Boiler servicing in Bolton — £105 including VAT

The questions people ask

What happens

1. You book, and you get the price then. Not after the visit, and not “from” a figure. The total, before anyone sets off.
2. Chris services the appliance to its own schedule. Every manufacturer specifies something slightly different — yours gets what yours needs, and the analyser readings are recorded as they are taken.
3. You get the record, and it stays on file. Logged digitally against your address, so next year starts from what was found this year rather than from scratch.

If it needs more than a service

Roughly one appliance in ten has been left long enough that a full strip-down clean is the only way to do the job properly. If yours is one of them, you are told what it costs before a spanner goes near it, and you can say no.

A service is a check and a clean. It is not a promise that nothing will ever fail — but it is the thing that finds the fault while it is still cheap.

Landlords — the certificate as well

Distance, and extra appliances

£105 is the price wherever you are. There is no distance uplift on a service — five minutes away or twenty miles out, it is the same figure. I do not normally travel beyond 20 miles from BL2 2TA.

A gas fire is also £105 including VAT. A cooker is from £45. Where you want more than one appliance done at the same visit, I price the whole visit before you book so you know the total in advance.

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 service is only worth what the person doing it is assessed to judge. Competence on gas is assessed category by category under the Accredited Certification Scheme and reassessed every five years. The ones behind an annual service 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

Landlords: the same visit can produce your CP12 — landlord gas safety certificates sets out the prices. If the service turns up a fault, boiler repairs explains the call-out and the labour bands, and heating system maintenance covers the radiators, cylinder and controls beyond the appliance itself. What you are left holding afterwards — the checklist, the certificate, and the reminder before it is due again — is set out in how I work.

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.