Boiler advice video: Are you wasting money?
Friday, 21 October 2011
2:27 PM
Getting ready for the winter but worried about escalating energy prices?
Well luckily AboutProperty is able to offer you a few money saving boiler tips. Helpful aren't we?
Making sure your boiler is reliable and efficient (or replacing it altogether) can save you a lot of cash, especially in the long term.
A recent survey showed that a quarter of people don't get their boiler serviced annually and another quarter have never had it serviced at all.
That is despite recommendations from a wide range of sources that boilers should be serviced roughly once per year, not just to save money but also from a safety point of view.
Martyn Bridges, boiler expert, is here to offer you a few tips on boiler servicing and other boiler related issues. He is director of marketing and technical support at Worcester Boilers, Bosch Group.
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