How often should your central heating system be serviced ?

How vital are central heating systems to our homes? They are especially important during the colder winter months. Ensuring that your heating is maintained correctly will ensure it works efficiently and keeps you warm. When carried out by a qualified engineer, getting your boiler serviced is an excellent way of ensuring it's working as intended and putting your mind at ease.

In this article, we at Abbey Boilers answers some of the questions frequently asked about central heating services by our customers:

1. What do we mean by a service of your central heating system ?

We recommended that your central heating system is serviced once a year to make sure it is working safely and efficiently. It primarily ensures that the boiler is working every time you need it..

A fully qualified gas engineer should perform the central heating service by thoroughly checking your boiler system. This includes ensuring that there are no carbon monoxide leaks that can pose a serious risk life, which is why we alway recommend a carbon monoxide alarm in your homes.

A central heating service can even help you save money on your bills by ensuring that the entire system is working as efficiently as possible to heat up your home. Ultimately, a central heating service can help detect smaller issues before they become bigger more expensive problems.

2. How much does it cost to service your central heating system?

As service for central heating can vary depending on where you live, however, the average cost in the UK for one is under £100. When you consider how much new boilers can cost to install if your central heating system breaks down, service can be essential, also most new boilers warranty is only valid with an annual service.

3. When to get your central heating system serviced by Abbey Boilers.

The last thing any one wants in the middle of a cold winter is for their boiler to break down. Unfortunately, if your central heating system is going to break down, you can’t control the time of the year, and most likely it will break when you are using it the most. Therefore it's always a good idea to get an annual central heating serviced to ensure that it is in best working order 12 months of the year.

It can help avoid any unwanted call-outs or issues during winter when you need it most and not wait for engineer to turn up to fix your system on the coldest day of the year.