Gone are the days when people used to warm up their houses with furnaces. With the invention of boilers and their cost effective usage, people have started adopting boilers over furnaces. Ideally, boilers can further be classified into two broad categories: hot water and steam. Where the hot water boilers are considered as the traditional heating systems, the steam boilers are comparatively more modern and new in heating systems. But steam boilers work on higher temperature as compared to the hot water boilers as they need to generate steam and not just the hot water.

But be it an electric furnace or a boiler, you need to maintain them properly in order to keep them in good working condition. So, the first and foremost thing to do in order to keep good maintenance record of your furnace and boiler is to keep them on annual servicing. You need to understand that it is far better to put them on regular maintenance servicing rather than undergoing boiler repair. Repairing a boiler is not only an expensive deal but is also an inconvenient process. So, rather than forcing your heating applications to demand for a repair it is easy to check them on regular basis under a accredited plumber or professional service engineer.

To avoid unnecessary boiler repair, it becomes mandatory to opt for regular boiler servicing as it not only ensures the efficient functioning of it but also make sure a safe and secure environment. Many people might not know, but the faulty or the poor functioning of the boilers can generate carbon monoxide which is so poisonous that it can create fatal circumstances for the humans as well as pets. Thus, it is highly recommended to arrange an annual maintenance service for your boiler. And if you can manage, then put your boilers on maintenance service before the starting of winters as they are used most often in winters only.

But before you book a maintenance service for your boiler, make sure that it covers all the following points:

First and foremost, a service engineer or a accredited plumber should inspect the boiler controls so as to ensure that it is operating safely.

Next inspection should compromise of inspection of corrosions and leakages.

Once the boiler is done with inspection then the casing of the boiler is removed to check the proper functioning of all the components of the boiler

Gas pressure is the next vital thing to check as it ensures that the boiler is working on the right gas pressure or not.

Flue test is yet another mandatory thing to do in maintenance service check list so as to check that no unsafe emissions or leakage is being released from the boiler’s equipment.

• Besides all this, all components of the boiler are also cleaned.

A regular maintenance service will compromise of all the above check list points. Make sure, that your service engineer handover the complete check list with maintainence record to you after every service.