Reading’s reliable plumbers and heating engineers.
Boiler installs, breakdown repairs, full bathrooms and 24-hour emergency callout across Berkshire. Fixed-price quotes, no call-out charge in working hours, the same engineer from quote to handover.
Registered
Gas Safe
£5m cover
Public liability
2011
Trading since
87 reviews
5★ on Google
What we do
The four jobs we’re known for
Most of what we do, we do every week. That’s why the prices are fixed, the warranties are long, and the engineer you ring is the engineer who turns up.
Boiler installation
A-rated combi, system and regular boilers fitted properly. Free survey, fixed-price quote, finance available, every install backed by up to 12 years parts and labour warranty.
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Boiler repair and servicing
Annual services, breakdown repairs and gas safety checks, by Gas-Safe engineers who do this every day. Same-week appointments. Most repairs done on the first visit.
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Bathroom installation
Full bathroom and shower-room refits: design, supply, strip-out, plumbing, tiling, the lot. One team, one price, one phone number for the whole job.
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Emergency callout
No heating in January. Burst pipe at 2am. Gas leak. We've got two engineers on rotating call, 24 hours a day, every day, anywhere in Reading.
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About Northgate
A small Reading firm, doing the work properly.
Tom Northgate set the firm up in 2011 after a decade with one of the bigger Reading installers. Today there are four of us. We answer our own phones, we drive our own vans, and we leave the houses we work in tidier than we found them.
- Same engineer leads your job from survey to sign-off.
- Fixed-price written quotes within 48 hours of survey.
- Up to 12 years parts and labour warranty on new boilers.
- Two engineers on rotating call for 24-hour emergencies.
What customers say
Five stars on Google, repeat business in person.
Ninety-three percent of our work last year came from repeat clients or word-of-mouth in their street. Here’s a small slice of why.
“Quoted on Tuesday, fitted on Friday. Tom and Asif put dust sheets down everywhere, took the old boiler away, and walked me through the new controls properly. Price was exactly what they said it would be.”
“No hot water on a Sunday morning with a baby in the house. They had someone out within the hour, fixed the diverter valve on the spot. Lifesavers.”
“Stripped, fitted and finished in nine working days. The 3D visual at the start was the best bit; we changed the tile layout twice before they ordered anything. Lovely team to have in the house.”
Where we work
Reading and the rest of Berkshire.
Most of our work is inside Reading itself, but we cover most of the RG postcodes. Engineers reach Caversham, Earley and Tilehurst within 15 minutes; further out we book by appointment.
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Northgate Plumbing & Heating
Boiler trouble, or planning a new bathroom?
One phone number gets you through to an engineer, not a call centre. We'll tell you on the phone whether it's a quick fix or a quote job.