Why You Shouldn’t Wait Until Winter To Get Your Boiler Serviced

When you are sat with all your doors and windows open and are enjoying your outdoor space until it goes dark in an evening, you will be sparing little thought for your boiler and how it will perform over the upcoming winter months. But forethought and planning are an important part of running and managing a home and are a reason why you should schedule your boiler service during the summer rather than the winter, and this doesn’t make the summer months any less enjoyable.  

Many people ask how frequently you should service your boiler, and that largely depends on the age and type of boiler, but a general rule is that you should service your boiler at least once a year. This annual service should be carried out by a qualified GasSafe engineer, and involves a series of visual inspections and tests. A boiler service will take around one hour and is intended to ensure the boiler is operating safely and efficiently. An annual boiler service may be a condition of your boiler’s warranty, so is essential from that point of view, but it is also important in terms of ensuring the boiler operates with optimum energy efficiency, and is safeguarded against unforeseen breakdowns.  

A boiler service is essential, but it is more cost-effective and makes more sense to service your boiler in the summer months, and here are five reasons why: 

1. Convenience – Everyone likes a bit of convenience in their lives, but with a boiler service this is two-fold. Firstly, a boiler service in the summer will be much easier to arrange because gas engineers will be less busy. People only use their boilers for hot water during the summer, so there are less breakdowns and gas engineers generally have more availability. This means your service will be quicker to arrange, and you will probably get a better quality of service also because the engineer isn’t rushing off to another job. The second reason why a summer boiler service is more convenient is that the boiler will be offline for a period of time while the service takes place, this will be more comfortable and accommodating in the summer because you won’t need it for heating. 

1. Cost – A summer boiler service will typically be cheaper than in the winter, again because of the time demands on the gas engineer. Their services are much more valuable in the winter when everyone wants and needs them, meaning some businesses and independent engineers will charge a reduced rate in the summer, in part to incentivise people and to ensure they have regular work all year round.  

1. Efficiency – During the winter your boiler is an essential feature of your home’s infrastructure and it is working at full capacity in providing hot water and heating for all your family. It is therefore better to service and maintain the boiler when it is not at full capacity, enabling any faults to be rectified when there is less demand on it. Rectifying efficiency issues in the summer means the boiler is ready to generate energy savings in the winter. 

1. Fault detection – If the service identifies any faults with component parts which need replacing, it is better to identify that in the summer, when disruption is minimised. This also means that you are less likely to experience unforeseen breakdowns over winter because all the faults have been detected and addressed and the system has been cleaned and maintained.  

1. Peace of mind – When you put your garden furniture away at the end of summer and get ready for the long winter months ahead, you can take great comfort and peace of mind from having already invested in a boiler service. This confirms that you and your family will be safe and warm throughout the winter, and until the good weather returns again.  

Contact Emergency Cover for boiler cover and servicing 

At Emergency Cover we recognise the need and value in having your boiler serviced in the summer, and as such we have ready and available resources stationed all over the country ready to react to your needs. You can sign-up for a boiler cover plan which provides 24/7 call-out cover for emergency repairs, but also includes a free annual boiler service in the price of the cover plan. We also undertake new boiler installations, which can include annual boiler servicing thereafter. So contact our team to discuss our cover plans and sign-up today.