How to Choose a Local Heating Engineer

Whether your radiators are cold, or your boiler is making funny noises, it’s time to call in a local heating engineer. There are many different types of heating engineers, and some will specialise in certain parts of your home’s system. Typically, a heating engineer will be Gas Safe registered and have the qualifications to work on gas appliances in your house. Similarly, a plumber will be able to carry out plumbing works. Generally, these are separate tradespeople but some qualified individuals can do both and will have either the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineers or Gas Safe accreditation (or both).

When choosing a heating engineer to work on your home’s system it is important that they have experience in carrying out similar jobs to those you need. Asking friends and family for recommendations can be a great way to start your search for a heating engineer, but it’s also worth checking the engineer’s credentials by looking up their Gas Safe Register number on the Internet. This will ensure that any work carried out by your heating engineer will be completed to the highest industry standards and is done so safely.

Heating engineers play a key role in shaping how energy is used in UK buildings. Research into retrofit projects has suggested that the public may respond more favourably to low carbon technologies if heating engineers are engaged and supportive of them. It seems likely that the decarbonisation of heat will have significant impacts on, and require a new workforce of, heating engineers.