PLUMBMAID
Heating & Retrofit
PlumbMaid is Sovay Berriman - an Independent Heating and Retrofit consultant and installer with over 10 years’ experience in the plumbing and heating industry.
Passionate about empowering clients to understand their homes and find realistic, sustainble ways to improve their energy efficiency, Sovay specialises in:
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Working with homeowners on near, or longer-term, plans for home heating and retrofit energy efficiency improvements. For example planning home refurbishments, extensions, or heat pump installations.
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Consultancy services to architects, project managers, retrofit designers and coordinators looking to future-proof heating and plumbing decisions in their planning.
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Supporting customers to transition to heat pump and low temp heating systems, inc. heat loss surveys, upgrading design of system, and replacing radiators and pipework.
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Installing & maintaining a range of heating systems, inc. Grant air source heat pump and natural gas boiler servicing and power-flushing.
- Designing & installing bespoke copper pipework for bathrooms and kitchens.
Heating Consultancy
‘Most of us want to make our homes better places to live. We want to maximise their warmth, minimise their impact on the environment, improve their heating efficiency, and reduce our bills.
Installing a heat pump, replacing a boiler, or upgrading radiators are all big and often expensive decisions. They can affect your everyday life while the work is happening, and they can shape how your home feels and functions for years afterwards.
I’m here to help you work out the best way forward with independent assesment, advice and guidance.
My approach is simple: I look at how you actually live in your home, and help you make thoughtful, practical choices that improve its energy efficiency in ways that really work for you.
I can also help you make sense of renewable-energy grants - whether a grant is right for you, for your home, and at this point in time.
Together, we work to future-proof your home and reduce its environmental impact.’ Sovay Berriman, PlumbMaid
Installers are essential, they’re on the tools already and have so much knowledge about customers, pipes, homes, heating, yet their often the least listened to when we talk about decarbonising heat.
Is this part of our ingrained classism? Lack of respect for dirtier work?
How best can installers be supported and encouraged to be leaders in the transition to renewables?
Listen in to Sovay on the BetaTalk podcast hosted by Nathan van Gambling, with fellow guests, Leah Robson of Your Energy Your Way, Dr Rhiannon de Wreede, and Dr Faye Wade
Listen to me and Lysette Hacking talk about our expreiences as part of the 2.4% of plumbers who are women on BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour.
We also discuss plumbing training, the impact of the ongoing #austerity programme, and that many people feel unsafe with the traditional trades offer. Let’s make access to mundane essential services more equitable
You can find more on women in the heating industry from the BBC here - ‘The Women Tackelling the Woeful diversity in the Heating Industry’ by Chris Baraniuk
Sovay joined a heating panel for a webinar with Energy Catapult Systems discussing diversity in the heating sector, with Leah Robson of Your Energy Your Way, Jo Alsop of The Heating Hub and Rob Hargreaves and Vivien Kizilcec of ECS.