Common boiler problems

Low water pressure

• You need to make sure your boiler is filled to between 1 – 2 bar

If your boiler is showing zero on the display you need to fill your boiler via a fliing loop. This is located under the boiler via a filling loop with a black lever.

written by John-Paul Harris 20/07/2024

Boiler service

It’s important to get your boiler serviced through the summer months so you can be prepared for the winter. There are many things that can be looked at in the summer for the cost of £100 that doesn’t mean you will get hit with ...

Upgrade your boiler to a condensing boiler these are 90% efficient

Condensing boilers use the same gases twice. This is why it comes out as a liquid making them 90-95 % more effiecient than your old conventional boiler which runs around 70% efficiency

Turn down the thermostat on the wall by a few degrees ...

Taking on our first female apprentice

It was September 2018 and this is when our business starts to become really busy. People come back off their holidays and the weather starts to change so people start to use their central heating.

College starts and school leavers decide to look at their careers etc. or maybe ...

Sludge in your heating system

• Radiators cold at the bottom is first warning sign
• Bleeding radiators black coloured water
• Radiators not getting as hot as they used to

What causes sludge?

• It’s when water and steel in radiators oxidize and cause a black substance

Older systems

I tend to find that its old heating systems that attract more sludge. Maybe because there is a header tank in the loft and more air gets into the system. You tend to ...