Areas we cover across Northern Ireland

To confirm: confirm areas covered before launch; town pages depend on this

Where we work

We service boilers in and around these towns. Your price is the same in every one of them: gas £79, oil £89, heat pump £129.

Greater Belfast and the east

Belfast, Lisburn, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Holywood, Bangor and Newtownards.

Most of this area is on the Phoenix Natural Gas network, so gas boilers are the majority in the city and its suburbs. Oil is still common in older homes, on the edges of the towns and across the rural parts of North Down and the Ards peninsula.

County Antrim

Antrim, Ballymena and Larne.

Larne is on the Phoenix network and Antrim and Ballymena on firmus energy. Outside the town centres and across the Glens and mid-Antrim countryside, most homes heat with oil.

Armagh and Down

Portadown, Craigavon, Lurgan and Newry.

The Craigavon towns and Newry are on the firmus energy network. Rural homes across Armagh and South Down are mostly oil.

The north coast and north west

Coleraine and Derry/Londonderry.

Both are on the firmus energy network. Beyond the towns, oil is the main heating fuel.

Mid-Ulster

Dungannon.

Dungannon is on the SGN Natural Gas network, one of the newer networks in the west. Many homes in the surrounding area are still on oil.

To confirm: verify gas network for each listed town before launch

Gas, oil or both

Northern Ireland is unusual in the UK: a large share of homes heat with oil, and gas only reaches some areas. That is why Blueprint is both Gas Safe registered (To confirm: gasSafe) and OFTEC registered (To confirm: oftec). Whatever your house runs on, you book the same way and get the same standard of service.

Booking ahead in the busy months

Demand for boiler servicing in Northern Ireland roughly doubles or triples between summer and winter, as the heating comes on and problems show up. October to January is the busiest stretch. If your service is due in winter, booking a few weeks ahead gives you the most choice of dates. If you can, a spring or summer service is easier to book and means your boiler is ready before the cold arrives.

Oil areas

Away from the gas network, most homes heat with oil, and many have done for decades. Oil heating has its own makers, many of them Irish, such as Firebird, Grant and Warmflow, its own fuel delivery cycle and its own common faults. We service oil systems as a core part of the job, not an extra, with an OFTEC registered technician and an OFTEC CD/11 record on every visit.

Not on the list?

We add areas when we can serve them properly, with real engineers and real lead times, not just a page on a website. If your town is not listed, email [email protected] and ask. If we cannot get to you, we will say so.

How booking works

Enter your postcode on the booking form, choose your fuel, see the price and pick a slot. You get a confirmation by email with the date and time window. On the day, your engineer arrives in that window, services the boiler to the manufacturer’s checklist and sends you the record afterwards.