Jubo Heating & Electrical

If you let a property with gas appliances, the law requires an annual gas safety check by a Gas Safe registered engineer. Give the record to existing tenants within 28 days, to new tenants before they move in, and keep it two years. You can check up to two months early without losing your renewal date. That's the whole legal position in four sentences. The detail below is worth reading if you're new to letting, have just taken on another property, or have lost track of when yours is due. What...

For most homes, boiler size comes down to bathrooms rather than floor area. A one-bathroom house is usually fine on a 24 to 27kW combi. Two bathrooms point to 28 to 34kW. Three or more, or a house that runs two showers at once, usually needs a system boiler and a hot water cylinder instead. Bigger is not better. An oversized boiler costs more to buy, more to run, and cycles on and off in a way that shortens its life. It's one of the more common mistakes we're asked to put right. Why bathrooms...

A standard boiler swap takes one day. We generally arrive between 8 and 9, drain the system down, and your heating and hot water are off from roughly mid-morning until late afternoon. The old boiler goes with us, the room gets cleared up, and we run through the controls with you before we leave. If you've never had a boiler fitted before, the day itself is the bit nobody explains. You've agreed a price, booked a date, and now you're wondering whether you need to take the day off and what...