TRV on old radiators?

sancho

I thought 8k sounded a bit steep, I'm in the wrong profession!!

ormus

EliteHeat wrote: »

I don't want to burst your bubble or detract from what you've done, but I reckon that's 3-4 days work and I would have been rather surprised, but delighted, to be paid £12,800 plus parts.

P.S. I would have marked up the parts a bit, so lets call it £16K.

well give us a budget price then. based on the OPs info.

never_enough

Sorry to hijack a little, but when you recommend all new rads do you mean all new pipe work too? How long should pipes last? Mine are all under wooden floors or very unsightly & along skirting & up & down walls downstairs as it's solid floors all through. I'm getting to the stage of doing some proper work on this house. Although I hadn't thought of replacing pipes I had sort of factored in new rads, have had to replace a couple this year already because of leaks, one minor & one major. I'm keen not to go through that again. My rads are also all huge & expensive to replace (?because they're imperial measurements? :rolleyes:) [also all painted diff colours blue/green/red/gold! :eek:] Boiler is still going despite me planning to replace it a couple of years ago, does it make sense to replace rads & not boiler? Thanks.

EliteHeat

ormus wrote: »

well give us a budget price then. based on the OPs info.

The OP did not ask for this information. So why you want it is beyond me.

angelavdavis

EliteHeat wrote: »

I don't want to burst your bubble or detract from what you've done, but I reckon that's 3-4 days work and I would have been rather surprised, but delighted, to be paid £12,800 plus parts.

P.S. I would have marked up the parts a bit, so lets call it £16K.

Not around here it isn't. The last (as was then) Corgi comedian that came to our house took four days to replace a boiler and connect up two small radiators. Leaving me with a pretty bad leak in one of these new radiators that ruined a newly decorated ceiling on the first floor - all for the privilege of a £4k bill and his avoidance of giving me his PLI details to claim against.

He also managed to create a gas leak in our meter box, having changed the pipework which wasn't discovered for months - even after I called the Corgi rep in to examine why I was getting bills through the roof despite replacing a 40 year old boiler.

I eventually discovered it myself during my weekly gas meter readings.

There are only 6 qualified plumbers in our town, one won't touch boilers he personally didn't install and overall, they cash in and charge rip off prices as a result.

Sadly, with experiences like this, can you blame people for doing stuff themselves? Personally, other than the annual boiler service I pay a local company for, I won't have them touch anything else in the house.