Heating: When do you turn your heating off and when should you get your boiler serviced?

When should you get your boiler serviced?

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00:00So obviously Martin there is a big debate across the nation in terms of when it's appropriate to

00:05fully switch off your heating come the summer months. Why do you think it's such a contentious

00:10debate in households? I guess it's more pertinent now that our gas bills and electricity bills

00:19combined are approaching £2,000 a year on average. Ten years ago when they were less than half that

00:28it wasn't perhaps so hotly contested but nowadays of course yeah you turn your heating off

00:37well use it rather as infrequently as you can just to keep your bills low but there is also this fact

00:44that certain people are colder than others at certain times of the year and I think this point

00:51of the year spring time where you get slightly misled it looks rather nice and sunny outside

01:00but it's actually slightly colder than it looks and the other part of the end of summer when we're

01:06into autumn and approaching winter that's the other time of the year where people are sort of thinking

01:13oh gosh it's a bit fresh today you know shall I put the heating on or not. Yeah that's certainly the

01:19best time of the year to have your boiler serviced is through the summer period where it's probably only

01:26going to be used to create generate hot water the heating typically is off for on average two or three

01:34months at least of the summer months and probably a bit more with our fingers crossed. So yeah that's the

01:41time where we should all get our boilers serviced and they really should be serviced annually as well

01:47just to keep them at their best of efficiency and you know keep them durable for the expected time that

01:54they should live for really which is typically 12 to 15 years probably more economic just to heat the room

02:02in which you're occupying your office or bedroom or wherever it may be you're working from

02:08so a small localised heater for those instances rather than heating you know three bedrooms and

02:15all the rest of the house is probably more economic to do but there is a balance between uh wearing

02:21summer clothing in the autumn and winter and wearing obviously proper clothing which will keep you warm and

02:29still comfortable

02:38you