Why summer is a perfect time to service your boiler
While your heating is likely the last thing on your mind as you enjoy the summer sunshine, giving your boiler a bit of attention now could make a difference later on in the year.
A boiler service is vital for keeping it in top working condition throughout the year. In summer, depending on the type of system you have, you’ll need your boiler to provide hot water for everyday use.
In this article, we’ll look closer at:
Why a boiler service is needed
Servicing a boiler in summer
Other summer maintenance checks
Long-term benefits of a boiler service
Booking your service
Why a boiler service is needed
Before we look at why summer is a good time to have a boiler service, it’s worth having a reminder about the importance of having one in the first place. An annual service ensures that your boiler and the vital components of the system generally are all in optimum working condition. You’ll also need to have a service to ensure its warranty stays valid.
Key safety checks are also carried out, including visual checks on the boiler itself and its casing, pipework inspections, magnetic filter checks, and inspecting the seals and electrical connections within the boiler. Take a look at this list to see what else takes place during a boiler service.
Servicing a boiler in the summer months
With the warm weather meaning you’ll have less need for heating, it’s a good time to give your boiler its annual service to prepare it (and you) for the cooler months. There’s never a good time for a boiler repair to be required but if this happens during the summer months, the inconvenience will be less than if it happens when you have greater demand for heating.
Having a service in summer also means that you can get all the key safety checks we’ve mentioned previously before engineers become busy with emergency repair callouts. This means you can have full peace of mind that your boiler will be ready to work when the temperatures start to drop.
Other summer maintenance checks to carry out
There are other simple steps you can take during the summer months alongside having a boiler service. Our engineer has some top tips to get you started, which you can hear about in this video:
You can set your boiler to only heat your water and not your space, rather than switch it off entirely. This can cause parts of your system to seize up and potentially fail when the system comes back on, so keeping it active and operating at a low level maintains the overall efficiency. The boiler has a 24 hour pump exercise to ensure it never seizes up when the central heating is switched off for long summer periods.
