Roscommon homes need a heating contractor who knows how houses here are built and heated, and that is the work we do every week from our base in Tarmonbarry, on the Roscommon side of the Shannon. We design, install and replace heating systems for homes, farms and businesses across the county. Most of the calls we get are about heating that isn’t working well, or about planning a new system the right way from the start. Because we’re local, Roscommon town, Strokestown, Lanesborough and Ballyleague, and Longford town across the river are all close to home for us. We know the roads, the weather and the kind of houses we’ll find when we arrive. A lot of rural Roscommon isn’t on the natural gas network, so oil is still the main heating fuel in many homes. Much of the county is made up of one-off bungalows and older farmhouses, and plenty of them still run an oil boiler that has been going for fifteen or twenty years. When a boiler like that starts to cut out or burn too much oil, a boiler replacement is often the most sensible fix. Before we fit anything new, we look at the whole system: the pipes, the radiators, the controls and the cylinder. A new boiler on a tired system won’t give you the comfort you’re paying for. Parts of the county sit on limestone, and harder water can leave scale in boilers and cylinders over time (?), so we think about protecting the new system as well as fitting it. There is steady building going on around Roscommon, from new homes on family land to full renovations of older houses. New homes in Ireland have to get part of their energy from a renewable source, and an air-to-water heat pump is the usual way to meet that rule. Older houses can take a heat pump too, but only once the insulation and draught-proofing are good enough to hold the heat. That’s why we look at the house first and the heat pump second. A heat pump works best with underfloor heating, because the floor gives out gentle, even heat at a lower water temperature. On a new build, we plan the pipe layout with you before the floor goes down, so the heat pump, the floors and the controls are designed as one system instead of three separate jobs. The weather here shapes the work as well. Winters in the west midlands are long, damp and mild for weeks, then turn sharply cold for a few days. Pipework and condensate pipes on outside walls need proper protection so they don’t freeze in a cold snap, and a heat pump has to be sized for the coldest days, not the average ones. Land along the Shannon and around Lough Ree can flood in a wet winter, so on low-lying sites we think carefully about where outdoor units, tanks and pipework go. Farms are a big part of life in the county, and a farmhouse often shares its water and heating needs with the yard and sheds, which changes how we plan the job. We also travel to the towns around Roscommon. The west side of Athlone sits in County Roscommon, and the bigger towns on the gas network, like Athlone, have far more gas boilers than the countryside does. Carrick-on-Shannon, Longford and Mullingar are all within easy reach, and we take on larger jobs further afield, back towards Dublin. Wherever the house is, the questions are the same: what heat source suits it, how well it holds heat, and how much hot water the household really uses. We’ve been plumbing for 27 years and running our own business for 23 of them. Our team of five to ten is RGI registered for gas work and fully insured. We’ve worked on large projects too, including new lodges at Center Parcs Longford Forest and 188 apartments in Drimnagh, Dublin (?), and every home in Roscommon gets that same standard of planning and care. We work Monday to Friday, 7am to 6pm. We turn up when we say we will, give you a clear, fair price before any work starts, and get the job right first time.