Central Heating Insurance -
Something Very Worth Thinking About
If you were to ask a UK homeowner, especially during these freezing cold winter months, what was more important: their car, their television or their central heating system, the chances are that they would answer that the central heating system wins it. If you were to follow up your first question with "so why it is not insured against breakdown?" they might find it difficult to come up with an answer, apart from perhaps saying "I didn't know there was such a thing!".
While the central heating system is one of the most important domestic appliances you will find, faced with the task of providing hot water for showers and baths, laundry as well as a wide variety of other uses in the home, and the doubly important task of keeping the home warm during the winter months, it is often taken for granted.
And when something does go wrong, it comes like a bolt from the blue, as if central heating systems are not supposed to break down. Only a family that has been left without hot water and heat for a few days will tell you what a difficult situation that can be. And according to Murphy's Law, when do central heating systems break down? During the coldest winter days, when you need them the most.
And with central heating repair men usually working flat out to service other clients with the same problems, the chances of getting one to come out to help you get your heating system operational again within a reasonable time frame is as cold as the ice on your duck pond.
That's when you realise that taking out central heating insurance is a good idea, and something that you should have done a long time ago. And if your repair is big one, you also realise that you could have covered the cost of a good few years of central heating insurance ahead of time. You flash back to the moment when the company that installed your central heating system offers you a chance to extend your guarantee, and you gave out that most cynical of replies "I'll think about it and get back to you". Now you wish you had.
If you had paid for a central heating insurance service, you would have been eligible to receive a complimentary annual service call, before the winter kicked in, to make sure that your system was functioning as it should and would be ready to cope with the extra strains of the winter.
And in the case of a breakdown, you have a name and an address to call out, and that means around the clock, and a licensed engineer will be dispatched immediately to carry out repairs.
So if you do not have central heating insurance, don't freeze yourself out. Contact The Gas Safety Trust and make sure you won't be left out in the cold.
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