Hawkins Plumbing Limited / Plumbers / Plumbing Contractors in Tawa

We had one of those old gas heaters that looked like a wood burners and heavy as! Rang some plumbers from the phone book and settled on Hawkins. Explained what I wanted and would I need to organise a roofer, but they said they could do it all.
So arranged a time (at my convenience too). They phoned me before hand to say they were on their way. Andrew S showed up with Andrew F the apprentice (that\'s… handy as I only needed to remember one name).

The pipe was disconnected and capped without me even knowing. Then they were in the house hacksawing (something I\'d tried but gave up on). Then the heavy dead weight was free to remove. I thoguht that would be up to me to get rid of but they offered to take it away. Suited me to have two young chaps carry the load rather than me struggle with it.

They couldn\'t fix the roof at that stage so just left the top part of the flue in place. Then I heard one of the Andrews on the roof measuring up for a matching piece of iron/Zincalume. The entire job probably took 20-35 mininutes then they were gone along with the unsightly heater. Weather permitting within the following weeks I got home one day and discovered that they had removed the top part of the flue and replaced a new sheet of roofing and I didn\'t even have to be there for it.

Update: The mark of a good tradesman I think is someone who stands by their work and Hawkins have done that as we\'ve had a few weather bombs since August. And while packing away some camping gear in the loft I happened to notice a little drip where the roofing sheets met. Luckily it was dripping in an old cat litter tray. Coincidentally a satisfaction/comment letter appeared in the mail from Hawkins. So I rang the number and mentioned that I was very happy with the job but some severe weather had managed to creep in.

Within a couple of days Andrew S rang me (good to have the same tradie for continuity and history of the job). Again we arranged a convenient time. He came, had look and did something on the roof. It\'s a tricky one having a leak as you have to really be there at the time while it\'s raining to see where the problem is. But he\'s left his number and told me to keep an eye on it for next time it rains. So if the problem persists I know I can just ring and he\'ll come and take a look."