A village on the A2
The A2 through Newington has been an air quality management area since 2009, for nitrogen dioxide, and it still is. Traffic is the main source, not boilers. But a boiler is the one source of NOx you control, and the old ones are the worst. Every gas boiler made for sale since September 2018 has had to meet a NOx limit of 56 mg/kWh. If yours is older than that, a new one is cleaner as well as cheaper to run.
A mix of houses
Newington doesn't have one kind of house. The 2021 Census counts about a third terraced, a third semi-detached and a quarter detached. So a combi often suits the terraces, a system boiler with a cylinder suits the bigger detached houses, and in an older semi with a cylinder and loft tank that still work well, keeping that setup can be the better answer. We'll tell you which makes sense, and why, before you're quoted.
Three conservation areas
Newington Church, Newington High Street and Newington Manor have all been conservation areas since 1992, and Swale lists the High Street one as at risk. The Grade I church of St Mary and the Grade II* manor house sit inside them. A flue on a wall or roof facing the road in any of the three needs planning permission, so we plan routes to the side or back.
Hard water
Southern Water supplies Newington from the chalk and the River Medway. Its checker gives about 101 mg/l of calcium, or roughly 253 mg/l as calcium carbonate. That's hard, though not as hard as Sittingbourne. It's still over the 200 mg/l point where a new combi should get a scale reducer.
New homes at Pond Farm
After a long planning fight, an appeal was allowed in August 2023 for up to 135 homes on the Pond Farm land south of London Road. When they're built, their boilers will need yearly services to keep the manufacturer warranties valid. We're under three miles away.