Commercial Boiler Repairs
Herts Boilers offers commercial and industrial boiler repairs and servicing in St Albans, Hemel Hempstead, Hatfield, Watford, Harpenden, Radlett, Welwyn Garden City, and in Hertfordshire.
We also offer commercial and industrial boiler repairs services in London via:
http://www.londonboilers.co.uk/
The engineering behind commercial boilers is not a rocket science. Commercial boilers are just large scale and need to be robust and reliable, their operation principles are the same as domestic boilers, sometimes even simpler than domestic boilers. Once commercial boilers have been installed properly, they are not difficult to repair if they break down.
Commercial boiler repairs are expensive for obvious reasons. We are a local company with commercial boiler qualifications and experience. We have the ability to find the faulty parts in a commercial boiler or heating breakdown, and to get it fixed in an efficient way and at a competitive rate.
We are also electricians with commercial scopes so we understand boiler electronics and plant room controls better than most other commercial gas engineers.
What makes a boiler commercial?
- Being defined as commercial by its manufacturer, or
- Being installed in a commercial building, or
- Having a large heat output (> 70kW)
BMS (Building Management System) and commercial boilers
Some modern commercial boilers are controlled by BSM via OpenTherm. If to replace an existing commercial boiler, it is needed to take this as a primary consideration for new boiler make and model, ie, new boiler should be OpenTherm compatible.
Are there many gas operatives who can repair commercial boilers?
No, Less than 5% of total gas engineers have commercial gas tickets.
Can a domestic gas engineer repair a commercial boiler?
No. Otherwise he or she will be working outside the scope. The severity of the offence is the same as an illegal gas worker on domestic boilers.
But some domestic gas engineers are permitted to do pool boiler repairs, providing they hold HWB1 ticket.
Are there many gas operatives who can repair commercial boilers?
Only a couple of independent gas engineers in St Albans have the necessary qualification to work on commercial boilers.
Even for domestic boilers, probably only one in four gas operatives is competent at repairs.
Swimming Pool Boiler Repairs:
Being a boiler specialist, we have been involved in swimming pool boiler service and repairs in Hertfordshire and north London.
Again, pool boilers are not very complicated compared to domestic boilers, but if it is a direct heat to the pool water, it needs a special ACS qualification to work on it legally, this ticket is called HWB1.
Most of newlish indoor pools are using indrect heat from a boiler to pool water through Air Handling Unit (AHU), which has a heat exchanger for water heat and air heat.
As a small local business we have the advantage of a quick response, reasonable callout fees and, more importantly, being very competent at pool boiler repairs.
Charges:
We don't do free callouts for commercial boiler diagnosis and repairs, unless it is a solo replacement quote visit.
We charge a callout £100 + VAT for an initial diagnostic visit. Once we diagnose the boiler problem, we will then discuss the price of the failed parts and labour costs with customers. We always offer a "no fix no fee" policy for the following repairs. Even in commercial areas, we still adopt a transparent pricing policy. If we can't fix a boiler, we don't charge then (apart from initial callout), ie, we don't charge fees by hours.