Getting The Most Out Of Your Central Heating
To get the most out of your central heating then you will need to keep it well maintained.
In order to do this you should find a good heating engineer who is used to, or qualified to service your boiler.
Now as prevention is better than cure you would be well advised to select a suitable heating engineer before you actually need one.
Also ensure that you have your boiler serviced annually.
Often this will only cost you seventy to ninety pounds, yet it is money well spent, as an example if your boilers heat pump fails then it could cost you over two hundred and fifty pounds in parts alone, making even a ninety pound boiler service seem very cheap.
You can find a "Good" local heating engineer through your local Thompsons or Yellow Pages guide, although now you would also be well advised to go onto one of the recognized tradesman websites, whereby people review and rate each tradesperson.
Also keep your boilers instruction manual to hand, so that you are not having to hunt around in the dark for it in the event of a boiler failure.
This sounds so simple yet how many of us tuck the instruction manual away at the back of a cupboard.
Many boiler faults can be cured by simply resetting the boiler, yet how many of us know how to do this? Many boilers also have an automatic anti seize pump function, which means that the boiler pump automatically spins up after the boiler has not been used for a long time (Such as Summer months).
So check if your boiler does this, or certainly look for it as a feature when buying a new boiler.
Look after your boilers condensing pipe, as in Winter this is the most common boiler fault that occurs.
Your boiler will retain condensate water and let this out in a sudden burst.
However if the condensing pipe is at too shallow an angle, or it has a kink in it then in cold weather it can freeze.
If your boiler then tries to pump out the condensed water it will not be able to do so and will result in a total boiler shut down.
Yet this fault can easily be solved either by using a hair dryer to warm up the pipe or pouring hot water over it.
Ideally the pipe should point straight down and solve this common boiler problem.
In order to do this you should find a good heating engineer who is used to, or qualified to service your boiler.
Now as prevention is better than cure you would be well advised to select a suitable heating engineer before you actually need one.
Also ensure that you have your boiler serviced annually.
Often this will only cost you seventy to ninety pounds, yet it is money well spent, as an example if your boilers heat pump fails then it could cost you over two hundred and fifty pounds in parts alone, making even a ninety pound boiler service seem very cheap.
You can find a "Good" local heating engineer through your local Thompsons or Yellow Pages guide, although now you would also be well advised to go onto one of the recognized tradesman websites, whereby people review and rate each tradesperson.
Also keep your boilers instruction manual to hand, so that you are not having to hunt around in the dark for it in the event of a boiler failure.
This sounds so simple yet how many of us tuck the instruction manual away at the back of a cupboard.
Many boiler faults can be cured by simply resetting the boiler, yet how many of us know how to do this? Many boilers also have an automatic anti seize pump function, which means that the boiler pump automatically spins up after the boiler has not been used for a long time (Such as Summer months).
So check if your boiler does this, or certainly look for it as a feature when buying a new boiler.
Look after your boilers condensing pipe, as in Winter this is the most common boiler fault that occurs.
Your boiler will retain condensate water and let this out in a sudden burst.
However if the condensing pipe is at too shallow an angle, or it has a kink in it then in cold weather it can freeze.
If your boiler then tries to pump out the condensed water it will not be able to do so and will result in a total boiler shut down.
Yet this fault can easily be solved either by using a hair dryer to warm up the pipe or pouring hot water over it.
Ideally the pipe should point straight down and solve this common boiler problem.
