Plumber in Fullers Slade
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Fullers Slade is one of the Milton Keynes estates that has been through a council regeneration programme, and if you live here that changes the first question to ask when something goes wrong.
Not “who can fix this”, but “whose is it”.
Based in Two Mile Ash, around ten minutes away. Gas Safe registered, registration number 981362.
- Gas Safe registered 981362
- Around ten minutes from Two Mile Ash
- Ask what the programme covers before you spend anything
- Booked work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm
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Before you commission anything
- If you are a council tenant, repairs to the heating, hot water, sanitation and pipework are the landlord’s responsibility, and that cannot be contracted out of whatever else you are told. Report it through the council’s repairs route. Do not pay a private plumber for something that is theirs to fix.
- If you bought your home, through right to buy or later, the position is more mixed. What is inside your property is generally yours. Building fabric, communal elements and anything covered by an ongoing programme may not be. If work is being carried out to your block or your street, ask what it includes before assuming it excludes you.
- If a programme is running on your property, ask specifically whether heating, hot water or plumbing elements are within its scope. Programmes vary considerably. Some replace heating systems entirely, some deal only with fabric and external works.
We would rather tell you to go back to the council than take a job that was never yours to pay for
That is the same position we take on new build warranties and on apartment service charges. It costs us some enquiries and it is the right way round.
Where a private plumber does come in
- Anything outside a programme’s scope
- Owner-occupied properties in a mixed-tenure street where the programme does not apply to you
- Work you want done that goes beyond what is being provided
- Everything once a programme has finished
- Emergencies, where getting the water stopped matters more than establishing liability. Sort that out afterwards
Living through works
Two practical things, whoever is doing the work.
- Know where your stopcock is and check it turns. Where contractors are working on or near services, that matters more than usual. See our stopcock guide.
- Photograph pipework before it disappears. If walls or floors are open at any point, take pictures. Nobody regrets having them, and in a house that has been altered repeatedly over fifty years they are worth a great deal to whoever works on it next.
The housing in Fullers Slade
Early 1970s, on the north-western edge of the city near Stony Stratford and Wolverton. First-phase new town housing, which means third generation boilers, decades of accumulated magnetite in systems that have often never been cleaned, small bore pipework in places, and gravity hot water in many properties.
Where a cylinder and loft tank arrangement is still in place, converting to an unvented cylinder is normally the biggest single improvement available. See also power flushing for what decades of sludge does to a system.
Hard water
Same Anglian Water supply as the rest of Milton Keynes, around 300 mg/l of calcium carbonate against a UK average of 207. See our hard water guide.
Getting to Fullers Slade
Around ten minutes from Two Mile Ash. Close, so out of hours callouts here are practical.
Frequently asked questions
Work is being done to my block. Do I need a plumber?
Probably not for anything within that programme. Ask what its scope covers first, and report the problem through that route.
I bought my house here. What am I responsible for?
Generally what is inside your property. Building fabric and communal elements may sit elsewhere, and an ongoing programme may cover more than you expect. Worth asking before spending.
There is water coming in right now.
Deal with that first. Turn the stopcock off, stop the damage, and establish who pays afterwards.
My radiators are cold at the bottom.
Sludge rather than air, and bleeding will not fix it. We test the system water rather than assuming a flush is needed.
Do you cover Stony Stratford and Greenleys?
Yes, along with Galley Hill, Stacey Bushes, Hodge Lea and Wolverton.
What we do in Fullers Slade
Where we cover in Fullers Slade
- Fullers Slade
- Stony Stratford
- Galley Hill
- Greenleys
- Stacey Bushes
- Hodge Lea
- Wolverton
Get in touch
Call 07514 312117 or send a WhatsApp. Gas Safe registered 981362, CIPHE member, fully insured.