New boiler quotes in Bath.
Three quotes from Gas Safe registered engineers who actually cover your postcode, not a call centre eighty miles away.
- Covering BA1, BA2 and the wider Somerset
- Your job reaches them in about 60 seconds
- Three engineers maximum, then it closes
- Every one checked on the Gas Safe Register
Get three Bath quotes.
- Three quotes from Gas Safe engineers in your postcode
- Compare prices and opinions before you commit
- A maximum of three, then it closes
- Free to you, and no obligation
Engineers covering Bath.
Every one checked on the Gas Safe Register before they join.
- Gas Safe registration number verified against the public register
- A registered business with a real address, not a mobile and a van
- Coverage confirmed for the postcode areas they say they work in
- We ask homeowners how the job went, and act on the answer
You can check any engineer's registration yourself at gassaferegister.co.uk before work begins. Ask to see the card. Any decent engineer expects you to.
What a boiler swap usually looks like in Bath.
Across Bath and North East Somerset the 2021 Census found 28.7 per cent of households in semis, 27.2 per cent in terraces, 22.3 per cent detached, 13.5 per cent in purpose-built flats and 5.9 per cent in converted houses, the last reflecting how many Georgian terraces in Bathwick, Lansdown and Widcombe are now flats. Bath itself is more terraced than the district, with Victorian artisan terraces in Oldfield Park, Twerton and Larkhall. Semis and estate housing sit on the hills at Southdown, Odd Down, Whiteway, Foxhill and Weston, and Bath Riverside and Mulberry Park are the main recent developments.
In a Georgian terrace the boiler is often in a basement kitchen or rear return, and reaching open air can mean a long flue run to a light well or up several floors, so the job is planned around the flue before the boiler is chosen; a system boiler with an unvented cylinder is common where a large house has several bathrooms. The Oldfield Park terraces are simpler, usually a combi swap through a rear kitchen wall with a scale reducer for the hard water. On the hillside estates a heat-only boiler and cylinder are still the starting point, and conversion to a combi is routine.
We deliberately don't put a figure on this page, because nobody can price a boiler from a postcode. The cost calculator will give you a realistic range for a property like yours in under a minute, and three quotes for your actual job give you the real answer.
Getting three quotes matters more on a conversion
On a straight replacement the prices tend to cluster. On a cylinder-to-combi conversion they do not: how the engineer plans to route the pipework, whether a system flush is included and what happens to the cupboard afterwards can each move the number by hundreds. Three quotes is not about haggling. It is about seeing three different opinions on how the work should be done.
Whoever you go with must be Gas Safe registered. It is against the law for anyone else to work on your gas boiler, and you can check any engineer's registration number yourself before they start.
Finding a boiler engineer in Bath
Our engineers cover BA1, BA2 and the wider Somerset area, and those codes are examples rather than a limit. Rather than ringing round yourself, you fill in one form and we pass it to up to three Gas Safe registered engineers who work in your postcode. They contact you, they quote, and you decide.
Ask all three the same questions
Is the price fixed or an estimate? Does it include a power flush or just a chemical clean? Is a magnetic filter included, since most manufacturer warranties require one? Who notifies building control? A good engineer in Bath will not mind being asked, and one who bristles has told you something useful.
Water and heating in Bath
Bath sits on limestone and Wessex Water says most of the water it supplies is hard, having picked up calcium and magnesium on its way through chalk and limestone. Published figures for the city are in the hard band, so limescale in a combi's heat exchanger and on cylinder coils is a live issue and a scale inhibitor on the cold main is normal practice.
Planning, flats and the edges of Bath
Almost the whole city lies inside the Bath city-wide conservation area, one of the first designated in England, and Bath is a World Heritage Site with more than 5,000 listed buildings, so a flue terminal on a street-facing elevation needs checking with Bath and North East Somerset Council and on a listed building needs listed building consent. Bath has very few tall blocks; shared walls and restricted flue positions in converted terraces are the usual constraint. Building control is provided by the same council, and villages in BA2 such as Wellow and Freshford include homes off the gas grid.
Areas of Bath this covers
Widcombe, Bathwick, Lansdown, Oldfield Park, Twerton, Weston, Larkhall, Combe Down, Odd Down and Bear Flat, and everywhere else in BA1, BA2. The districts are Bath itself; a job just outside them still reaches engineers who cover that postcode.
Also covering the area.
Bath questions.
My flat is in a Georgian terrace in Bathwick. Can I have a combi and where does the flue go?
Usually yes, but the flue route decides where the boiler sits. In a converted Georgian house the front faces the street and is almost always listed, so engineers route the flue to the rear or through the roof at the back, away from neighbours' windows. Any new hole through the wall of a listed building needs listed building consent from Bath and North East Somerset Council, and the freeholder's permission if the flat is leasehold.
Is Bath's water hard enough to damage a new boiler?
It is hard, and Wessex Water says so for most of its area because the water passes through limestone and chalk on the way to the tap. Left untreated it lays down scale inside a combi's plate heat exchanger and on a cylinder coil, cutting hot water flow. A scale inhibitor on the cold main, fitted at installation, protects the boiler and is a warranty condition with most manufacturers in water this hard.
What does a new boiler cost in Bath?
It depends far more on the job than the town. A straight combi-for-combi swap sits at the bottom of the range; a cylinder-to-combi conversion sits well above it, and only an engineer standing in your house can see which one you have. The cost calculator gives you a realistic range in under a minute, and comparing 3 quotes for your actual job gives you the real answer.
Which postcodes in Bath do you cover?
Bath is BA1, BA2, and we match on the outward code, so a job in BA1 only goes to engineers who have told us they cover BA1. Those districts are the town itself rather than a service boundary. If your postcode isn't listed, enter it anyway: we place jobs across the UK, not only in the towns we have a page for.
How quickly can someone come out in Bath?
Your job reaches engineers covering BA postcodes within about a minute of you submitting it. How soon one of them can actually fit a boiler depends on their diary and on the job, so we don't promise a date we don't control. If your boiler has failed completely, say so on the form and it is flagged as urgent.
Are your Bath engineers Gas Safe registered?
Yes. Every engineer on our network is on the Gas Safe Register and we check the number against the public register before any job is sent to them. It is illegal for anyone else to work on your gas boiler. Ask to see their ID card and check it yourself at gassaferegister.co.uk before work starts.
Do you own the property in Bath?
This is the one thing we have to know before anything else. A boiler replacement is a permanent change to the property, so it has to be authorised by whoever owns it - which means we can only arrange quotes for the homeowner, or for someone acting on the owner's behalf. Landlords are welcome to use the form for a property they let. If you answer no, we stop there rather than pass your details to an engineer who would not be able to take the job.
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