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Wanstead

Wanstead grew from a small Essex parish into a fashionable London suburb through the 19th century, and the High Street still has Georgian terraces from that period alongside the Grade I listed St Mary the Virgin church, completed in 1790. Around it, the Wanstead Grove and Aldersbrook conservation areas protect streets of substantial Victorian and Edwardian villas built as Wanstead became a sought-after commuter suburb, while the streets further from the centre are mostly 1930s semis.

In the older villas, it's common to find a mix of original and updated pipework behind the walls, especially where a house has been extended or split into flats over the years, plus multiple bathrooms that put more demand on hot water than a single combi boiler is designed for. We often recommend a system boiler with a properly sized cylinder for these larger properties.

Wanstead Park and Wanstead Flats, both part of Epping Forest and managed by the City of London Corporation, border the area, and the larger gardens on many of the bigger plots nearby mean outside tap and drainage work comes up more here than on a typical terraced street. Hard water across this part of Essex and east London causes the usual limescale problems in boilers and showers too.