Sentaur Services is an independent British mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractor working nationwide from offices in Kings Langley and the City of London. For fifty-two years we've installed and maintained the systems that keep landmark British buildings running.
We run buildings - whether we built them or not. The same engineers, year on year. The same paper trail in your compliance file. The same direct line for clients on the book when something stops working at 2am.
Sentaur Services Limited was founded in 1974in Finchley, North London - a small mechanical and plumbing contractor with one brief: install and maintain MEP systems for buildings that couldn't afford to get them wrong. Fifty-two years on, we still do exactly that.
Through three decades of consolidation in our industry - most regional MEP firms rolled up into private-equity- backed nationals - we stayed independent. Headquartered in Kings Langley, with a London office at Fore Street, engineers working nationwide.
The work splits into two halves: facilities maintenance and PPM for buildings already on the book, and install and project works on new builds and refurbs. Browse selected case studies for a feel of where we work.
Sentaur Services starts as a small mechanical and plumbing contractor in North London. The brief: install and maintain MEP systems for buildings that can't afford to get them wrong.
The business grows beyond mechanical works - electrical, BMS controls, statutory compliance. Same engineers staying on the books for years, then decades.
While most regional MEP firms are rolled up by private-equity-backed nationals, Sentaur stays independent. Headquarters move to Kings Langley. The London office at Fore Street opens to support City and West End contracts.
Over 1,200 active sites across the UK, four thousand buildings touched in fifty-two years, still independent. The engineers who commission your plant are the ones who maintain it ten years later - because they're still here.
On every contract we run, the same engineers stay across years. The people who learn your plant aren't the people who leave. Whether we built the building or took it on from another contractor, continuity is what we sell.
Listed City estates, twenty-eight-floor luxury residentials, hotel back-of-house. We hold the keys because clients have trusted us with them - and across fifty-two years, we've never broken that trust.
Independent since 1974. No private equity. No quarterly cost-cutting. Decisions are made in Kings Langley, not in a boardroom 6,000 miles away.
Most of our clients have been with us for over a decade. Some for three decades. Whether we built the building or stepped into it, we stay - because the contracts that make sense are the ones that compound.
Premium MEP isn't loud. We design, install and maintain to a standard the building takes for granted. The best work goes unnoticed - and the only time anyone notices it is when something stops working.
Gas Safe, F-Gas, NICEIC, SafeContractor - current, audited, verifiable. Every PPM contract ships with a statutory compliance file that lands in your portal within working hours of every visit.