre, was more than a mile long and employed 10,000 people. The pits ran along the Dearne and the Don, with Manvers Main and Wath Main on our own doorstep.

That history is still in the houses. Terraced streets built for steelworkers and miners, estates from the middle of the last century, and a lot of newer homes on reclaimed colliery land around Manvers and the Dearne Valley. Each brings its own heating work:

• Older terraces often have pipework that has been altered bit by bit over the decades, so a fault in one room can start somewhere else entirely
• Mid-century semis often have a boiler that has been swapped two or three times into the same cupboard, with the controls never updated
• Newer homes, particularly on the Manvers side, are more likely to have heat pumps, unvented cylinders and smart controls

Hard water

Rotherham's water is hard. Published figures put S60 at around 213 mg of calcium carbonate per litre and S63 at around 235. That limescale settles in boiler heat exchangers, on immersion heaters and in valves, which is why we check for it on every service and why every combi boiler we fit comes with a scale reducer.

A Heat Pump Repair in Wath upon Dearne

In the winter of 2022 we had a call from a detached house in Wath. No heating, no hot water, and the Samsung heat pump showing an E911 error on its display.

E911 on a Samsung heat pump means the unit is not detecting water flowing through it, and without that it will not come on. It is a protection: a heat pump running with no flow could damage itself. The question is always whether the water really has stopped moving, or whether the part that detects it has failed.

Here it was the part. The flow switch had failed and was not registering the flow, so the heat pump stayed off. We fitted a new flow switch and everything came back: heating and hot water both working.

It is a good example of testing before fitting. Guessing at a pump or draining the system would have cost more and fixed nothing. See air source heat pump repair for how we find faults like this.

What We Do in Rotherham

All prices include VAT and are our standard rate, which covers every Rotherham postcode except S25.

• Boiler servicing — the yearly check that keeps your boiler safe, efficient and inside its warranty. £114, or £174 with an unvented cylinder done at the same visit.
• Boiler repairs — fault finding and repair. £114 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. Replacing like for like? Price it online in a few minutes.
• Air source heat pumps — designed around a room-by-room heat loss survey. Grant-funded installs go through Heat Geek, with the £7,500 Boiler Upgrade Scheme grant taken off the price.
• Heat pump servicing — £240, with the hot water cylinder included. Repairs are £240 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 £390 mains flush to a £750 power flush with MagnaCleanse, covering up to ten radiators.
• Landlord gas safety certificates — £114 for the CP12, emailed to you once the check is done.