Boiler Servicing in Guildford and the Surrounding Areas | When is the Best Time to Get Your Boiler Serviced?

Without regular maintenance checks and necessary repair work, your boiler will struggle to keep functioning efficiently all year round. While this may initially only lead to delayed hot water and insufficient heating, it could eventually cause a boiler breakdown. This will leave you and your family without heating and hot water at a moment’s notice. By servicing your boiler at least once every 12 months, you reduce the risk of breakdowns and costly repairs.

 

Hiring a Gas Safe registered technician from CSR Gas & Plumbing Services to carry out boiler servicing, means that the model at your home in Guildford or the surrounding areas will comfortably keep ticking over, until the next annual check-up.

While this is not a legal requirement for homeowners, the Landlord and Tenant Act (1985) makes it unlawful for landlords to not regularly service the boilers of their tenancies.

 

When it comes to taking care of a boiler, most customers in and around the Guildford area only come to us after detecting a problem. The beauty of regular servicing is that we can iron out any niggling issues before they start to affect your boiler’s performance. This cancels out the need for repairs and replacements.

 

When to Book in for Boiler Servicing

 

There’s never a good time to suffer a boiler breakdown, however, we can all agree that being without heating and hot water during the cold winter months is best avoided. Unfortunately, over 45% of homeowners throughout the UK have suffered a boiler breakdown during the winter. This is often due to a sort of boiler hangover from the previous winter.

 

You see, most property owners in Guildford and the surrounding areas use their boiler every day during the winter months, with some leaving it on all day until bedtime. Such intense and constant usage can cause your model to suffer from wear and tear, which may result in niggling issues or sluggish components.

 

With the coming of the spring and then the warmer summer months, the majority of us barely even use our boiler at all, unless we don’t have an immersion heater or similar system to deliver hot water. During this time, the effects of wear and tear are not immediately obvious. However, without regular boiler servicing to detect these issues and fix them before they develop into something more serious, as we gradually start to use the boiler more and more throughout the autumn, these faults can exacerbate. Come winter, it’s inevitable that boiler breakdowns occur due to a second winter of constant use.

 

At CSR Gas & Plumbing Services, we recommend having the boiler of your Guildford property serviced between July and September.

If, for example, we detect a problem with your system and have to order a specific replacement part, you may have to wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive. While the weather is still relatively warm, the chances are you won’t miss being unable to use your boiler during this time.

 

Likewise, booking in for an autumn servicing, when you are just starting to use your boiler again, can make it easier to detect potential problems before they cause any permanent damage.

 

Having a Gas Safe registered professional like us look at your boiler every autumn drastically reduces the chances of a breakdown during the winter.