Plant room servicing, warm air heater maintenance, statutory gas testing and purging, delivered by Commercial-Gas-Safe engineers, scheduled around your operating hours, fully documented.
What commercial heating, plant rooms & gas services actually involves.
Plain-English breakdown, so you know exactly what you're paying for, and why it matters before we set foot on site.
What it is
Commercial gas and heating services across Hertfordshire and Berkshire: plant room servicing, warm air heater installation and maintenance, commercial boiler installs (up to 1MW cascade), gas tightness testing, purging and recommissioning, landlord and statutory compliance.
Who it's for
Facilities managers, school estates teams, multi-site retail operators, restaurants and pubs, light industrial units, care homes, and commercial landlords needing a single Gas Safe contractor across the portfolio.
When you need it
Annual service schedules due, plant room equipment past its design life, repeated boiler lockouts, new tenancy fit-outs, statutory compliance audits, or when your incumbent contractor is no longer reliable on response times.
Why it matters
Commercial gas is a different qualification stack to domestic, COCN1, ICPN1, CIGA1, TPCP1A, and the consequences of an under-qualified engineer touching a 200kW cascade or a public-occupancy warm air heater are severe (HSE notices, lost insurance, closed premises). A properly ticketed contractor with documented RAMS is non-negotiable.
The cost of doing nothing
What goes wrong when this is ignored.
Commercial heating failures cost in operating hours, not just repair bills.
Risks of waiting
An uncertified commercial gas job invalidates your buildings insurance, full stop.
A plant room lockout during a winter cold snap can shut a school or care home in hours.
Failed statutory testing means a Gas Safe Improvement Notice, public record, and a clock on remediation.
Warm air heaters running outside combustion tolerance vent CO into occupied spaces, a criminal liability issue.
Common mistakes
Using a domestic Gas Safe engineer on a commercial appliance, the qualification (and the insurance) doesn't cover it.
Skipping the annual service to save budget, repair bills always exceed the saving by year two.
No documented RAMS on site, first thing a Health & Safety auditor or insurance loss adjuster asks for.
Booking the cheapest tender without checking ACS qualifications, most cheap commercial bids are domestic engineers stretching scope.
Our process
How the job actually runs.
Same system every time. No improvising on your floor.
01
Site survey & asset register
We visit, photograph, model-and-serial every appliance, log existing service history and build you a digital asset register.
02
Scope & scheduled quote
Fixed-fee annual service contract or one-off works quote, with RAMS, insurance certificates and ACS tickets attached.
03
Out-of-hours mobilisation
We schedule plant work around your operating hours, evenings, weekends, school holidays, at no premium for contracted clients.
04
Work & live documentation
All work logged on a tablet on site, photos uploaded, gas tightness and combustion analyser readings recorded, sign-off in writing.
05
Certificates & portal access
Certificates, service reports and asset history all available on a secure client portal, ready for insurance audits and FM inspections.
What you get
The outcomes that matter.
Single contractor, full portfolio
One number for every site, schools, branches, units. Consistent service standards across all.
Compliant by default
Every job comes with RAMS, ACS tickets, insurance and certificates. Audit-ready, always.
Scheduled around you
Work during shutdown periods, school holidays, weekends or out-of-hours, no operational disruption.
Same-engineer continuity
You get the same lead engineer on your sites repeatedly, they learn your plant and your processes.
Asset register digitised
Every appliance logged with model, serial, last service date and warranty status. Visible on your portal 24/7.
Statutory compliance handled
CP15/16/17 commercial gas safety records issued and renewed on schedule. Nothing falls through.
In depth
Everything worth knowing before you book.
The details a salesperson skips. Skim it, or read every word, both are useful.
Wall-hung commercial boilers (Hamworthy Stratton, Remeha Quinta Ace, Vaillant ecoTEC Pro), cascade systems up to 1MW, shell-and-tube hot water generators, plate heat exchangers, expansion vessels, pressurisation units, water treatment dosing, BMS interface checks, low-loss header inspection. Annual major service plus interim mid-year inspection on contracted clients.
Warm air heaters, Powrmatic, Reznor, Combat
Direct-fired and indirect-fired warm air heaters in warehouses, workshops, MOT bays, garden centres and industrial units. We service, repair and replace burners, fans, motors, flame failure devices and gas valves on all major brands. Annual statutory service includes combustion analysis, gas pressure check, flue integrity test and CO check in occupied zone.
Commercial gas testing and purging (CITPC1 / TPCP1A)
New installs, alterations and meter swaps all require statutory tightness testing and purging to IGE/UP/1 (above 35mm) or IGE/UP/1B (small-bore). We hold the current ACS qualifications, log every test electronically, and issue certificates with witness records.
Sectors we work in across Hertfordshire and Berkshire
Independent schools (term-time and holiday scheduling), retail multiples (after-hours mobilisation), pubs and restaurants (kitchen gas equipment, interlock systems, CIGA1), care homes and supported living (sensitive scheduling, no resident disruption), light industrial (warm air, process gas), commercial landlords with mixed-use portfolios.
Reactive call-out and breakdown cover
Contracted clients get a guaranteed response window (typically 4 hours in core hours, 8 hours out-of-hours) on plant breakdowns. We carry common cascade controls, gas valves and PCBs on the van so most fixes are first-visit.
General work gallery
Recent Heatrite jobs that show the standard of our work.
A broader look at recent installs, hot water systems, testing work and finished jobs across domestic and commercial sites.
Yes, full ACS COCN1 (commercial boilers), ICPN1 (commercial pipework), CIGA1 (catering gas), TPCP1A (testing and purging), and CMET1 (commercial metering). Tickets available on request.
Payment & finance
Card, Klarna or Clearpay, pay the way that suits you.
Boilers, bathrooms and larger installs can be spread over time with Klarna or Clearpay finance, just ask when you book.
Card payments on site
We carry a card machine in the van, tap, chip & PIN or contactless on completion.
Klarna
Spread the cost of your boiler or bathroom install with flexible Klarna finance options.
Clearpay
Pay over time with Clearpay, ideal for boilers, cylinders and full bathroom fits.
Ready when you are
Book your commercial heating, plant job today.
Written fixed quote. Gas Safe engineer. No upsell, no pressure.