Heating Engineer in Swimbridge, North Devon

Swimbridge is about 7 miles from South Molton, which makes it the nearest place I cover. That's worth saying plainly, because for a village this size the hard part is usually getting a Gas Safe engineer out at short notice, and here it isn't.

The village is best known for the Reverend John Russell, vicar here from the 1830s, whose terriers gave the Jack Russell its name. The pub still carries it. The housing is a village core of stone and rendered cottages with newer property round the edges, and a big rural parish behind it running up towards the moor.

That rural parish is the thing to check. A fair number of properties outside the village are off the mains gas network and run on oil or LPG. I work on mains gas only. If there's a tank in your garden, you'll need an OFTEC registered engineer for oil, or a Gas Safe engineer whose registration covers LPG. Better to establish that before a visit is booked.

I'm George Lane, Gas Safe registered, based in South Molton.

You'll get an answer. Ring or message during the working day and you'll hear back the same day; evenings and weekends, it'll be the next working day. And if it isn't a job for me, I'll tell you that and point you at someone who can help, rather than going quiet on you.

When you book, I'll confirm it and give you a two-hour window rather than a whole day sat at home waiting. On the morning you get a text with a tracking link, so you can see where I've got to instead of wondering. Traffic and the job before yours are real, so it's a window rather than a promise to the minute, but if it slips you'll hear it from me first.