Temporary boiler hire for planned works
A plant replacement, a refurbishment or a shutdown does not have to mean a cold building. Booked in advance, the temporary unit goes in before your permanent plant comes offline, and the programme runs to its own timetable instead of the weather’s.
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0800 644 6240The cheapest temporary boiler is the one you booked in advance
Most people meet temporary boiler hire in an emergency. The more useful conversation happens months earlier, when a survey says the plant room has three years left in it and somebody starts planning the replacement.
Built into a programme from the start, temporary hire changes the shape of the job. The contractor can strip the old plant out in one clean phase instead of working around live boilers. The new system gets flushed, balanced and commissioned properly rather than rushed back online. The client never has to choose between a faster install and a warm building.
And the cost is a known line in the budget rather than a panic purchase halfway through the works, which is always the more expensive version.
The work temporary hire is planned around
Every one of these is a job where the building has to keep running while something substantial happens to its heating.
Plant room replacement
The big one. New boilers, pumps, pipework and controls, with the building held on temporary heat for the whole programme.
Scheduled maintenance
Servicing that needs the plant offline for longer than a day, without the building going cold while it happens.
Refurbishment and fit-out
Where the heating is being reconfigured around a new layout and the existing system comes out before the new one goes in.
Holiday and shutdown works
Schools, colleges and factories with a fixed window. The temporary unit removes the risk of the programme overrunning into term or production.
Decarbonisation programmes
Moving a building off gas and onto heat pumps is a long job. Temporary hire is what makes it possible without closing the building.
Seasonal contingency
Ageing plant that got through last winter. A unit booked and standing by is cheaper than an emergency in January.
Planned hire, start to finish
Longer hires are priced more favourably, so tell us the likely duration when you enquire even if it is only an estimate. It is easier to shorten a booking than to extend one in January.
Booked in, installed, collected
Tell us the programme
What is coming offline, what the building is, and the dates. If the dates are not fixed yet, tell us that too.
We size and survey
Against your existing plant and the building’s real heat load. Larger jobs get a site visit before they get a price.
We install ahead of the works
The temporary unit goes in and is proven while your permanent plant is still running, so there is no gap at all.
We collect when you are back
Once the new system is commissioned and proven, we disconnect, drain and collect. Nothing lingers on your site.
What booking early actually buys you
A programme that does not slip
The contractor strips out in one phase rather than working around live plant. That is usually days off the job, not hours.
A properly commissioned system
Time to flush, balance and test the new plant rather than rushing it back online because the building is cold.
A known cost
A budgeted line rather than a panic purchase halfway through the works, which is always the more expensive version.
The right unit, not the available one
Book in December for a February job and you get the unit that suits the building. Ring on the day and you get what is in the yard.
Frequently asked questions about temporary boiler hire
If yours is not answered here, ring and ask. You will get a straight answer rather than a callback form.
As early as you can. For a plant room replacement, bringing us in at the design stage means the temporary connection is designed into the job rather than improvised on site. A few days notice is workable, but autumn and winter are busy and the choice of unit narrows.
No. For planned work the temporary unit is installed, connected and proven while your permanent plant is still running. Only then is the old plant taken offline. There is no gap.
From a single weekend through to programmes running several months while a plant room is rebuilt. Longer hires are priced more favourably, so give us the likely duration up front even if it is only an estimate.
Either, and often both. We are used to working alongside a main contractor and an M&E subcontractor, and we issue method statements and risk assessments before work starts so your site team can review them in advance.
Yes. Our sister company Mellor & Mottram designs and installs commercial heating systems, so a temporary hire can turn into a permanent replacement without changing supplier.
It happens, and it is not a problem. Hire runs by the week, and extending is a phone call. It is far easier to extend a booking than to arrange an emergency one because the works slipped.
Need temporary or emergency boiler hire?
Tell us the site, what has failed and roughly what capacity you think you need. For a genuine emergency, ring rather than fill this in.