Gas Safe registered plumbing and heating contractors serving Horton Heath and the Meon Valley. Boiler installations, system design, underfloor heating and more.
Horton Heath is changing faster than anywhere else we cover. The original village now sits alongside One Horton Heath, a 2,500-home development being built out over the next decade.
The existing village is conventional. Post-war and later housing on mains gas, where the usual work is a boiler replacement, a system upgrade or new radiators and pipework. Nothing unusual, just work that needs doing properly.
One Horton Heath is a different proposition. Eastleigh Borough Council is both landowner and developer for the 310-acre site, which will deliver around 2,500 homes across nine residential phases along with a primary school, local centre and commercial units. The first phase at Lower Acre covers 381 homes.
The detail that matters for heating is that the development uses no fossil fuels at all. The homes are electric only, with heat pumps and solar, and no gas is being laid on. That removes the single most common job on a new estate, the combi boiler, and replaces it with something that needs more thought.
A heat pump system is not a boiler with a different badge. It runs at a much lower flow temperature, typically 35 to 45 degrees rather than 70, which means emitters have to be sized for that temperature from the outset. Underfloor heating suits it well. Undersized radiators do not. The system runs for longer periods at a steadier output rather than short bursts, and controls that were set up for a gas boiler will fight it.
That matters whether you are moving into a new home and want to understand what you have, or you are altering one later. Adding a room, moving a radiator or reworking a bathroom on a low temperature system is not the same job as it would be on a gas system, and getting the sizing wrong shows up as a cold room every winter.
Homes in the older part of the village are unaffected by any of this. Replacement gas boilers remain available for existing properties, and a straightforward swap is still a straightforward swap.
We cover Horton Heath along with Fair Oak, Bishopstoke, West End, Hedge End, Botley and Durley.
Supply, installation and replacement with up to 10-year warranty
Full heating system design, layout and conversion
Modern radiators with precision soldered pipework
Wet systems for new builds, extensions and renovations
Renewable heating for energy-efficient homes
Frost-safe fittings with neat concealed pipework
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We do new build first and second fix, heat pump systems and underfloor heating across Hampshire. Phases at One Horton Heath are built by main contractors appointed by the council, so work there goes through them. If you are building, developing or moving into the area, we are happy to talk.
Heating and hot water come from a heat pump and a cylinder rather than a gas boiler. It runs at a lower temperature for longer rather than in short bursts, so the house stays at a steadier temperature and the controls work differently. Hot water is stored rather than heated on demand, so the cylinder size matters more than it would with a combi.
No. The all-electric requirement applies to the new development, not to existing properties. Replacement gas boilers are still available and still a sensible option for a house that already has a gas supply and a system built around it.