Honest, practical advice from SUBGAS Plumbing & Heating Ltd, covering Hamilton and the wider South Lanarkshire. Tap a guide to read more.
Most heating problems people call us about start with one sentence: "one of the radiators has gone cold." The useful part is that a radiator tells you roughly what is wrong by where it goes cold, and a fair few faults are ones you can sort yourself in ten minutes.
Most boilers in Scotland get replaced in a hurry, usually in January when the old one packs in and the house is freezing.
A boiler that dies on a wet January morning in Blantyre feels like an emergency, and sometimes it is.
Getting a straight answer on boiler prices is harder than it should be, because the honest answer depends on your house as much as the boiler.
The short answer is once a year, every year, ideally before the cold weather arrives.
If you are weighing up a heat pump for your home, the price you see in headlines rarely matches the quote that lands in your inbox.
If you're pricing up a new boiler, you've probably found figures online ranging from under two thousand pounds to well over five, which isn't much help.
If your boiler is ticking along happily, it is easy to forget it needs any attention at all.
Replacing your heating is a big decision, and the choice between an air source heat pump and a new gas boiler is rarely as simple as the headlines suggest.
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