Daigle Plumbing & Heating
Daigle Plumbing & Heating

Don't Forget to Schedule your Annual Boiler Cleaning!

Cleaning includes:

  • Complete Vacuuming
  • Pump Pressure Check
  • Transformer Test
  • and more ...

Helpful Hints

Technical Tip:

If your heating system contains antifreeze, it is crucial to have it checked and recharged annually. Antifreeze breaks down over time, creating two problems. As the concentration is reduced, your heating system is less protected against freezing. The second is that as antifreeze breaks down it becomes corrosive, damaging boiler parts including your expansion tank and relief valve. Both of these problems are fully avoidable by having the antifreeze checked and kept up to proper concentration annually.

A dripping faucet is a small matter...Or is it? A faucet that drips every two seconds will fill four cups every hour, which equals 6 gallons per day. Over a month, this seemingly innocuous leak is causing 168 gallons of water to be wasted. If you are on town water and sewer, that leak is literally money down the drain. If you have a well, your pump will be cycling more frequently, costing you in both electricity and pump life. A leaky toilet flapper wastes even more water. Both problems result from the failure of inexpensive rubber parts that need periodic replacement.

Helpful Hints

Seasonal Reminder:

Every year during January or February there is a period of a week or longer of extreme cold and wind chill. To prevent frozen pipes during these cold snaps, leave the heat up 6-8 degrees higher than normal when you turn the thermostats down at night. Although the inside temperature may be at 60, that doesn't ensure that areas where pipes pass between floors or outside walls are sufficiently protected against freezing. Those few additional degrees of heat can provide that extra margin of safety against water damage.

Spring is the season where the water table is at its highest due to snow runoff and rain falling on partially frozen or saturated ground. Homeowners need to take precautions against indoor flooding. Check to make sure that the floats on sump pumps are unstuck. If you have foundation drains, check the exits to ensure they are free from plant and animal debris.

Your boiler has worked hard all winter, and is ready for a cleaning and tune up to prepare you for the Fall. Don't wait to have this important annual service performed.