Cost of Heating Repairs

wishface

Hi, just as the snow hits our heating breaks down. The upshot is that the only prescribed method of fixing it will cost £600! Is there any help available for people who don't have £600 and don't want the inconvenience of sitting in a freezing house with no hot water because this seems like extortion to me.

Pssst

Description of problem with make and model please ???

wishface

I dont know the model offhand the problem seems to be a build up of crud/sludge (whatever the technical term is) in the pipes or something. This requries some kind of 'power clean' which apparently costs £591. Seems very steep to me given that we have no choice but to pay to get it done. We aren't heating engineers ourselves of course.

wishface

Tbh I don't know. I thought all this was meant to be done by the gas people who fitted it.

Antispam

I wouldn't have thought it would costs that much. I have had it done twice to two systems and it only takes a couple of hours work flushing the system

You cant get grants for this unfortunately even if you are on a low income not with warmfront (eaga)

Browntoa

personally I'd drain the system down myself and flush out all the rads after removing them, then refill with a flushing agent added and run for a few weeks.Take a few hours of my time but would only cost the £15 for the system flushing additive

wishface

Browntoa wrote: »

personally I'd drain the system down myself and flush out all the rads after removing them, then refill with a flushing agent added and run for a few weeks.Take a few hours of my time but would only cost the £15 for the system flushing additive

I wouldn't know how to do that myself. Where can I learn to do that?

stef240377

My dad had trouble with his heating before the winter really took effect. He does not pay anything monthly/annually towards the upkeep of it and before all the new regualtions came in would happily do the work himself, however the system went down and dad replaced what he could do legally to no avail. He had a flyer come through the same day from Homeserve who quoted they charge a price fix all deal. He rang to enquire about it and was told it would cost him £150 in total but this would cover anything and everything to get system up and running even if it meant replacing the whole lot which could have cost in excess of a thousand quid.

The part causing the problem was identified and replaced within 3 days as part had to be sent for. The cost of repair should have been just over £450 so from his perspective was well worth it.

wishface

Do you mean these people?

because that's not good feedback.