Landlord's Gas service contracts

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clutton wrote: »

i have seen second hand boilers on ebay

I sold my 7 year old boiler on Ebay two weeks ago and advertised it as ideal for spare parts since you are not allowed to fit them anymore. I paid £160 for a new diverter valve last year (plus £100 labour) so the parts are worth a lot.

If someone decided to fit it then that's their issue (I did provide all the paperwork with it, the benchmakr book and 6 years worth of gas safety certificates)....

clutton_2

socrates says

"I was suggesting a NEW boiler I would never advocate installing a second hand boiler - but I would install a boiler that had surface damage to its casing for a good deal.""

my point about ebay is that you dont know what you are buying - and with regard to a boiler, you wont know till the CORGI gas guy comes along and possibly fails it

socrates

clutton wrote: »

socrates says

"I was suggesting a NEW boiler I would never advocate installing a second hand boiler - but I would install a boiler that had surface damage to its casing for a good deal.""

my point about ebay is that you dont know what you are buying - and with regard to a boiler, you wont know till the CORGI gas guy comes along and possibly fails it

Clutton we have crossed swords many times but in this case you are being a pain.

You contact the guy on ebay - he is corgi registered - you establish this before you start - you establish that the boiler is new - if when he turns up none of this is true then you close the door and tell him to jog on.

The bit where ebay comes into the equation is that a lot of people looking to purchase items will look on ebay so its a good place for a corgi engineer to drum up extra trade and much cheaper than advertising in a local paper.

Is it clear enough for you now or do you want to continue picking holes where they do not exist.

ManicMum

Thanks for that. Will have a look round. Even BG said about £3000-4000 for new combi but not surprised as know they are not the cheapest.

Think will just get the safety check done for now and then look around for boiler offers.

Cheers

Canucklehead

clutton wrote: »

combi boilers are not legal anymore - the regs changed (2004 ?) - so that all new boilers need to be Condensing.

Good evening: A point of clarification...condensing boilers are available as combination, system and regular/open vented appliances.

To the OP: If you don't have a CO alarm in your rental property get one asap.

HTH

Canucklehead

socrates

Canucklehead wrote: »

Good evening: A point of clarification...condensing boilers are available as combination, system and regular/open vented appliances.

To the OP: If you don't have a CO alarm in your rental property get one asap.

HTH

Canucklehead

Thanks for that - I did not want to start her off again by pointing that one out myself