Did your boiler service look like this
Did your boiler service look like this
Your gas boiler has just conked out, and there comes a complete rogue, the Gas Boiler Kid, all set to hit you with a hefty repair bill. A homeowner with a dead boiler is just what unscrupulous repair plumbers love-easy money for a lousy quick fix job. You use the boiler practically everyday for so many different purposes, yet you know nothing about it; this ignorance gives chance to the heating engineer to play the trick. More pertinently, how about your engineer? If you want to avoid the slick maneuverings of a con artist masquerading as an engineer, then you should heed our basic guide to central heating boiler servicing. The first thing a plumber should be is registered at CORGI; here they will get a lot of information about boiler maintenance, ask the heating engineer appropriate questions about their CORGI registration, and persuade him to think twice before making a fool out of you.
Use the following guide as a checklist when your heating engineer starts work.
- Has he checked the flue output of the gas boiler?.
- Has all the pipework been inspected? The gas boiler ventilation should be checked.
- Defective parts should be substituted with new ones, not second hand central heating boiler spares.
- All the parts of the heating boiler and their proper operation must be checked.
- The key component parts should be disassembled and then cleaned before reassembly.
These are the basic requirements that the engineers must fulfill before you can consider their work as satisfactory. The company you select to provide your heating boiler servicing should have a CORGI certificate to demonstrate their competence and skill levels. If they have an advert in the Yellow Pages, the CORGI logo will be displayed there – larger adverts generally indicate the depth of the company’s capital, experience and reputation. Fly by night operators sometimes get away with a con job, but not for long. However, there are always new rogues waiting to fill the old ones’ boots, so always be cautious before contracting a heating boiler service and maintenance engineer. Additional gas boiler maintenance related information can be obtained from this site along with discounts and rebates on heating products as well as servicing offers from trusted heating engineers.