About

A family firm from Blackboys that grew into renewables without letting go of the boilers

Paynes Heating & Plumbing is a family-run heating, plumbing and renewable energy contractor based at Oak Tree Barn in Blackboys, near Uckfield, serving East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent since 1990. The company is Gas Safe, OFTEC, MCS, NICEIC, RECC, APHC and TrustMark registered, is an established tepeo ZEB installer, and runs a 24-hour emergency call-out.

The Paynes fleet parked outside the timber-clad Oak Tree Barn office

Talk to an engineer, not a call centre

Call 01825 891720 between 8am and 5:30pm, Monday to Friday, and you will speak to someone who can book the job. Outside those hours the same number reaches our emergency engineer.

Call 01825 891720 Request a quote
  • Gas Safe Register registered
  • OFTEC registered
  • MCS registered
  • NICEIC registered
  • RECC registered
  • APHC registered
  • TrustMark registered

What we are

A contractor, not a lead-generation site. The engineers are ours, the vans are ours, the yard is ours. When something needs doing at your property, the person who turns up works for Paynes and answers to Paynes.

Over 50,000 customers
Homes, businesses and public buildings across three counties since 1990.
Around 50 vehicles
Enough to run planned work and an emergency rota at the same time. A quarter of the fleet is going electric.
Seven registrations
Gas Safe, OFTEC, MCS, NICEIC, RECC, APHC and TrustMark. Each one covers a specific kind of work and each one is inspected.
Domestic, commercial, industrial
From a combi in a terrace to maintenance programmes and commercial energy storage.
Local
Long-standing residents, family friends and local businesses, and community work such as Isfield Village Hall.
Registered company
PAYNES HEATING AND PLUMBING SERVICES LIMITED, company number 02489842, Oak Tree Barn, Lewes Road, Blackboys, Uckfield, TN22 5JL.

How the company grew

  1. 1990Paynes Heating & Plumbing founded as a family gas and heating business in East Sussex.
  2. SinceOil boilers, plumbing and bathrooms added for the villages off the gas grid; OFTEC and APHC registrations.
  3. ThenElectrical work brought in-house under NICEIC so heating, solar and battery jobs are wired by our own people.
  4. NowMCS and RECC for solar, batteries and heat pumps; established tepeo ZEB installer; the first electric vans on the fleet.
Three Paynes diesel vans parked in a row on gravel with fields behind A Paynes Renewables electric van outside the Oak Tree Barn office Paynes vans lined up outside a building, seen from above