Gas Boiler service guidelines
Gas Boiler service guidelines
A heating boiler goes down suddenly and a con artist conveniently enters to clean up your hard cash. A homeowner with a dead boiler is just what unscrupulous repair plumbers love-easy money for a lousy quick fix job. Even though your heating system is an integral part of your home, there is a fair chance that you know very little about how it works. To avoid being dodged by a fraud, it is essential to know the ABC of gas boiler servicing, and this guide has everything that you need to know about how your plumber tackles gas boiler repair and maintenance. The first thing a plumber should be is registered at CORGI; here they will get a lot of information about boiler maintenance, ask the engineer appropriate questions about their CORGI registration, and persuade him to think twice before making a fool out of you.
Check on each of these steps as the heating engineer gets down to the job.
- Has he analysed the exhaust from the flue pipe?.
- Has a pipework inspection been carried out? Ventilation should be normal and confirmed as so.
- Any parts not functioning properly should be replaced.
- All the parts of the heating boiler and their proper operation must be checked.
- Disassembly and cleaning of all key components.
For you to be fully satisfied that the job has been done properly, the engineer should do all the above enlisted things. The company you select to provide your heating boiler servicing should have a CORGI certificate to demonstrate their competence and skill levels. The CORGI logo will appear in their advert if they have bought space in the national Yellow Pages – firms with a bigger advert will generally have more money, more experience and a better reputation. Fly by night operators sometimes get away with a con job, but not for long. Old crooks go away and new cowboys enter the scene to hustle your gas boiler, so be alert and always use our checklist to monitor their work. For more information on boiler maintenance you can always check the information in this site which provides lots of facts about trusted heating engineers and other heating products.