Case study · Chelmsford · Social media

A straight-talking voice for a Chelmsford heating company.

Assured Heating do careful, proper work in an industry people have learned to be wary of. We built them a content engine that sounds as straight as they are — and puts it in front of homeowners across Chelmsford and Essex.

370k+Views since December
142kPeople reached
+559New followers
41kTop TikTok

Assured Heating — a Chelmsford, Essex heating and HVAC company led by founder Lee Nichols, known for straightforward, no-pressure advice on boilers, heat pumps and underfloor heating.

Heating is a grudge purchase, and most people have a story about being talked into something they didn’t need. Assured Heating built their reputation on the opposite — straight answers, fair quotes, proper work. The problem was that none of that came across online, where they looked like every other heating firm. We set out to make their content sound exactly like they do in a customer’s kitchen: straight, calm and genuinely useful.

The challenge.

Heating and HVAC is a low-trust market. Homeowners are wary of pressure selling, inflated quotes and scare tactics — and a logo-and-stock-photo social presence does nothing to set a trustworthy firm apart from a pushy one.

Lee and the team are brilliant in person but had no system for turning that into content. They needed a steady stream of video that built trust, answered the questions customers actually ask, and reached local homeowners across the platforms they use.

  • A “meet the team” seriesEight short films introducing the engineers — Mitch, Amy, Steve and the rest — so a name and a face turn up before the van does. Familiar people are trusted people.
  • Myth-busting educationPlain-English videos on the things customers actually worry about: the £4,000 quote, the pressure sell, why boilers don’t last 30 years, repair-or-replace, and warranty tactics. Useful first, salesy never.
  • Clear service explainersStraightforward promos for heat-pump servicing, underfloor heating and the rest of the range — so homeowners understand what Assured can actually do for them.
  • A real engine, not one-off postsFilmed in monthly batches and posted three times a week across Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube, with follower ads putting the best of it in front of local homeowners.
What we delivered

A brand that sounds as straight as it works.

370k+
Views

Over 370,000 views across TikTok and Instagram since December — putting a straight-talking local heating firm in front of far more people than local advertising ever could.

+559
New followers

A growing local audience — 559 new followers and nearly 4,800 profile visits, homeowners actively checking Assured out rather than just scrolling past.

142k
People reached

Over 142,000 people reached, with a single TikTok hitting 41,000 views on its own — consistent short-form doing the job a sales pitch can’t.

The content

A few of the videos we make.

On location

On the shoot.

Filming an Assured Heating piece to camera on location in Essex The Sequence crew filming with a cinema camera and softbox lighting Assured Heating presenting to camera during the shoot Behind the scenes — camera setup on the Assured Heating shoot
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