How To Tell When You Need A Heating Contractor For Your Boiler

Boilers are strange machines. Because they are part plumbing and part heating, you are never quite sure who to call when these machines do not work. Do you call the plumber, or do you call the heating contractor? Read some information to help you know how to tell when you need the heating contractor and not the plumber.

Something Inside the Boiler Is Making Quite the Racket

Loud, grating, rolling, or rumbling noises that are atypical for any machine means that you should be calling the professional that can fix the machine. If that is what your boiler is doing, call the HVAC technician. The plumber is not likely to know what is mechanically wrong with your boiler unless the plumber has had some experience fixing these things. 

You Are Getting Zero Heat in Your Home/Building

If your boiler seems to be working overtime, yet your home or your building feels very cold (or worse, you can see your breath!), there is definitely something wrong with the boiler itself. Your heating contractor/technician will need to open up the boiler to see which components are not doing their job. Then the contractor/technician will replace those parts so that you can get heat again. While he/she is working on that, make sure all of your plumbing and pipes are well-insulated so that any cold weather does not cause them to freeze. (Otherwise, you may need a plumber, too, when the pipes rupture.)

The Boiler Seems to Be Lacking Power

This is often a point of confusion for consumers who have a boiler. They do not realize that a boiler does not generate its own power. The boiler relies on gas and/or electricity to operate. It cannot boil water into steam to create heat without first being powered by something else. When the boiler does not seem to have any power or "life" at all, there is a connection there that is disconnected.

The contractor/technician has to figure out if the problem is a wiring one or if there is a bad connection between the boiler and your thermostat. Sometimes it has nothing to do with the boiler at all, and the problem is entirely with the thermostat! Replacing the thermostat will fix that problem. Then your boiler should fire up easily because the new thermostat will send the proper electrical signals to the appliance to get it going. If it is a wiring problem, that is also a quick fix.

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