Heating service & repair in Ballarat.

In Ballarat your heater works harder and longer than almost anywhere in Victoria. A frosty Central Highlands winter from May through September means the furnace runs for months, so a heater that limps into winter unserviced is a heater that fails on the coldest night of the year. A pre-winter service is the cheapest insurance you can buy. A full service from around $160 covers:

• Cleaning the burner and inspecting the heat exchanger for cracks
• Checking the flue, seals and combustion air supply
• Testing ignition, flame sensing and the safety cut-outs
• Checking the thermostat or controller and the return-air filter
• A negative-pressure carbon monoxide spillage test

Carbon monoxide testing, not optional in older homes.

Carbon monoxide is the real danger with ageing gas heaters. It is colourless, odourless and produced when a heat exchanger cracks or a flue corrodes or blocks. Many of Ballarat’s established homes in Soldiers Hill, Ballarat East and Wendouree still run open-flued heaters of the exact type covered by Victorian safety alerts, and modern draught-proofing plus exhaust fans can draw flue gases back inside. We CO-test every heater we service. If a unit fails, we make it safe or take it out of service, and we are honest with you about why.

No-heat callouts and common faults.

When a ducted heater stops firing in the middle of a Ballarat cold snap, the usual culprits are a failed ignitor or flame sensor, a faulty controller, a tripped overheat cut-out from a clogged return-air filter, or a gas supply problem. We diagnose the fault properly, quote the repair before doing it, and never replace parts you do not need.

Honest repair versus replace.

If your furnace is older than about 12 years, fails a CO test, or needs a repair worth a large slice of a new unit, we will say so. A modern 6-star or 7-star ducted gas heater pays back its efficiency quickly across a long Ballarat heating season, and if you are also thinking about summer, a reverse-cycle replacement can cover both seasons. We give you the numbers and let you choose, with no pressure.