ASHP service do you bother and if you do how much do you get charged?

MultiFuelBurner

So our Ecodan can with a service manual and for the last couple of years we have done the regular maintenance and kept an eye on performance and pressures etc.

Before Christmas next doors had theirs serviced and the guy was there for four hours they passed on his number and yep at  ours for four hours checking everything and talking through it all so we learnt a lot more about our setup. It was a bargain as he is a retired heating engineer but looking around some people are charging £200+ for less than an hour and a half s work.

matelodave

I had mine done annually whilst it was under warranty - the installing company did a package deal over the three years which worked out at about £60 a service

It's now 14 years old and I've had it done two or three times since. I think the last time it cost me around £100 but that would probably have been in 2019

TBH there not much to be done, check the tightness of the connections, repressurise the hot water expansion vessel (which I think needs doing again) and an auto bleed valve got changed around eight years ago.

I've cleaned a flow switch which started sticking about four Christmases ago and the service place was closed but apart from that nothing. The heating system pressure has slowly faded from 1.5 to 1 bar since the last service but I can top that up myself if I want to.

I'll probably squander the price of a service come spring time  but thats mainly to check the hotwater and expansion tank and safety valves

Reed_Richards

My heat pump costs me £120 p.a. to service by my installer but he did such a good job with the installation and has done various tweaks without charging me extra and he got me a full replacement heat pump under warranty when my old one developed a coolant leak.  So I am very satisfied with the service I get.

MultiFuelBurner

The installers of ours (people that built the house - one off build) sadly retired.

However we have a got a nice local chap who does it for £90 and talks us through everything and we learn a bit each time. 

Will keep that up.