Why You Should Have An Annual Boiler Service
The annual boiler service is an extremely important job that's best done in the warmer months of the year, but did you know around 90% folks do not have the boiler serviced.
The boiler for reasons uknown seems to get forgotten until something happens, you go to have a shower and find you have no warm water. Then you begin to panic trying to find you to definitely repair the boiler.
So why is the annual boiler service important?
11 years ago the high efficiency-condensing boiler became compulsory in britain.
With the boilers before condensing it had been not as vital that you have them serviced since it is now. The reason is that the boilers then didn't have so many parts inside as they do in today's condensing boilers, yes they went wrong but were a lot easier and cheaper to correct, although it is definitely a recommendation by the boiler makers to really have the boiler and any gas appliance serviced annually.
It's more important now than ever before with an annual boiler service and the boiler checked over to make sure it is performing as should be, and most important that it is SAFE.
Having an annual boiler service one of the important checks is the flue pipe, this has to be checked to make certain all joints and seals aren't leaking carbon monoxide or products of combustion in to the room the boiler is located in.
The high efficiency or condensing boilers as they are known while running produce condense, that is an acidic water, since it is acidic, it can start to rot the flue-pipe, and should this happen the flue will start to leak products of combustion (carbon monoxide), which once we all know can be quite dangerous to life, that is probably the most important elements of the service.
All condensing boilers have a condense trap built-in, this must be cleaned out and checked for leakage it is also the main boilers flue system.
When the boiler is running the water it produces cleans the combustion chamber of any residue and this ends up in the trap.
With many boilers of today they work under ruthless and have an expansion vessel connected to the pipe work, this could be either internally or externally.
The expansion vessel will as time passes will lose pressure and can must be recharged to help keep the boiler attempting to it's full efficiently.
The expansion vessel is a very important part of the annual boiler service that should be checked. After Bathroom installation Colchester loses the charge it puts strain on the pump, the internal water parts and the entire O rings within the boiler.
Perhaps you have noticed when your boiler is running that the pressure gauge either fitted on the boiler or on external pipe starts to go up when the boiler cools down the pressure drops down to zero. You may have noticed that the discharge pipe or overflow pipe as some people call it, is showing signs of water discharge. For those who have then this is normally a sign that the expansion vessel has lost its charge.
Area of the annual boiler service is to check the boiler combustion rate.
This is to be sure the boiler is burning gas since it was designed for, this is carried out utilizing a flue gas analyser which is inserted into the flue-pipe and a reading is taken, if the readings are within the boilers recommendations then no more action is required, but if the readings are out of the recommendations then further investigations are essential to find the problem.
With the old type of boiler the burners were removed and the flue-ways were cleaned and checked, but with the condensing boiler the flue-gas reading tells us once the burners must be removed. In fact Vaillant boilers now say the burners may will never need to be removed if the boiler is set up and maintained properly, they once suggested that the burners be removed every five years.
With an annual boiler service these are just a few of the checks that require to be carried out, and because many boilers now include long warranties, to help keep the boiler warranty valid you must have an annual boiler service. Once the service has been completed, then the engineer must date and sign the warranty booklet to keep the warranty valid.
I have spoken to many customers with long boiler warranties, and for some reason they seem to think they do not need an annual boiler service because of the long warranty. This is simply not so, you must match the annual boiler service otherwise, should you need to generate a claim beneath the warranty you might find you will have a large repair bill, all as you failed to continue the annual boiler service.
One very last thing before we finish, don't forget that any type of gas work, be it fitting your brand-new cooker, the annual boiler service whatever it could be has to be carried out by way of a Gas Safe Registered person. If they're not gas safe registered then you could have no warranty on the boiler & most important you will discover your home insurance also becomes void should something happen.