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Hartley & Sons Plumbing & heating · Reading

About us

A family firm, not a franchise.

Dave Hartley started the business in 2014 after years working for bigger outfits and getting tired of how they treated people. The idea was simple. Charge fairly, turn up when you say you will, and do work you'd be happy to have in your own home.

12 years on, it's still the same family. 4 engineers, the same vans you'll start to recognise around Reading, and a lot of customers we've looked after through three or four jobs now.

One of our engineers on site
01

We turn up

You get a time window and a text when we're on the way. If we're running late, you hear it from us first.

02

We quote before we work

You'll know the price before we start. If a job grows once we open it up, we stop and talk to you.

03

We leave it clean

Dust sheets down, boots off, mess taken with us. You shouldn't be able to tell we cleared up after ourselves, only that the job's done.

The people who'll actually turn up

You'll get to know them by name. That's rather the point of a firm this size.

Dave Hartley, Founder, gas engineer

Dave Hartley

Founder, gas engineer

Started the firm in 2014 after fifteen years on the tools.

Sam Hartley, Heating engineer

Sam Hartley

Heating engineer

Does most of the boiler installs and the trickier diagnostics.

Tom Reed, Plumber

Tom Reed

Plumber

Bathrooms and general plumbing, and the tidiest of the lot.

Alex Boyd, Apprentice plumber

Alex Boyd

Apprentice plumber

Third year, training under Dave. Knows where everything is on the van.

Registered, insured, accountable

Gas Safe registered
Registration 000000. Every gas job is logged and certificated.
CIPHE member
Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering.
£5m public liability
Fully insured for work in your home, certificate on request.
12-month guarantee
Our workmanship is guaranteed for a year. If something we did fails, we come back.

Got a job that needs doing?

Call us and speak to an engineer, or send a few details and we'll come back to you the same working day.