Hambrook Heating and Cooling

Hambrook Heating and Cooling Boilers, air conditioning, air source heat pumps and all types of functional plumbing. Installation, service and repairs. Problem solving a speciality!

Fully insured, free written quotes, lots of happy customers.

Silliest places to be during a heatwave:1. In an airless windowless box with a biomass boiler big enough to heat a whole...
15/07/2026

Silliest places to be during a heatwave:

1. In an airless windowless box with a biomass boiler big enough to heat a whole block of flats
2. That's it. That's the silliest.

Heat exchanger cleaning!!On drum-type heat exchangers, I will always give them a clean at service time. Vaillant and Vie...
12/05/2026

Heat exchanger cleaning!!

On drum-type heat exchangers, I will always give them a clean at service time. Vaillant and Viessmann in particular are getting more picky about the services being done properly. Keep your warranty valid - get a proper boiler service.

The one in the picture is a Viessmann which was 10 years old and this is the first time it's been cleaned 🤦‍♂️ but with the right tools, they come up good as new.

Chuffin eck!!!!!This has been given a gas safety certificate for the last goodness-knows-how-many years...All the jets a...
06/05/2026

Chuffin eck!!!!!

This has been given a gas safety certificate for the last goodness-knows-how-many years...

All the jets are in the wrong burners. The big one hardly emits a flame. One of the medium ones goes like those beacons in Lord Of The Rings. And the smallest one is full of dirt so if you turn it down, the flame goes out 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Love a bit of hob cleaning 😋😋😋😋

Never a dull day...Pigeon fell down the chimney. Customer removed most of the fire but (correctly) called me when they r...
05/05/2026

Never a dull day...

Pigeon fell down the chimney. Customer removed most of the fire but (correctly) called me when they realised there was a live gas pipe that needed to be disconnected.

I christened the pigeon Anton (iykyk) and set him free. He seems fine.

The customer actually never uses the gas fire so that was decommissioned at the same time. And I found a leak on the hob pipework whilst doing my safety checks, so that got fixed too.

Not glamorous. Not shiny. Not clean. But important!I like solving problems. I'd much rather be making things work proper...
30/04/2026

Not glamorous. Not shiny. Not clean. But important!

I like solving problems. I'd much rather be making things work properly than (for example) doing tiling. Lovely tiling looks *much* nicer on social media, but it doesn't make me tick. (Which is why I have a very good tiler who I employ on bathroom projects.)

This job was done in conjunction with SWR Property Management Services - their block management department looks after this lovely 16-flat block in Clifton. They have recently taken over the block management, and discovered a "cavern" under the property with 16 stop taps, one for each property. But they were all leaking, seized, not working, or all of the above. To make things more difficult, they were all piped in 70s black alkathene pipe.

I coordinated with Bristol Water to have them on hand in case I broke the main shutoff for the block (I didn't, but it hadn't been used for at least 13 years, so better safe than sorry), then replaced all 16 with new Philmac versions. After that I went door-to-door and identified which stopcock shuts off which flat. So the block now has working emergency shutoffs for every individual flat. A good day's work!

Something a bit different today.
30/04/2026

Something a bit different today.

Occasionally I work for a facilities management company that looks after a nationwide chain of dentists. There is a stri...
25/04/2026

Occasionally I work for a facilities management company that looks after a nationwide chain of dentists. There is a strict response time for any issues to be addressed because the financial consequences of a whole surgery having to shut down for any length of time are massive.

In this case I got the initial call at 4pm on the Tuesday - the main boiler for the surgery had been shut off because it was unsafe. An emergency replacement was needed. I had the new boiler installed and commissioned within about 20 hours - in a town 75 miles away. Quite proud of myself for this one!

I was originally planning for this to be another "saving a boiler, no need to replace" post, but sadly, lazy servicing m...
25/04/2026

I was originally planning for this to be another "saving a boiler, no need to replace" post, but sadly, lazy servicing meant the previous boiler was terminal.

It had been "serviced" every year by a well known local company. I came to it to replace the plate heat exchanger, but on my way to taking that part out, I found that the system filter was absolutely full, the condense trap had never been cleaned, and the system had been run without any inhibitor chemical. The main heat exchanger in the boiler was blocked with sludge and it was kettling like mad (water boiling in the heat exchanger).

There was nothing for it but to replace the boiler, after giving the system a VERY thorough flush. Check out the colour of the water when it came out!

New Viessmann 050 installed with a 10 year warranty.

Address

Bristol
BS348QB

Telephone

+447795143122

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Hambrook Heating and Cooling posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Hambrook Heating and Cooling:

Shortcuts

Featured

Share

Category