The appliance nobody books, and the one that most deserves it
Plenty of houses on this side of the North Shore have a flued gas heater, and in most of them it is the only appliance in the house that burns fuel indoors and has never been looked at by anybody.
That combination is worth thinking about for a moment. A flued heater produces the products of combustion inside the room, and it relies entirely on its flue to take them out of the building. The burner, the seals, the combustion chamber and the flue are all things that degrade with time and use.
None of them tell you when they do. A heater that is dirty, poorly sealed or venting badly still lights, still gets hot and still feels like it is working. The only way that gets found is by somebody qualified opening it up and testing it.
So the recommendation is dull and worth following: get it serviced before the cold weather rather than during it, and if it has been sitting unused for several years, book it before you light it rather than after. Manufacturers commonly suggest every two years, and annually is not excessive on an older unit.
- Flue checked, not just the burnerObstruction and integrity both
- Booked before the seasonRather than on the first cold night
- Told plainlyIf something is outside spec, you hear it
- Licensed gas fitterNSW Licence 368473C, fully insured
