Gas Safe registered · 540834
Yaxley · PE7
We are based in Yaxley, not visiting it. Gas Safe registered boiler installation, servicing, repairs and bathrooms from a family firm whose van is already in your postcode.
Free quote, usually within 1 working day. Local firm, fixed prices, no callout sales pitch.
Since 2012
Serving Yaxley and the surrounding area
Gas Safe 540834
Registered for all gas work
76 reviews
Verified Checkatrade reviews
Free quotes
Usually within 1 working day
1-year guarantee
On our workmanship
Local coverage
Reaction Plumbing and Heating LTD works out of 3 Nightingale Drive, PE7 3HR — in Yaxley itself. Of all the places we cover, this is the one where a call turns into an attendance quickest, because there is no travelling involved. If you live on Broadway, Main Street, Landsdowne Road, the Middletons estate or anywhere off Windsor Road, you are minutes from the van.
Matthew McGonagle set the firm up in 2012 and it has stayed a small, four-person team since. In a village the size of Yaxley that is deliberate: in a village that size, reputation travels quickly, and the only way a small firm survives that is if the same faces keep turning up and the price quoted is the price charged.
Yaxley is a mix of older village-centre properties, substantial post-war and 1970s estate housing, and newer developments toward Yaxley's southern and eastern edges. We work across all of it — combi swaps in the estates, full system replacements in the older houses, and bathrooms in properties where the original 1970s suite is finally coming out.
Our registered base
3 Nightingale Drive, Yaxley, PE7 3HR. Every Yaxley job is genuinely local work, with no travel time built into the quote.
Fastest attendance of anywhere we cover
Free quotes are usually within one working day across our whole patch; in Yaxley itself we can often look at a job sooner simply because we are already here.
Village and estate property types
Older village-centre houses, large post-war and 1970s estates, and newer developments — each with its own typical heating layout and failure points.
Whole-job capability
Gas Safe 540834 for boilers and gas work, G3 for unvented cylinders, and in-house tiling so a Yaxley bathroom is one team, one price.
Postcodes covered: PE7
What we do here
Every service below is available in Yaxley, done by our own Gas Safe registered engineers. Prices are guide prices confirmed in a free quote before anything is booked.
Free quote · whole job in-house
Full bathroom fit-outs in Yaxley homes, including tiling. Common in the older estate properties where the original suite, layout and pipework all need replacing together.
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From £1,600 + VAT
Replacement and new gas boilers across Yaxley from £1,600 + VAT, fixed-priced up front. Warranties of up to 10 years depending on the boiler, confirmed before you commit.
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£80 + VAT
£80 + VAT annual servicing, easy to book in Yaxley because we are already in the village. Keeps the boiler safe, efficient and inside its warranty terms.
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Quoted on the job · 24/7 call-outs
Yaxley breakdowns diagnosed properly — pressure loss, lockouts, no hot water, error codes — with the price agreed before work starts. 24/7 emergency call-outs available.
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Quoted on the job
General Plumbing across Yaxley and the surrounding area, carried out by our own Gas Safe registered team at a price agreed before we start.
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Free quote · G3 qualified
New heating systems, radiator replacements and relocations, power flushing and G3 unvented cylinder work for Yaxley properties with cold rooms or aged pipework.
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Free quote · Gas Safe 540834
Underfloor Heating across Yaxley and the surrounding area, carried out by our own Gas Safe registered team at a price agreed before we start.
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Free quote
Water Tank & Cylinder Replacement across Yaxley and the surrounding area, carried out by our own Gas Safe registered team at a price agreed before we start.
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£60 + VAT
£60 + VAT CP12 certificates for Yaxley rentals, issued promptly. Handy for local landlords who need access arranged around tenants at short notice.
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Quoted on the job
Gas Checks & Capping Old Gas Supplies across Yaxley and the surrounding area, carried out by our own Gas Safe registered team at a price agreed before we start.
Read about Gas Checks & Capping Old Gas SuppliesWhy us
A local reputation is worth more here than any advert. We have worked in and around the same village since 2012, and our 76 Checkatrade reviews come from customers in PE postcodes.
Boiler servicing at £80 + VAT and CP12s at £60 + VAT are flat prices, and there is no mileage padding on a village job that is five minutes away.
The estates in Yaxley were built to repeating patterns. Having worked in dozens of them, we usually know the system layout before we lift the airing cupboard door.
Gas Safe 540834, G3 unvented, City & Guilds / NVQ qualified team, £5m public and £10m employers' liability, and a 1-year workmanship guarantee.
Local property issues
Village-centre houses, estate housing and newer builds each fail in their own way. These are the calls that come in most often from Yaxley addresses.
The water supply across PE7 is hard. In combi-heavy Yaxley estates that shows up as banging and kettling from the heat exchanger, gradually weaker hot water flow, and shower cartridges that stiffen and drip. Servicing catches it before the exchanger is beyond saving.
Plenty of Yaxley houses still run a boiler-plus-cylinder setup installed decades ago, with poor balancing and radiators that were never resized after extensions were added. The result is a hot lounge and a cold back bedroom.
Older steel and copper systems that were never flushed or inhibited carry black magnetite sludge, which blocks radiator bottoms, wrecks pumps and shortens the life of any new boiler bolted onto them. A power flush or system clean is not an upsell here, it is a warranty condition.
Yaxley has a lot of rear extensions and converted garages. Adding rooms without recalculating the heat requirement leaves the whole system working harder and never quite getting there, especially in cold snaps.
Our process
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Tell us the property, the postcode and what is wrong. Matthew or one of the team picks it up — you are not routed through a call centre.
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Quotes are free. Most are turned around within one working day, either over the phone for straightforward work or after a visit for boilers and bathrooms.
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You get the price before anyone starts. Larger jobs are fixed-priced, so the figure you agree is the figure you pay unless you ask us to change the scope.
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We agree a date and an arrival window that suits the property, whether that is a tenanted flat, an occupied family home or a place you are selling.
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Gas Safe registered engineers do the work, test it, talk you through it and clear up. It is backed by our 1-year workmanship guarantee.
In detail
Boiler replacement is our most common Yaxley job. In estate housing the usual decision is whether to stay with a conventional boiler and cylinder or convert to a combi — and the honest answer depends on how many bathrooms the property has, how many people use hot water at once, and what the incoming mains can actually deliver. We measure rather than assume, then quote a fixed price starting from £1,600 + VAT.
Servicing at £80 + VAT is worth booking annually in a hard-water area like this one. It preserves manufacturer warranty cover, which can run up to 10 years on a new installation, and it gives an early warning on scale, seals and flue integrity while those are still cheap to deal with.
Yaxley bathrooms tend to be full replacements rather than cosmetic refreshes — original suites, tired tiling and pipework that has been adapted several times. Because we handle the plumbing and the tiling ourselves, the whole room is one team's responsibility from strip-out to the final seal, and one fixed price.
On the heating side we replace and relocate radiators, install new systems, power flush sludged pipework and carry out G3 unvented cylinder work. Where a Yaxley property has been extended, we recalculate what the system actually needs instead of adding another radiator to an already stretched circuit.
There is a steady rental market across Yaxley and the wider PE7 area, and landlords here need certificates issued on time rather than eventually. CP12 landlord gas safety certificates are £60 + VAT, with the paperwork issued promptly after the check so a tenancy is never held up.
We can arrange access directly with tenants, combine a CP12 with an £80 + VAT service in the same visit to save a second appointment, and cap off redundant gas supplies where an old fire or cooker point has been left live.
Free, no-obligation quote
We are in the village already. Send the details and you will have a free quote, usually within one working day, and a fixed price before any work is booked.
07921 123669Gas Safe registered 540834 · £5m public liability · 1-year workmanship guarantee
Common questions
Yes. Reaction Plumbing and Heating LTD is registered at 3 Nightingale Drive, Yaxley, PE7 3HR. Yaxley is our home village, not an area we drive out to.
Faster than anywhere else we cover, because there is no journey involved. Free quotes are usually turned around within one working day, and for genuine emergencies we offer 24/7 call-outs.
Yes, 24/7 for genuine emergencies such as an uncontrolled leak or total heating failure. Call 07921 123669. If you can smell gas, contact the National Gas Emergency Service on 0800 111 999 first.
Yes — Gas Safe register number 540834. We are also G3 qualified for unvented hot water cylinders, the team is City & Guilds / NVQ qualified, and we carry £5m public liability and £10m employers' liability insurance.
Yes. We handle the strip-out, plumbing, tiling and finishing in-house, so a Yaxley bathroom is one team, one price and one point of contact.
Yes. As well as Yaxley we cover Peterborough, Hampton, Stilton, Whittlesey, Sawtry, Ramsey, Huntingdon and the wider Cambridgeshire area.
All of our workmanship carries a 1-year guarantee. New boilers additionally carry a manufacturer warranty of up to 10 years depending on the model installed, confirmed with you at quoting stage.
Nearby
We work across Peterborough and the surrounding Cambridgeshire towns from our base at 3 Nightingale Drive, PE7 3HR. If your postcode is not listed, call and ask — we will tell you straight away.
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Based in PE7 since 2012. Gas Safe 540834, fully insured, 1-year workmanship guarantee.
