Boiler Repair in Greenock

Greenock is an old Clyde port built up a hill, and both halves of that description show up in the work. The waterfront and the streets behind it carry substantial Victorian tenement stock from the town's shipbuilding and sugar-refining years. Above and behind them the ground climbs steeply into later terraced streets and post-war estates, and the newer housing sits higher and more exposed again.

The relevant point for boilers is a matter of dates. Those tenements were built for open fires and later fitted with heating, and the buildings themselves have no provision at all for what a modern condensing boiler needs, which is a permanent drain for the water it produces as it runs. In a house with a kitchen waste a metre away that is a non-issue. In a tenement flat where the boiler ended up in a hall cupboard or on a gable wall, the condensate has usually been taken out through the wall and down the outside, because that was the only route available at the time.

In this climate that route works until the first hard frost, and then it does not. Muhammad covers the Inverclyde round and this is the single most common thing he finds on a Greenock boiler that keeps stopping and restarting through the winter. It is worth checking before anyone starts replacing parts, because it costs nothing to look at and it explains a lot of repeat visits.