Gullane is a quieter, golf-led village west of North Berwick — substantial detached homes along Sandy Loan and Hill Road, stone-built terraces on Main Street and a steady flow of higher-spec renovations driven by Edinburgh and overseas buyers. Mains gas covers the village core but thins toward Aberlady and the rural fringes. The work here skews toward properly designed installs rather than like-for-like swaps, with bathroom and heat-pump enquiries running well above our coverage average.
Full central heating systems across Gullane — first-time installations, system conversions (open-vent to sealed, gravity to fully-pumped), radiator and TRV upgrades, power-flushes, magnetic filter retrofits and zoning. We design the system around your property's actual heat-loss and hot-water demand, not a generic kW rule of thumb, so the result is a quiet, balanced system that warms every room evenly rather than one hot rad and three cold ones.
Full central heating upgrades in Gullane are about more than the boiler. We balance the radiators, fit TRVs on every room, add a magnetic filter, replace tired pipework where corrosion has set in and zone the system if the layout justifies it. EH31 homes with long pipe runs particularly benefit from rezoning and a proper power-flush at change-over.
Travel from our Kelso base: 1 hour 10 via the A1 and A198.
Local considerations in Gullane
High-spec bathroom refits with walk-in wet rooms and matched brassware are common — mains pressure testing on day one drives which shower bar will actually deliver.
Many of the larger Hill Road and Muirfield-side properties run system boilers feeding unvented cylinders — sizing is driven by simultaneous-bathroom demand, not by floor area alone.
Heat-pump retrofits in Gullane usually come with a renovation or extension, which lets us upsize emitters and zone the system properly rather than bolting a pump onto an undersized circuit.
Coastal salt-air exposure is less aggressive than North Berwick but still worth speccing for on flue terminations facing the Forth.
What we'll do for you
Room-by-room radiator sizing — no more cold bedrooms or scorching hallways.
TRVs on every radiator (except the bypass) for room-level temperature control.
Magnetic system filter fitted to protect the boiler from sludge and debris.
Power-flush included on system upgrades to remove existing corrosion.
Zoning (upstairs/downstairs or front/back) where the layout justifies it.
Smart heating controls (Vaillant vSMART, Nest, Hive) fitted and configured.
Recent Gullane central heating work
High-end walk-in wet room in a renovated golf-side villa, including mains-pressure testing and a matched thermostatic shower spec.
Vaillant ecoTEC plus system boiler and Megaflo unvented cylinder sized for a four-bathroom Hill Road family home.
Heat-pump retrofit packaged into a Main Street stone-terrace renovation, with radiator upsizing and underfloor heating on the new ground-floor extension.
Every Gullane central heating upgrade includes a benchmarked commissioning record, magnetic filter and a written balancing sheet for each radiator.
How central heating works in Gullane
Step 1
Heat-loss survey
Room-by-room calculation, current radiator audit and pipework condition check.
We cover every Gullane postcode for central heating. Pick your neighbourhood for locally-specific notes on housing stock, access and the kinds of jobs we actually do there.
Can you coordinate a full bathroom refit with our architect or interior designer?+
Yes — we work alongside architects and designers regularly on Gullane refurbs. We handle plumbing, gas, tiling and electrics in-house so the schedule stays in one pair of hands, and we sit in on the early specification meetings so the brassware spec actually matches the available mains pressure.
Are heat pumps really a fit for older Gullane stone properties?+
Often yes — but only when the radiators come up to size at the same time, which is why we like to do them as part of a renovation rather than as a standalone retrofit. We design from a proper room-by-room heat-loss survey and we'll tell you if the fabric needs work first.
What's the difference between a boiler swap and a central heating upgrade?+
A boiler swap is the boiler only. A central heating upgrade also addresses radiators, pipework, controls and balancing — useful when the existing system is sluggish, noisy or unevenly heated rather than just old.
Do I need a power-flush?+
If the system is more than ~10 years old or you're upgrading the boiler on an unflushed system, yes — manufacturer warranties typically require it. We test the system water and recommend honestly rather than blanket-selling flushes.
Can you zone my heating?+
Yes — most homes benefit from at least two zones (e.g. upstairs / downstairs or living / sleeping). We cost zoning alongside the boiler and controls so you see the full picture before committing.
Renovation-grade installs across EH31 — Vaillant Advanced Installer, MCS Certified, one accountable team.
Considered installs across EH31 — heat-pump retrofits on Hill Road, multi-bathroom system upgrades and renovation-quality wet rooms. Gullane sits at the high-specification end of our East Lothian coastal patch.
