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Theydon Bois

Theydon Bois grew up around its village green after the railway arrived in 1865, and the oldest houses close to the green, including the Manor Villas terrace built in the 1870s and larger houses like Theydon Towers from around 1880, are genuinely Victorian. The village has worked hard, through its Neighbourhood Plan and Rural Preservation Society, to keep its low-density, rural character next to Epping Forest, so infill and new building have stayed limited compared with more built-up parts of the district.

Because of that low-density character, a lot of Theydon Bois's housing is larger detached properties on generous plots rather than terraces, and multiple bathrooms are common. We often recommend a system boiler with its own cylinder, or an unvented cylinder, for these bigger houses so pressure holds up when more than one bathroom is in use.

Hard water across this part of Essex means limescale build-up in boilers, showers and taps here as much as anywhere else, and larger gardens mean we do more outside tap and drainage work than on a tighter suburban street.