6. REPAIRS AND REPLACEMENTS
Our guarantee for our work
As part of your maintenance contract we will complete any repairs or replacements of any parts that we checked during your annual service for the duration of the contract. If you call us out to a repair and we have not completed your annual service we will need to complete an annual service before completing any repairs.
Please note that as this a maintenance contract (rather than an insurance contract) and so any repairs or replacements required outside of the annual service may be subject to a separate charge if they are not related to the work that we carried out as part of the annual service.
If we have supplied any faulty parts, we will repair or replace any parts we’ve supplied within 12 months from the date that we carried out the work. This doesn’t affect your statutory rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, if applicable, and any laws that replace it. If you want independent advice about your rights, you can speak to Citizens Advice, or Trading Standards.
Callout fee for repairs outside the annual service
Your statement shows the call out fee that you’ve agreed to pay when you report a fault to us. You won’t need to pay a call out fee if we find a fault during your annual service.
The call out fee is a payment towards a repair you request. If you call us out again for the same fault within the contract period, you won’t have to pay an additional call out fee. Our engineers will use their expert judgement to assess whether it is the same fault.
When we book your repair, we’ll ask to pre-authorise your debit or credit card for any call out fee to the repair. If you’re a landlord, the pre-authorised credit or debit card call out fee can come from your tenants, letting agents or other party you have chosen. We won’t put the charges through until after we complete the repair.
If we have reason to believe that the people living in your home are at risk as a result of a health and safety hazard, we’ll send an engineer out even if we haven’t been able to pre-authorise a debit or credit card.
Instead, we will invoice you for the call out fee and any other applicable charges if the repair or replacement was outside your annual service after we’ve completed the work.
Safety advice
From time to time, we may tell you that your boiler, appliance or system needs repairs or improvements, to keep it working safely, but are not included under your contract, for example, if your ventilation doesn’t meet current Gas Safe regulations. If you decide not to follow this advice, we will not be able to complete any further repairs to your boiler or system, and your contract will keep running until you or we change or cancel it.
When this happens, you will still be liable for the agreed payments under the contract until it is cancelled.
Spare parts
We’ll provide replacements with similar functionality to the replaced parts but these might not have the exact same features. If you decide to give us a replacement part that you’ve bought yourself, we will install it as long as the replacement part is on our approval list.
We’ll try to get parts from the original manufacturer or our approved suppliers but if we cannot source the parts, we need we might cancel your contract.
If you have an older boiler there is a chance that we may not be able to get hold of all the parts we need to fix your boiler or central heating. If we’ve agreed to maintain a boiler or system but warned you that it might be difficult to find spare parts, we’ll do what we can, within reason, to repair it. If you are able to find a manufacturer approved part, we will be happy to fit it and reimburse you if you give us a receipt.
The 24/7 Powerflush
Over time, gas central heating systems build up sludge that can block or narrow your pipes, radiators and boiler parts. The 24/7 Power Flush is our way of removing that sludge from your system. We’ll tell you if your system needs a power flush to work properly. Please note that this will cost extra as this is not included in your care package.
If someone else carries out a powerflush for you, we will need to see the receipt before we are able to carry out any more repairs or replacement work for damage caused by sludge.
Recovering losses caused by third parties
If you request a repair, replacement or service under your contract or care package you will give us all the help necessary to recover any losses owed to us from third parties, following any repair or replacement that we carry out. We may ask you to give us help to recover loses before or after we carry out any repair or replacement.