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Start Your Kitchen Remodel With a New Kitchen Sink Where would you be without your kitchen sink? It’s a hard-working staple which even the dishwasher couldn’t nudge aside. For so long now, the kitchen sink has been seen as the workhorse, whilst we’ve been distracted by our – more glamorous – cookers. Perhaps it’s time

Simply Plumbing Guide to Installing a Heat Pump After a winter of high heating bills, many households are wondering ‘Should I install a heat pump?’. It’s quite a shift; for the past 50 years, gas central heating has been the unquestioned mode of heating for the majority of UK households. From 2025, though, gas reliant

8 Plumbing Checks That Could Save You a Fortune Finding your dream house is an exciting helter-skelter journey to a new life. Buying it can feel like trudging through sludge. So why is the Simply Plumbing team adding yet another check list to work through? Because knowing how to check plumbing when buying a house

How to Prepare Your Home for Winter After an unseasonably warm Autumn, the temperatures are starting to drop as the start of Winter approaches. In Bedfordshire we generally manage to avoid the extremes of the winter weather, but it only takes one icy night for unprotected pipes to freeze. Now’s the time to take precautions,

How to Deal With a Leaking Ceiling Water coming through the ceiling is a sight no-one wants to have to deal with. It’s scary – especially if you find you’re paddling through puddles on your floor – and it’s not easy to decide what to do, and how to manage the situation. Which is where

5 Types of Plumbing Emergencies Sometimes it’s difficult to know what is considered a plumbing emergency, as opposed to something that can be dealt with in the next couple of days. It may be tempting to persuade yourself that a problem can be dealt with ‘in normal hours’ but in some situations delaying your call