In the UK, the health and safety executive is responsible for regulating all gas safety and it is the same executive who over sees the gas safe register (the accreditation that any body whom works with gas must have).

The executive strenuously recommends that any gas appliance or gas boiler is serviced by a gas safe accredited and registered engineer at least once every 12 months. Much like a car MOT – it is absolutely necessary to ensure that all of your gas appliances are operating both safely and efficiently. So if you adhere to this legislation you should only require boiler servicing Bromsgrove once every 12 months.

Each gas appliance service will include the checking, testing, cleaning and fault finding to identify any irregularities with either your boiler or any other gas appliance. You may be unaware that your appliance isn’t working safely or effectively.

There are thousands of people (of all ages) in the UK that suffer from serious illness or even death due to gas related illness such as carbon monoxide poisoning. Our boiler service starts from only £80!

As discussed above – a boiler service will primarily involve cleaning, inspecting, fault finding and testing but depending on the brand of boiler you have will mean different specifications and procedures vary.

If you have a modern boiler the safety and effective operation of the boiler may primarily be concerned with an d determined by the analysis of the flue gasses. This means that if the “gas combustion analysis” reveals that everything is as expected and the boiler is working properly – then further dismantling of the boiler will not be required.

Other boilers may require other assessment for example: your boiler may require that the heat exchanger needs to be dismantled, then cleaned and then reassembled – having individual components tested as the engineer goes. This will give the engineer the ability to ascertain whether or not the boiler and its components are operating safely and correctly.

A gas engineer has to (by law) follow the specified service requirements that are laid out by the appliances manufacturer and requirements can differ greatly between appliances and manufacturers.

If the customer has lost the original instructions or your boiler is no longer in production – then the manufacturer may have ceased support and replacement instructions will not be available. Under these circumstances – your gas engineer (hopefully the helpful plumber :-)) will follow a specific, standard set of servicing instructions that will include: checking, cleaning and various testing procedures.

After following these standard procedures the helpful plumber will legally only supply the customer with a receipt for an ‘Annual Safety Check’ rather than an ‘Annual Service’.

The Helpful plumber is very experienced and our experience really aids our customers because we have assembled and put together a multitude of manufacturer service manuals meaning that the vast majority of our customers will have their boiler fully serviced opposed to checked.

Most customers do not realise just how highly durable a boiler is built to be. Due to the durability of your boiler – generally, if it is serviced once a year, it is unlikely to be problematic.

According to a ‘Which?’ survey conducted in 2008 (www.which.co.uk), the average costs incurred for an annual boiler service including costs for incidental repairs, were less than half of the breakdown contract charges over a three (3) years period. Hence, a breakdown contract is not cost effective.