About Marches & Midlands Plumbing

What this site is

We write about domestic plumbing and heating in the West Midlands and the Welsh Marches. Each article takes one subject — a type of house, a system, a common fault — and explains it properly, the way we'd want it explained to us.

What we cover

Two strands run through the site. One is local: how the housing stock around here behaves, from Wolverhampton's ageing terraces to Shrewsbury's flood-prone period streets. The other is practical, walking through the work itself:

• how a central heating system fits together in a typical British home
• what replacing a combi boiler actually involves, and what an annual service catches
• power flushing, balancing radiators, and underfloor heating in extensions and conversions
• unvented cylinders, new bathroom plumbing, and clearing blocked drains for good

How it's written

Plainly, and with a direct answer first. We're plumbers and heating people by trade, so the detail comes from doing the work, not from a search engine. Where there's a sensible way and a bodged way to do something, we'll say so.

Who it's for

About the area

Wolverhampton, in Shropshire, has plenty of history of its own. For background on the town itself, its Wikipedia page is a good place to start.