03 Mar
Air Conditioning
Biggar - ML12
Enquiry from: David D
Start Date: Immediate
Repair of domestic Mitsubishi air conditioning unit in sun room. Wall mounted unit leaks water when switched on.
Biggar
Biggar is a community and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is situated in the Southern Uplands, near the River Clyde, on the A702. The closest communities are Lanark as well as Peebles, and also because of this Biggar serves a vast backwoods. The population of the town at the 2011 census was 2294 although by the mid-2014 price quote it had expanded to 2320. The community was when offered by the Symington, Biggar and also Broughton Train, which ranged from the Caledonian Railway (now the West Coast Main Line) at Symington to join the Peebles Train at Peebles. The terminal and also signal box are still standing however housing has been built on the line running west from the station and the train running east from the station is a public footpath to Broughton, part of the Biggar Country Path network. The brand-new Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum run by the Biggar Museum Trust opened in 2015 as well as the Biggar Gasworks Museum is the only maintained gas works in Scotland. Additionally, Biggar has Scotland's only irreversible puppet theatre, Biggar Puppet Theatre, which is run by the Purves Puppets family members. Biggar was the birth place of Thomas Gladstones, the grandfather of William Ewart Gladstone. Hugh MacDiarmid invested his later years at Brownsbank, near the community. Ian Hamilton Finlay's house and garden at Little Sparta neighbors in the Pentland Hills. The fictional Midculter, which features in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles stories, is established right here. The community hosts an annual arts celebration, the Biggar Little Celebration. The community has typically held a huge bonfire at Hogmanay. In 2007 regional estate representative John Riley, encouraged a team of Biggar homeowners to launch the Carbon Neutral Biggar job, with the mentioned purpose of coming to be the first carbon neutral community in Scotland. The launch of the job, covered in both local as well as national media, happened at the town's yearly eco forum in May 2007. The team has developed links with the community of Ashton Hayes in Cheshire, which has a comparable team working toward carbon neutral status for the community. This community has 2 colleges, one main, as well as one second. The senior high school, Biggar Secondary school, likewise confesses pupils from bordering towns as well as towns. Biggar Primary is a little school, located on South Alley, with an existing roll of 238 pupils. Main students have lunch just offsite in the Biggar Main Sports Barn. The High School, located on John's Financing as well as adjacent to the main, shares its sporting activities facilities with the primary school when the event demands it. The annual primary Sports Day is held on the Senior high school playing area.
