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:
- Developing medium and long-term plans with homeowners for home heating and retrofit energy efficiency improvements such as extensions, or heat pump installations.
- Diagnostic assessment of existing heating systems - troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
- Supporting homeowners to make the switch to heat pump and low temp heating systems, inc. heat loss surveys, heating system design, and upgrading radiators and pipework.
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For professionals - consultancy services to architects, project managers, retrofit designers and coordinators looking to future-proof heating and plumbing.
- Installing & maintaining a range of heating systems and heat sources, including servicing, repairs, and power-flushing - cleaning debris from your heating system to ensure it runs efficiently.
- Designing & installing bespoke copper pipework for bathrooms and kitchens.
I’m here to help you work out the best way forward with independent assessment, advice and installation. Find out more about my services here
Installers are essential, they’re on the tools already and have so much knowledge about customers, pipes, homes, heating, yet they’re often the least listened to when we talk about decarbonising heat. 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 Sovay and Lysette Hacking talk about experiences 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 Tackling 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.