MERGED: Boilers - New / Repairs

Tom_Jones

neily wrote:

I've been quoted £2,200 + VAT to take a 20 year old boiler & hot water tank from the kitchen and install new 100k BTU Worcester Bosch combi in the loft, and to move a few hot hot water pipes. This sounds alot to me but I've nothing to compare it with? (I live near london)

So the final total is around £2600, which is a lot of money but you do live near London and I'm afraid prices are much higher in that area, saying that moving it from the kitchen into the attic is a more difficult job.

Not sure on the boiler quoted, but you could always ask for a cheaper model.

billrixon

with the high cost of boilers,are electric oil filled radiators and immersion heater,worth
considering.if you consider serviceing. I have one bedroom bungalow.and need a new gas boiler.

Cardew

billrixon wrote:

with the high cost of boilers,are electric oil filled radiators and immersion heater,worth
considering.if you consider serviceing. I have one bedroom bungalow.and need a new gas boiler.

Not oil filled radiators or an immersion heater if used on 'normal' electricity rates.

There is an argument for have night storage heaters and using Economy 7 electricity.(and of coursean immersion heater and other appliances on E7 rates)

There is a thread on the advantages and disadvantages of Storage heaters and the balance of opinion is that they are not very good.

You really need to work out all the costs and see if the saving of the servicing charges is sufficient to make the change viable.

If you do change from Gas CH to Electric Night Storage you will find the latter system far less convienient in everyday use.

raeble

Has anyone heard of Ideal boilers? My mother phoned up about a warmfront or stay warm government funded grant and they came round a few weeks back, she tried to get some information about the boiler etc but received nothing in writing. Now they phoned on Friday and they are going to be fitting some sort of Ideal boiler on Monday. She told them that she wasn't sure it was going to be convient. I've told her to tell them to No because they seem to be far too keen on putting this particular boiler in. They won't give her the money and let her put in a Glow Warm for instance which is what she has got at the moment. Her boiler is coming to the end of its life (at least twenty five years old) but that is no reason for her to change her boiler for something she's never heard of and something that I've seen people reporting problems about after a few years.

When I got the council to give me some quotes from some recommended suppliers I only got one and it was for an Ideal boiler. Needless to say I still haven't replaced my boiler. My grandmother got a biasi several years back and had nothing but problems with that so I personally prefer to go for something that I've heard of and has a good reputation.

caveat_emptor

raeble wrote:

Has anyone heard of Ideal boilers?

Yes, Ideal are one of the big boiler manufacturers in the UK. Go to https://www.idealboilers.com. Understand there is a recent Which Report on central heating/boilers. Worth taking a look.
Cav

raeble

Thanks for that.

Well she had the boiler put in. Now she's not happy with the workmanship. They put the boiler upstairs in the airing cupboard because hers was in the kitchen facing the neighbour. They ran the gas pipe upstairs, electrics both of which are in front of the bath, instead of under the floorboards. The electric cable isn't tacked down. The gas pipe is. They have also run the waste pipe from the boiler in front of the bath and joined it up with the bath waste. There is no way she can easily remove the bath for any reason the way they have done that. They even told her that the floorboards would have to come up for the piping. She's waiting for the inspector to come out, they only agreed after she threatened to go to her MP. There is still things that they were supposed to have done like give her a new tank jacket that they haven't done but you can bet they've submitted a claim for it. Nothing free is ever without problems.