Try getting hold of a decent plumber any time of the year.
Early this year our central heating went wrong.
I phoned many plumbers and only one turned up. He gave me lengthy quotes for this and that.
I never saw him again.
I tried various recommended plumbers, but they all too busy.
Eventually, I got what I thought was a very nice chap, but he ended up breaking the ballcock in the loft and just as my partner was in the bath, water gushed through the ceiling onto the electric light switch, thus shattering glass all over him. This happened twice. So called plumber couldn’t get the heating to circulate, radiators stone cold. In the end he said there’s nothing more I can do, you need a new boiler and rads.
He could have fixed it, but. Chose not to. Wanted to sell us a new boiler. There are a few charlatan tradespeople out there, you have to take pot luck.
We did eventually get a decent chap to get our old system working and of course, it incurred extra expense.
Just glad to have some heat after a couple of chilly weeks.
There is more, but I won’t bore you with it. Just so so disappointed with the work he had already bodged up.
New house and a sloping garden