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The annual service is broadly the same job on every gas boiler: a full internal inspection, a flue and ventilation check, a combustion analysis, and testing of the safety devices, all carried out to the manufacturer’s instructions by a Gas Safe registered engineer. What differs enormously between brands is the paperwork each manufacturer demands in return for honouring a guarantee.

Quick answer

Our engineers service every major gas boiler brand installed in London homes. The service itself follows the same core checklist whatever the badge, because that is what Gas Safe requires — but the warranty conditions attached to each brand differ sharply, and those differences are what decide whether your guarantee survives.

The four we see most

Four brands, four completely different sets of rules

These are the makes we service most across London, and the ones where the guarantee conditions are strict enough to be worth reading before you book. Each page covers the manufacturer’s published terms, the fault codes that appliance actually shows, and what changes on the visit.

Greenstar Servicing

Worcester Bosch

The most common make in London homes, and the one where guarantee length is most often misunderstood. Worcester’s filter uplift applies to some Greenstar ranges and not others, and the wrong filter earns nothing at all.

  • Filter uplift applies on some ranges but not the 2000 or 1000
  • Two fault code conventions depending on the boiler’s generation
  • Service reminder at 2,324 burner hours is not a fault
Worcester Bosch servicing detail

ecoTEC Servicing

Vaillant

The brand with the most precise paperwork requirements of the major makes. Vaillant names the Benchmark logbook in its guarantee terms, enforces a hard 30-day registration window, and voids cover for non-genuine parts.

  • Registration within 30 days or the guarantee reverts to 12 months
  • Service details must be recorded in the Benchmark logbook
  • Non-genuine spare parts invalidate the guarantee
Vaillant servicing detail

Logic & Vogue Servicing

Ideal

Among the longest headline warranties on the UK market, and among the most easily broken. On a Max boiler the included system filter has to be registered at the same time as the boiler, which very few owners know.

  • Twelve years on Vogue Max via a Max accredited installer
  • Boiler and system filter must be registered simultaneously
  • A CO to CO2 ratio of 0.004 decides how the boiler is serviced
Ideal servicing detail

Baxi & Duo-tec Servicing

Baxi

The most layered conditions of the four, and the only one with a separate filter penalty. Three requirements all have to hold, and the Baxi 800 adds a fourth on top of them — but the warranty follows the boiler if you move.

  • Registration, Benchmark checklist and annual service — all three required
  • Baxi 800: filter registered and maintained, or it drops to two years
  • Two fault code families depending on the boiler’s generation
Baxi servicing detail

That is the useful thing this page can tell you. One brand names a specific logbook and voids cover if non-genuine parts are fitted. Another adds years for a filter on some ranges and nothing at all on others. A third will cut a twelve year warranty to twelve months because the filter was not registered in the same moment as the boiler. A fourth applies two separate penalty tiers depending on which condition you missed. None of that is obvious from the brochure, and most of it is decided before a servicing company ever sees the boiler.

Below, the four brands we are asked about most get a page each, covering their guarantee structure, their fault code conventions and what our engineers check on that make specifically. Every other brand we service gets a proper paragraph here rather than a page of its own, because there is only so much that is genuinely brand-specific to say, and padding it out would waste your time.

What the Benchmark checklist is, and why it keeps coming up

Benchmark is a national scheme managed and promoted by the Heating and Hot Water Industry Council. The commissioning checklist sits at the back of the boiler instruction manual, with the servicing record alongside it, and the installer completes it to show the appliance was installed and commissioned in line with the manufacturer’s instructions.

It matters because manufacturers reference it directly in their warranty terms. Baxi states plainly that the installer must complete the Benchmark checklist when finishing the installation. Vaillant requires the annual service details to be recorded in the Benchmark logbook and kept available for inspection. Failing to install and commission in line with the manufacturer’s instructions and complete the checklist can invalidate a warranty outright.

The practical consequence for a homeowner is simple and slightly uncomfortable: the boiler manual is not disposable. It is the document your service history is supposed to live in. If you have moved into a London property and the manual is nowhere to be found, that is worth knowing about now rather than during a breakdown.

The system filter clause almost every brand now has

Over the last few years the major manufacturers have converged on system water treatment as a warranty condition, and it is now one of the most common reasons a claim runs into trouble. The specifics differ sharply and the differences matter. Worcester adds years to some Greenstar ranges if a full Greenstar System Filter is fitted — but not to the 2000 or the 1000, and not if the filter is the Micro version. Baxi requires a magnetic filter to be fitted and maintained on the 800 or the warranty drops to two years. Ideal requires the filter supplied with a Max boiler to be registered at the same moment as the boiler itself. Vaillant ties its extended tiers to a Vaillant filter registered alongside the appliance.

The strictest of the lot is not one of the big four. Ferroli makes a high-performance magnetic filter mandatory outright: without one, the warranty is one year only. ATAG puts a named filter in the water treatment pack that separates its twelve year standard cover from its eighteen year option. If there is a filter on your system, it is load-bearing.

The standards side agrees. BS 7593:2019, the code of practice for preparation, commissioning and maintenance of domestic heating systems, expects an in-line filter to be permanently installed, the system to be cleaned before it is dosed with inhibitor, and the filter to be serviced as part of the annual boiler service. Filters are specified to capture both magnetic and non-magnetic debris.

So if there is a filter on your system, it is not decoration, and opening and cleaning it is part of a proper annual service rather than an optional extra. If there is no filter at all and your boiler is a recent installation, that is worth raising, because it may affect where you stand.

What is the same whatever badge is on the front

Working on gas appliances in the UK is legally restricted to engineers on the Gas Safe Register, and that applies to installation, repair and routine maintenance alike. Every registered engineer carries a Gas Safe ID card showing their licence number and the specific work they are qualified to do, and you are entitled to ask to see both sides of it before any work starts. The register can be checked directly using that licence number.

Gas Safe’s requirement is that the engineer services the appliance in line with the manufacturer’s instructions for that specific boiler. That is the thread connecting everything on this page: the manufacturer writes the procedure, the engineer follows it, and the written record proves it happened. It is also why we ask for the make and model when you book, rather than treating every boiler as interchangeable.

Servicing frequency is the other constant. Annually is the standard recommendation and the usual condition attached to a warranty, and a missed year can be enough to break the chain even when nothing was wrong with the appliance that year.

  • Full internal inspection of the boiler’s components
  • Flue and ventilation check
  • Combustion analysis to confirm the boiler is burning safely and efficiently
  • Testing of the safety devices that shut the boiler down on a fault
  • A written service record handed over at the end of the visit

How to find out what boiler you actually have

Most people do not know their boiler’s model, and that is completely normal. The range name is usually printed on the front casing — Greenstar, ecoTEC, Logic, Vogue, Duo-tec. The fuller model designation and serial number are on a data badge, which is generally inside the front casing or on the underside of the boiler.

If you can find the range name and roughly when the boiler was installed, that is enough for us to bring the right service instructions and the right parts knowledge. If you can also find the manual with its Benchmark section, better still — on some brands that is where the service history has to be recorded.

And if you can find none of it, book anyway and say so. The engineer will identify the appliance on site. It just means slightly less can be prepared in advance.

The rest of the list

Every other brand we service

These brands get a paragraph rather than a page, because a paragraph is genuinely all there is to say that is specific to them. Where a brand has something distinctive — a heat exchanger material, an unusual design decision, a change of corporate ownership — it is noted. Where it does not, we say that too.

Viessmann

Stainless steel

Viessmann Climate Solutions became part of Carrier Global in January 2024, and Viessmann UK now carries "a Carrier company" on its own site. Its distinguishing feature at a service is the Inox-Radial stainless steel heat exchanger used across the Vitodens range, which Viessmann covers with a separate ten year guarantee against leakage caused by corrosion — a promise sitting underneath the boiler warranty rather than part of it. The boiler warranty itself is shorter than people assume: two years as standard, extending to seven free of charge if the installation is registered within 30 days, with paid extensions beyond that depending on model. Viessmann is explicit that annual servicing is what qualifies each subsequent year of cover, so a missed service does not just risk the warranty, it stops the clock advancing.

Glow-worm

Vaillant Group UK

Glow-worm is a trading name, brand and registered trademark of Vaillant Group UK Limited, operating from the same Belper site as Vaillant itself. That relationship is genuinely useful rather than trivia: Glow-worm warranty repairs are carried out by Vaillant service engineers, and Glow-worm uses the same F.xx fault code convention as its premium sibling, so an engineer who knows the ecoTEC platform is not starting from scratch. Warranty lengths run by range — the Energy at seven years, the Ultimate at five, with longer periods available through the group installer scheme — and the same hard rule applies as on a Vaillant: register within 30 days or it reverts to twelve months. Glow-worm’s terms require an annual service by a Glow-worm or other Gas Safe registered engineer, and note the service cost is not included.

Potterton

Absorbed into Baxi

Potterton is one of the most recognisable names in British heating, but the domestic brand has largely been absorbed. Its own domain now redirects to Baxi, and Baxi’s current brand listing carries Potterton Commercial under commercial heating rather than domestic. What survives on the domestic side is a small number of Potterton-badged products within Baxi Heating, including the Potterton Titanium Heat, published at seven years parts and labour. In practice most Potterton boilers we are asked to service are older appliances in unmodernised London properties, where the visit is about safety, condition and honest advice on parts availability rather than warranty paperwork. Being group products, they use Baxi’s E-code fault convention.

Vokèra

Now Ariston Group

Vokèra trades as Vokèra by Riello, and its corporate home has just changed: Ariston Group completed its acquisition of the Riello business from Carrier on 1 July 2026, and Vokèra’s own site now states it is subject to the direction and coordination of Ariston Holding. That makes Vokèra, Ariston and ATAG stablemates, which matters mainly for parts and technical support routes rather than day-to-day servicing. The current range runs Pinnacle, Synergy, Vibe MAX and Easi-Heat, with published warranties from five up to twelve years by model. The Pinnacle uses a stainless steel heat exchanger with a wide modulation range. We could not verify on a Vokèra-owned page whether annual servicing is a hard warranty condition, so if that matters to you, confirm it with Vokèra directly rather than assuming.

Alpha

Immergas group

Alpha is part of the Italian Immergas group and has been selling in the UK for around sixty years, with its head office in Kent. It is most often specified where installed cost is the deciding factor, which puts it firmly in the London landlord and developer segment. Alpha publishes warranties in the seven to ten year range depending on model, with the E-Tec Plus NX carrying ten years as standard and extensions available when its wall-mounting jig is fitted, and registration required within 30 days. Alpha is blunter than most about servicing: it states that failure to have the boiler annually serviced during the guarantee period will invalidate the warranty. Current ranges are the E-Tec NX, E-Tec Plus NX, Evoke NX, InTec and ProTec NX.

Ariston

Ariston Group

Ariston Group is an Italian manufacturer listed in Milan, and its portfolio has grown considerably — it already owned ATAG Heating, Elco and Wolf, and completed its acquisition of Riello, and with it Vokèra, in July 2026. The distinctive engineering feature on its UK combi range is the patented Xtratech stainless steel heat exchanger, a single-coil design with substantially wider waterways intended to resist debris blockage, which is a sensible thing to know on a system with any history of sludge. Ariston requires registration within 30 days from commissioning and states the product must be professionally serviced every twelve months by a competent person. We are deliberately not quoting a headline warranty length here: Ariston’s UK product pages would not yield one reliably, and the figures circulating on merchant sites are not something we are willing to repeat as fact.

Navien

Korean manufacturer

Navien is the UK arm of KD Navien of South Korea, established here in 2014 and based in Guildford. The parent company launched Asia’s first condensing gas boiler in 1982, which is a longer condensing pedigree than most of the brands it competes against in the UK. Navien publishes up to twelve years on its NCB500 and NCB700 combi ranges, and is unambiguous about the condition: all warranty lengths are subject to the undertaking of an annual service from the installation date. The NCB700 is rated to serve three bathrooms simultaneously with the appropriate controller, which is why it turns up in larger London houses where hot water demand rather than heating load drove the specification. Parts lead times are worth factoring in on any less common brand.

Intergas

Fewest moving parts

Intergas is the most genuinely different design on this list and worth understanding on its own terms. Its combis have no diverter valve, no valve motor, no auto air vent and no secondary plate heat exchanger — Intergas removes them by using a single two-in-one heat exchanger with two separate circuits that does both the heating and the hot water job. As Intergas puts it, the parts that tend to stick, leak or let you down are not there. For a servicing engineer that removes a whole category of the failure modes we spend most of our time on, and the Xtreme adds passive flue gas heat recovery on top. Registration must be within 30 days of commissioning or cover drops to twelve months, and fitting an Intergas system filter adds to the warranty period. We are not quoting a specific length because two Intergas-owned pages currently give different figures for the same range.

ATAG

Lifetime heat exchanger

ATAG is a Dutch manufacturer acquired by Ariston in 2014, and it publishes the longest headline warranty in the UK: twelve years as standard with an eighteen year option. The upgrade is conditional rather than automatic, requiring a compatible smart control plus a water treatment pack built around a named magnetic filter — which is a consistent theme across this whole page, and on ATAG it is the difference between twelve and eighteen years. Underneath all of it sits the genuinely distinctive promise: a lifetime guarantee on the iCon stainless steel heat exchanger, regardless of which warranty tier the boiler is on. The condition is the familiar one, and ATAG states it plainly — the annual service by your installer is what keeps the warranty valid.

Ferroli

Strictest filter rule

Ferroli Ltd operates from Walton-on-Trent in Derbyshire and is part of the Italian family-owned Ferroli group, founded in Verona in 1955. Its current featured domestic range in the UK is the Bluehelix HiTech RRT. Ferroli is worth reading carefully because it has the strictest filter condition of any brand on this page: seven years as standard, upgradeable to ten for a stated fee, registration required within 30 days, and a high-performance magnetic filter is mandatory — without one the warranty is one year only. Not reduced, not tiered down: one year. Ferroli also requires the appliance to be annually serviced to keep the warranty valid. If you have a Ferroli and no filter on the system, that is worth establishing before you need to rely on the cover.

Main

Baxi Heating

Main by Baxi sits within Baxi Heating alongside Baxi itself, Megaflo, Heatrae Sadia, Andrews Water Heaters and Remeha. The standalone brand is being folded in — the old Main Heating website now states it has transitioned into Baxi, and the product is listed on Baxi’s own site as the Baxi MainEco Compact, published at five years parts and labour. Baxi describes Main as high efficiency boilers available exclusively through independent merchants, which is an unusual and quite specific route to market: it is why Main boilers tend to appear where a local installer sourced the appliance rather than where a developer specified it. Because Main sits inside Baxi Heating, the group’s approach to Benchmark documentation and service evidence is the right mental model, and it uses Baxi’s E-code faults.

Heatline

No current UK range

Heatline needs a more careful answer than the other entries here, because the usual sources are wrong. It is widely described online as a Vaillant Group brand, but Heatline does not appear among the brands Vaillant Group currently lists, and the Heatline UK website is now a placeholder that serves no product content on any path. We are not going to assert an ownership or a warranty position we could not verify. What we can say descriptively is this: no current Heatline range is being marketed in the UK, the last widely installed model was the Capriz2 combi, and existing units are still serviceable through third-party spares. If you have a Heatline in a London flat — and plenty of buy-to-let properties do — it is worth booking the annual service on condition and safety grounds and planning for the fact that parts sourcing will be less straightforward than on a current brand.

Ownership structures, warranty periods and product ranges change. Everything above was checked against manufacturer and group sources at the time of writing, and anything time-sensitive is flagged as such. If a guarantee position matters to a decision you are making, confirm the current terms with the manufacturer directly.

We are independent, and not accredited by any of these manufacturers

Every manufacturer name on this page is used descriptively, to tell you which appliances our engineers service. We are not an approved, accredited or affiliated installer for any of them, we are not on any manufacturer’s approved-installer scheme, and nothing here should be read as implying a partnership or endorsement.

What we are is a Gas Safe registered servicing firm working to the manufacturer’s published service instructions for whatever appliance is in front of us. Several of these manufacturers explicitly contemplate that: Vaillant’s terms refer to a Vaillant or other Gas Safe registered engineer, and Baxi confirms that a third party provider is acceptable provided proof of service history exists. Where a manufacturer’s accreditation scheme genuinely does affect something — as it does for extended guarantee lengths at installation time — we say so plainly on the brand page rather than glossing over it.

All trade marks and brand names referred to on this page belong to their respective owners.

Brand and warranty questions

Do you service every boiler brand?

We service the gas boiler brands commonly installed in London homes, which covers everything named on this page. Tell us the make and model when you book so the right manufacturer instructions and parts knowledge come with the engineer. If we could not properly service a particular appliance we would tell you rather than turn up and find out.

Does using an independent company void my manufacturer warranty?

Generally no, but the conditions vary by brand and the evidence matters. Vaillant’s terms refer to a Vaillant or other registered Gas Safe registered engineer. Baxi states the service can be done by a Gas Safe registered person, with proof of service history needed at repair time if a third party did it. What every manufacturer wants is that the service was done to their instructions and that you can show it was.

Which brand has the longest warranty?

At the time of writing the longest headline figure belongs to ATAG, at twelve years as standard with an eighteen year option, and it also carries a lifetime guarantee on its heat exchanger. Among the big four, Ideal publishes twelve years on Vogue Max via an accredited installer and Worcester twelve on the 8000+ ranges with a filter and an accredited installation. But headline lengths are conditional and decided at installation, so they are rarely the useful comparison — a shorter guarantee you actually satisfy beats a longer one you have already broken.

What happens if I have skipped a few years of servicing?

The warranty position is likely compromised, and no service can retrospectively repair a gap in the record. That does not make servicing pointless — it shifts the purpose from protecting paperwork to safety, efficiency and catching developing faults. Start the documented history now, because it only gets harder to reconstruct later.

Do I need the boiler manual for the service?

It helps significantly, and on some brands it matters a great deal. The Benchmark commissioning checklist and servicing record live at the back of the manual, and Vaillant specifically requires service details to be recorded there and available for inspection. If yours is missing, say so when you book.

Can you service the boiler and do a Landlord Gas Safety Certificate in one visit?

Yes, and most landlords do. They are different things — the certificate is a legal compliance inspection covering every gas appliance in the property, the service is maintenance on the boiler — but combining them into a single visit saves arranging two appointments and reduces disruption for tenants.

London coverage

Whatever the badge, all 33 boroughs

Fully Gas Safe registered engineers from Barking to Richmond. Tell us the make and model when you book so the right service instructions and parts knowledge come with the engineer.

Know the make? Tell us when you book.

The make, model and rough age of your boiler is all we need to confirm the visit and the quote. If you can't find it, the data badge is usually inside the front casing or on the underside of the boiler.

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