Advice needed for Combi boiler replacement

lamplighter2

just had a remeha 28 boiler installed with five year garentee had a worcester before though 15years old new boiler is brill turn hot tap on in bath full on hot water all the time bath filled in no time boiler is silent and have a radio stat that switches boiler on at 5am and off at 9am and then again at 4pm and off 10pmbungalow is loverly and warm. have not had a boiler since summer and it has been cold so nice to be warm again.
engineer who did our boiler came as a recomendation and did a fantastic job work neat and clean all the bits required for a combi and done in a day.

sttudy

hi i am getting really conflicting advice/quotes about changing my combi boiler. one engineer says they will only fit boilers they have supplied, another says by law i have to have a power flush magnaclean and scale inhibitor. i am being quoted about £2,300 just for staight swop same position. can anyone help? thanks :think:

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letitias

Hi everyone I tried to put a new post but not very good at this site....so used a reply to enable me to put this out....sorry if that is wrong.

I need to get a gas combi boiler fitted like now and so i contacted 'British Gas' as they are who we pay for our utility bills.

They called the house phone after asking them to call my mobile and spoke to my disabled husband as I wasn't there.

The engineer told my husband that the quote would be between £2200 and £2500 but he would not be able to come to the house unless we were agreeing to have the work done.

Firstly is this really how gas companies work ?
Secondly is this an acceptable quote ?
How can they quote when they haven't seen the work ?

please help as we really need this work done soon it worries me how I am going to pay for this but the heating is necessary

heating-eng

letitias wrote: »

Hi everyone I tried to put a new post but not very good at this site....so used a reply to enable me to put this out....sorry if that is wrong.

I need to get a gas combi boiler fitted like now and so i contacted 'British Gas' as they are who we pay for our utility bills.

They called the house phone after asking them to call my mobile and spoke to my disabled husband as I wasn't there.

The engineer told my husband that the quote would be between £2200 and £2500 but he would not be able to come to the house unless we were agreeing to have the work done.

Firstly is this really how gas companies work ?
Secondly is this an acceptable quote ?
How can they quote when they haven't seen the work ?

please help as we really need this work done soon it worries me how I am going to pay for this but the heating is necessary

This is not a quote, it's an idea of price. Company's do this when they Are trying not to waste time going to loads of quotes.
If you told them you were happy with price ,he would then give you a quote.
I would phone BG up and complain, then get a local guy to install the job for you.

Canucklehead

letitias wrote: »

Hi everyone I tried to put a new post but not very good at this site....so used a reply to enable me to put this out....sorry if that is wrong.

I need to get a gas combi boiler fitted like now and so i contacted 'British Gas' as they are who we pay for our utility bills.

They called the house phone after asking them to call my mobile and spoke to my disabled husband as I wasn't there.

The engineer told my husband that the quote would be between £2200 and £2500 but he would not be able to come to the house unless we were agreeing to have the work done.

Firstly is this really how gas companies work ?
Secondly is this an acceptable quote ?
How can they quote when they haven't seen the work ?

please help as we really need this work done soon it worries me how I am going to pay for this but the heating is necessary

Very odd behaviour...are you sure it wasn't a BG engineer trying to do a 'homer' i.e. snatching work from BG whilst an employee (a sackable offence from what I've learned from BG engineers on another forum).

Any RGI worth his/her salt wouldn't give a price without seeing the job.

HTH

Canucklehead

letitias

thanks guys

have written an email to BG they say will get back to me in 48 hours so should hear what they have to say today.

anyone advise me of someone who could do the job in south east surrey area. (would be very grateful)

heating-eng

Canucklehead wrote: »

Very odd behaviour...are you sure it wasn't a BG engineer trying to do a 'homer' i.e. snatching work from BG whilst an employee (a sackable offence from what I've learned from BG engineers on another forum).

Any RGI worth his/her salt wouldn't give a price without seeing the job.

HTH

Canucklehead

I was a sales advisers, this goes on all the time, the lads don't have a lot of time and try and ween out people that are not going to buy.

BigFlex

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