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Boilers are your property’s backbone, supplying hot water for several utilities. These include your bathrooms, kitchen, and your central heating system. Modern boilers such as Vaillant have numerous accessories and controls that ensure high efficiency and allow you to monitor them regularly. Despite this comfort, your boilers could run inefficiently, leading to heat loss, deterioration of parts, and high energy bills. Regular maintenance and a few valuable tips can prevent these issues and give your boilers a long life. One of the easiest and most effective ways to ensure that your boilers stay in the best condition is annual servicing.
Almost every boiler manufacturer recommends that customers get their boilers serviced at least once a year. Annual servicing can ensure that your boilers run as well as they did when they came out fresh from the factory. A gas-safe registered engineer and, ideally, a Vaillant certified engineer should inspect your gas boilers and carry out servicing. The engineer should run a full check of all boiler functions and carry out a detailed inspection. This is imperative for ensuring that your boiler provides you with the utility it is designed for during cold winter nights. Boiler servicing is also important and a legal obligation if you are a landlord. The “landlord and tenant act-1985” makes it obligatory for a landlord to ensure the safety of all tenants. For this, you are required to submit a gas safety certificate every year. Only a gas-safe registered engineer must carry out the inspection.
Remember that if your boiler is still under warranty, you should get it serviced in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidelines; otherwise, your warranty can become invalid. This can even make your home insurance invalid, as your boiler’s service history can also be considered when making any claim. You should also remember that a valid warranty does not imply that your boilers do not need servicing. You should get them serviced even if it has operated for just one year.
Regular servicing can prevent many boiler problems and can also identify other boiler problems before they get worse. Cleaning can remove grime and scaling from your boilers and pipes. As boilers are expensive equipment, identifying future problems can help you avoid large repair expenses. Periodic maintenance and record keeping can help you claim any warranties in the future.
Professional boiler servicing will last from 30 to 60 minutes if there are no other issues. The engineer should, however, take his time and conduct a thorough inspection. Certificates and paperwork would follow this, and everything should be over within an hour.
Whilst you have to be a gas-safe engineer for handling gas appliances such as boilers, you can take some safe and easy steps to ensure that your gas boiler runs smoothly.
Bleeding the radiators will not only keep your home warm but also improve the efficiency of your heating network. Bleeding them twice a year is a good way to keep your system running smoothly. Central heating systems get filled with trapped air over time. These pockets travel around the heating system and can get into your radiators. This results in cold spots and, therefore, inefficiency. Bleeding the radiators will expel this trapped air from your system and ensure uniform heating.
If your property has a system or a combi boiler, monitoring the boiler pressure can help you in the early identification of many potential issues. As there is a highly visible pressure gauge in both System and Combi boilers, you can check if the pressure is around 1 bar. If it is lower than that, you can increase it yourself.
If the warranty on your Vaillant boiler is over, you can still benefit from the company’s support plans. You can either avail yourself of the “Repair & care” or the ” fixed price repair” plan. The “repair & Care” plan is most suitable for broken-down boilers. It provides you with a one-off repair followed by regular maintenance. The fixed price plan is a one-off package for broken-down boilers with no warranty.
You will find several conflicting answers to this question. Some will advise you to let your heating run continuously at low temperatures, while others will recommend you to use it only when you feel the need. You should remember that although you can minimize heat loss by taking several steps but your home will still lose some of the heat one way or the other. Both ideas, therefore, may be as good as each other. Leaving your heating system on throughout will lead to inefficiency and even higher energy costs while it will keep your home warm. Switching it on when needed may take time to heat your home, but it will save you energy costs.
We highly recommend the latter. This method will also reduce the wear and tear of your heating system.
Even if you have the most efficient Vaillant boiler installed on your property, if there is unnecessary heat loss, your boiler will not run efficiently and incur high energy costs. You need to take all the necessary steps that minimize heat loss. For instance, properly insulated lofts will prevent heat loss through your ceiling and walls. Loft insulation, double-glazed windows, and cavity walls help you lower your energy cost. Pertinent to mention that you can get grants for taking up such energy-saving initiatives.
A reduction in your indoor temperature, even if it is as small as one degree, will translate into considerable savings. You can follow several tips and tricks to cut down your energy costs, reduce heating time, and stay warm during the winter.
You can get radiator reflectors from almost every other hardware shop. They are designed to reflect heat back to your rooms, thus reducing heat loss.
Heat can escape from several places in your home, and windows are at the top of this list. Using glazed windows (double or triple) can minimize heat loss, and using the right curtains can prevent it further.
You may not want to do this, but wearing the right clothing can reduce your reliance on your heating system and thereby reduce your energy cost.
Many rooms, such as hallways and landings, may not require heating. If you leave your internal doors open, heat loss will increase because the warmth will spread throughout your property. Keeping your room doors closed while using your heating system will result in quick heating and minimize heat loss. If you have an open space living area and find it hard to heat it, consider using partition walls to increase the efficiency of your heating system.
Here at Tycoon Property Maintenance Ltd, all of our engineers are Gas Safe registered and qualified to cover all aspects of gas, plumbing and heating services, including boiler servicing and repairs, gas installations, gas leaks and repairs, gas safety inspections, dripping taps, burst pipes and power flushing.
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