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I'd really appreciate an answer to these two questions if you have time: - To meet the regulations should I get a qualified engineer in every year to check the system? - Currently, do you think my system could pose a safety risk? Thanks.

It seems odd that British Gas don't have a service for unvented systems. So it would seem that to meet the regulations I should get a qualified engineer in every year to check the system? I can live with low pressure for a while but do you think my system could pose a safety risk?

Yes, I think it's a £99 charge. Looking through the BG Checklists the 2010 one says "Remade bubble in cylinder" which presumably would be after checking the unvented cylinder. None of the others seem to have any relevant comments. I know this is an impossible question, but how likely do you...

The problem is that my Homecare 100 cover has a call-out charge so if it's not urgent I could leave it until November.

British Gas say that it is part of the annual service to check the unvented system but whether this was done last November I don't know. Rather than wait for my next service would you recommend that I look for a specialist heating engineer to check it out?

The "contract" is rather short and only seems to cover the boiler and controls. I'll ring them now and ask if it covers an unvented system. Thanks.

Thanks. We have an annual service as part of a British Gas Boiler cover (Homecare 100), would this meet the regulatory requirement? The service engineer always looks in the airing cupboard (which is where the tank is) but I'm not sure how much they understand about unvented systems. Would it...

Recently the water pressure in our 3-storey house has become much lower than it was. This seems to have been happening over the last year to 18 months. Our water supplier has been to investigate and measured the mains at 3 bar and the pressure at an outside tap at 2.5 bar. Apparently this is...