Eric James Woolfoot started his apprenticeship as a gas engineer in 1968 and this would be the start of a long and successful career in the heating industry. He had a passion for providing excellent service, priding himself on the quality of his work and the family values he ran his business by. Over the years, Eric built a good reputation for delivering professional heating services in the Yorkshire area. In 1996 he took on a young university student named James Wilkin. James was on a gap year at the time and worked on and off with Eric over the next 4 years before starting a full-time apprenticeship in 2000.
In March 2003, E J Woolfoot Limited was incorporated as a private limited company. Eric Woolfoot and James Wilkin were named as directors and the company went from strength to strength. Although James had originally started as an apprentice, he had worked tirelessly with Eric to learn the trade inside out. He benefited from the excellent training and teaching Eric gave him and they formed an exceptional professional relationship based on their shared values and company vision. After Eric’s retirement in 2014, James decided to continue to build on Eric’s legacy and took over the running of the company.
Although the company has evolved, it still retains the values it was founded on all those decades ago. Many engineers have learnt the trade through working with Woolfoot Heating and have since gone on to form their own companies. The Woolfoot team is still going strong with expert engineers and a network of reliable sub-contractors who all worked and trained at Woolfoot at some stage in their career. The Woolfoot team is dedicated to delivering excellence and, every day, we continue Eric’s mission to keep homes and businesses across Yorkshire warm.
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At Fast Forward Technology we have exacting standards and we only use companies with the same attention to detail. With this in mind we were referred to E J Woolfoot Ltd.
I would just like to say how pleased am with the service I have received from E J Woolfoot Ltd. We had an issue with the heating system in a property, this required some new equipment. The works where carried out on time on budget, once they had finished you could not tell they had been!
A big thank you to E J Woolfoot Ltd!
We will not hesitate to refer them to all our contacts.
- Managing Director. Fast Forward Technology Ltd
My boiler and I
I have got through a few boilers. have had huge disappointments with some of them; most of them actually. That moment when the shower goes cold whilst you’re covered in soap, it’s the coldest day of the year and the heating packs up…. the guarantee runs out the day before any of this happens.
So the last boiler selection was made after a great deal of consultation including with financial advisers!
James Wilkin of E J Woolfoot was recommended in an “I know his dad” kind of way and the IFA said Worcester Bosch were an excellent make.
Finally, I have a boiler that is big enough and bad enough to heat the house fast and deliver consistent hot water to the shower, even when am in it!
The best bit though is the maintenance service. The appointments are precise, a nice man turns up on time, arrangements and billing can be made via email (my favourite thing) and you can pay online. Yes, plumbers who answer emails!
I can thoroughly recommend James and his firm to anyone seeking a good relationship with a boiler. In fact I already have done.
During a rather cold spell in the first week in March we had a heating issue at the offices of Avery Walters. The entire second floor of our office had no heating. No matter how much we banged the radiators and turned up the thermostat all the radiators were stone cold.
A call to James of E.J Woolfoot Heating Engineering Specialists saw his arrival and heating to the sec ond floor reinstated within the hour
A Superfast, extremely efficient and reliable service and delivered in a friendly and helpful manner. We would not hesitate to recommend James to anyone who may have heating or boiler issues espe cially in cases of emergency.
Thank you.
Following your recent visit to my home in order to service my boiler and issue a Gas Safety Certificate I would like to make the following observations.
- Your fitter arrived on time and on the day scheduled.
- He was very polite and courteous towards my elderly Father who was house sitting.
- The work was done thoroughly and the attention to detail was superb.
- The work area was left spotless once the work was complete.
- My invoice arrived quickly and was equally quickly settled and was as per the price quoted.
I was very impressed and will have no hesitation in recommending EJ Woolfoot Limited to all my domestic and commercial contacts.
I would like thank Woolfoot Heating and yourself for an excellence service
You have managed to fit a full boiler system into a family member’s home which could have been very challenging as well as rushing out on a Saturday morning to fix a problem. You have also recently managed to help with the breaking down of my boiler and fitted boilers for members of UK Outdoor Fitness
You and your team have excelled in all areas:
- Excellent customer service from start finish Excellent and friendly staff
- Excellent Communication
- Work through challenging problems with patience understanding
- Rapid on time service
I can highly recommend Woolfoot Heating and will be publiciting this to all my friends, family and networks.