Boiler not heating, radiators cold, or pressure dropping on the gauge? We provide 24/7 boiler repair Scarborough homeowners rely on, plus annual boiler service, hydronic heating repair, and boiler replacement — including combi boiler installation that heats the house and the hot water from one wall-hung unit. TSSA-licensed, upfront-priced.
Boilers are the minority heating system in Scarborough, which is exactly why they're hard to get serviced well. Most HVAC companies see a few a year. We see them every week — cast-iron boilers feeding original radiators in Birch Cliff and Cliffside century homes, hydronic baseboards in 1960s Agincourt bungalows, and modern wall-hung combi boilers running in-floor heat in Scarborough Village and Guildwood renovations. ASAP Scarborough Plumbing Services provides boiler repair Scarborough wide, annual boiler service, hydronic heating repair, and boiler replacement and combi boiler installation.
One thing to be clear about before anything else: in Ontario, nobody may work on a gas boiler without a TSSA gas technician certificate — G2 for residential, G1 for larger commercial systems. Every gas boiler we touch is handled by a TSSA-certified G2 or G1 technician, and we'll show you the card. If a quote doesn't come with that licence, walk away; the risk is carbon monoxide, not just a cold house. Not sure whether you have a boiler or a hot water tank? A boiler heats the house; a water heater only heats the taps — unless it's a combi, which does both.
Boiler not heating? Call (437) 475-2458 — a no-heat call in winter is dispatched 24/7 as an emergency, usually at your door within the hour.
At −15°C a house with a dead boiler starts freezing pipes in a matter of hours. We treat a boiler not heating as an emergency, day or night. While you wait, do these — in order:
Check your CO detector first. If it's alarming, or you have headaches, dizziness, or nausea, get everyone out and call 911 from outside. A boiler fault can mean a venting fault. If the detector is silent, carry on.
Check the thermostat, the breaker, and the gas valve. Thermostat on heat and calling; boiler breaker or switch on; gas shut-off handle in line with the pipe. Reset the breaker once if it's tripped — if it trips again, leave it.
Look at the pressure gauge and the display. Below about 12 psi cold, the boiler will lock out — note it, don't top it up yourself. Note any error code on the screen; it tells us what to bring.
Protect the pipes while you wait. Open cabinet doors on exterior walls, let a tap drip, and keep interior doors open. If any pipe has already frozen, see our frozen pipe repair page and mention it when you call.
A boiler is the heart of a closed loop — pump, expansion tank, zone valves, radiators or floor loops, and the controls that tie them together. When one piece fails the whole house feels it. These are the hydronic heating repair calls we get most:
Boiler Not Heating / Lockout Codes: Ignition failure, a dirty flame sensor, a failed gas valve, or a low-pressure lockout. Diagnosed and usually repaired on the first visit by a TSSA-certified technician.
Some Rooms Cold, Others Fine: A stuck zone valve, a failed circulator pump, air trapped in a radiator or floor loop, or a balancing problem on the manifold. We bleed, balance, and replace what's seized.
Pressure Keeps Dropping: A leak somewhere in the loop, a waterlogged expansion tank, or a relief valve that's weeping. Topping up every week is a symptom, not a fix.
Banging, Kettling, or Gurgling: Scale on the heat exchanger from Toronto's moderately hard water, or air in the system. Kettling left alone cracks exchangers.
Condensate Drain Blocked or Frozen: Condensing boilers shut down when the condensate line clogs or freezes outside. We clear and re-route it — and if the drain it feeds is the problem, our drain cleaning team handles that on the same visit.
Most boiler emergencies in January were avoidable in October. A yearly boiler service is the cheapest line on this page and the one that keeps a 15-year boiler running to 25:
Book it in September or October, before the first cold week fills the schedule.
Whether it's a no-heat call in Agincourt at 6 a.m. or a boiler that keeps locking out in a Birch Cliff semi, every boiler repair in Scarborough follows the same five steps:
Searching boiler repair near me? Call (437) 475-2458
When a boiler is past about 20 years, kettling, or has a cracked exchanger, replacement is the smarter spend — and it's the moment to choose the right type. For most Scarborough homes that now means a combi.
Combi Boiler Installation
One wall-hung condensing unit heats the house and makes domestic hot water on demand — no storage tank, no rental fee, and a footprint the size of a kitchen cabinet. Modulating burners run at 90%+ efficiency and pair well with radiant floors and low-temperature radiators. Our most common combi boiler installation Scarborough job is replacing an old boiler and a rental hot water tank with one unit.
Conventional / System Boiler with Indirect Tank
A dedicated heating boiler feeding radiators plus an indirect storage tank for hot water. The right choice for large homes with several bathrooms running at once, or where a combi's flow rate won't keep up. More equipment, more space, but unmatched hot water capacity.
We size the boiler to a heat-loss calculation of your home, not the label on the old one, check gas line capacity and venting, and give you both prices so the decision is yours.
A growing share of our boiler work in Scarborough isn't old radiators — it's radiant floor heat in renovated basements, bathrooms, and garages, and the whole-home hydronic systems in newer custom builds. We design, install, and repair the full loop, not just the boiler on the wall.
A boiler in a basement is only as safe as the basement is dry. If yours has flooded before, ask about a sump pump on the same visit.
Boilers last longer than furnaces — a well-serviced cast-iron unit can run 25–30 years. So we repair first, and tell you plainly when it stops making sense.
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2026-01-09
Victor A.
"Boiler locked out at −20 in our Birch Cliff century home, radiators stone cold. Searched boiler repair near me, ASAP was here in under an hour. Checked CO first, found a dead igniter, heat back before the pipes froze."
2026-02-02
Josh T.
"Replaced a 28-year-old boiler and a rental tank in our Wexford house with one combi unit. Technician showed his TSSA card before touching the gas. Lower bills, more basement, no rental fee."
2026-02-25
Noah B.
"Two upstairs rooms in our Agincourt bungalow never got warm. Previous guy just bled the rads. ASAP found a seized zone valve and air in the loop, fixed both. Whole house even now."
2026-03-18
Tom K.
"Finished our Guildwood basement with in-floor heat. They ran the PEX loops, manifold, and tied it into the existing boiler with a mixing valve. Floors are warm, upstairs rads unaffected. Clean work."
2026-04-21
Leo R.
"Boiler pressure kept dropping every few days in Cliffside. ASAP found a waterlogged expansion tank, not a leak — a fraction of what I feared. Explained the gauge so I know what to watch."
2026-06-11
Sofia M.
"Our combi in Malvern kept shutting down with an error code. Turned out to be a blocked condensate drain. Cleared, re-routed so it won't freeze, and done in an hour."
2026-09-23
Anthony D.
"Looked up boiler service near me before winter for our Scarborough Village home. Combustion test, cleaned the burner, bled the rads, left a written report. First year with no January surprise."
2026-10-14
Amir H.
"Old boiler in L'Amoreaux was kettling badly. They told me honestly the exchanger was scaled past saving and gave a repair price next to a combi price. Went with the combi. No pressure, no regrets."