It's the coldest morning of the year, the house is freezing and the boiler has stopped with a fault code. Before you panic, check the small plastic pipe outside. A…
You turn the heating up, hear the boiler fire, and a few minutes later it's gone quiet again. Or it locks out with a fault code every morning. A boiler…
For landlords, the first cold week of the year is when the phone starts ringing. A tenant has no heating, the boiler's locked out, or a pipe has burst in…
A small puddle under the boiler is easy to ignore, especially if the heating still seems to work. But water and boilers don't mix well, and a leak usually gets…
Most people remember to book a boiler service. Far fewer realise the big hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard needs one too. If yours is an unvented cylinder, the…
If your flat is on a communal heat network, your heating and hot water come from a central plant serving the whole building, delivered to your home through a heat…
Underfloor heating is usually worth it when it's planned into an extension, a kitchen refit, a loft conversion or a full renovation, where the floor is coming up anyway. It…
Fit a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm in every room with a fuel-burning appliance, such as a gas boiler, gas fire, wood burner or open fire, and consider one in bedrooms…
A heat interface unit (HIU) is the box in a flat or house connected to a communal or district heating network. It takes hot water from the building's central plant…
The most common sign of a gas leak is a smell like rotten eggs, which is added to natural gas so leaks can be detected. Other signs include a hissing…