Boiler repair in Bolton — boilers, gas fires and water heaters

The questions people ask

How long repairs usually take

Parts, and what is guaranteed

I will not quote a part before I have confirmed the fault — the same symptom can mean a £15 part or a £200 one. Once diagnosed I tell you what it costs before fitting it. My workmanship is guaranteed for 24 months from the day I do the work — that covers the repair itself, how it was carried out. Any new part carries the manufacturer’s own warranty, which runs alongside mine from the same day rather than after it. What I cannot promise is a first-time fix on a system with more than one fault. Every job is logged, so if it recurs I pick up where I left off.

How a repair actually goes

1. I ask what it is doing before I set off. Fault code, noise, pressure, when it started, what changed. A lot of the diagnosis happens on the phone, and it decides what comes on the van.
2. I test in order rather than swapping parts. Gas pressure and tightness, combustion readings on the analyser, system pressure, the expansion vessel, the electrics. Readings get recorded, not remembered.
3. You get the fault, the fix and the figure before anything is fitted. Including the honest version where the sensible answer is a new appliance rather than a third repair.
4. The visit is logged with photographs. Against your address, so if it recurs I pick up where I left off instead of starting again.

Who does the work, and what I am assessed to do

Every visit is made by me. Gas Safe registered under 917962, a member of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering under 129130, WaterSafe approved for work on drinking water supplies, and City & Guilds trained, with over fifteen years in the trade. A repair means opening a working gas appliance and putting it back safe. Competence is assessed category by category under the Accredited Certification Scheme and reassessed every five years. The ones behind a breakdown call are: Also held on the gas side: TPCP1A for testing and purging pipework, and Building Regulations competence, which is what lets me notify an installation myself rather than sending you off to find a third party. All of it covers LPG as well as natural gas, and behind the domestic categories sit the commercial ones — CODNCO1, CORT1, CIGA1, CDGA1 and ICPN1 — plus the LPG changeover tickets for permanent dwellings, park homes and leisure accommodation. I take domestic and landlord work, so treat those as the depth of the assessment rather than a list of what I sell. Away from gas, assessed by NICEIC in December 2024: Unvented Hot Water Storage Systems, installation and servicing, in compliance with G3 of Approved Document G; the Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999; energy efficiency for domestic heating and hot water systems; solar thermal hot water; and air source heat pumps. Behind all of that sit a BTEC National Diploma in electrical and electronic engineering and City & Guilds electrical installation training — useful for understanding controls and wiring centres, though I am not an electrical contractor and do not present myself as one. None of it is a badge you buy. Gas Safe registration is renewed annually and the gas work I notify can be inspected. CIPHE members are vetted before joining, have to keep their skills current, and answer to an independent complaints panel. Every number here is checkable on somebody else’s website rather than mine — the credentials page tells you where.

Further information

If it is due its annual service anyway, boiler servicing is £105 including VAT and often cheaper than the two visits separately. If the fault is in the system rather than the appliance — cold radiators, dropping pressure, noisy pipes — that is heating system maintenance. If the boiler is beyond economic repair, new boiler installation sets out what a replacement involves. And if what you actually want to know is when I am turning up, you get a text when I set off and a live map link on the way — how I work explains that, and what goes on the job record while I am there. CMG’s terms set out the guarantee in full: 24 months on my workmanship, running from the day the work is done, alongside the manufacturer’s own guarantee on any part rather than after it.