CORGI offering maintenance plan? Anybody else use this?

Money_Meiser

Please show eveidence of my wrong doing?..... all i said was: they still seem to exist to me, after being told to go and check it out, by you Jack Spratt! 'I believe the Gorgi name was bought as biggles has said so if I was you I would look into it very carefully "

Anyway... have made phone calls this morning, as suggested (thanks to all those who have been very helpfull)... and wont deliver my verdict here for fear of reprisal.

Paul_Varjak

As someone who has posted about many scams on MSE since 2004, I convinced myself for about two hours that CORGI HomeCare is a scam. Luckily, I did a little bit more 'delving' and I am now certain that it is not!

I won't provide the doubters with any more 'ammunition' as to why I was considering the service to be a scam, but I have no doubt now that it is entirely genuine.

The only thing than needs to concern me now, is it worth taking up the scheme?

£16.99/month (guaranteed for 7 years) to cover boiler/electrics/plumbing; free boiler replacement/powerflush (up to 12 years old) Yearly service.

Sounds like a bargain, but there is really no history about the quality of service offered.

grimsalve

energy99 wrote: »

is was but looks like there still going..

http://www.corgi-homecare.co.uk/

IMO - dodgy!

CORGI was replaced by the Gas Safe Register in 2009 so the company that has created that website (Green Installer Ltd?) is using the CORGI name to hopefully get more sales.

Paul_Varjak

grimsalve wrote: »

IMO - dodgy!

CORGI was replaced by the Gas Safe Register in 2009 so the company that has created that website (Green Installer Ltd?) is using the CORGI name to hopefully get more sales.

CORGI is a company. Gas Safe Register is a company. The two are mutually independent. The Gas Safe Register merely took over the register from CORGI. CORGI still exists in its own right and is allowed to use the data it gathered from CORGI registered installers (prior to April 2009) to launch its own services.

I have fully checked this out with Trading Standards!

no1catman

Are there any latest developments here? As I too had a mailing from Corgi Homecare (a few days ago) - I installed a Ferroli condenser boiler about four years ago.
The 'Cover' does seem comprehensive, and cheaper than most large national companies offerings - though at least NPower give 50% back if unused.

Paul_Varjak

no1catman wrote: »

Are there any latest developments here? As I too had a mailing from Corgi Homecare (a few days ago) - I installed a Ferroli condenser boiler about four years ago.
The 'Cover' does seem comprehensive, and cheaper than most large national companies offerings - though at least NPower give 50% back if unused.

CORGI will only cover the boiler is less than three years old at the time you start the plan.

monmaison2009

I have been following this thread with interest. I am a British Gas HomeCare customer for the last 7 years, BG is more expensive, I must say I don not have any complains and their list of exclusion seems to be much smaller than CorgiHomeCare. However I cant say if BG would have given me hassle for replacing my boiler as that has not happened.
I was considering changing though, does any one have any more information on customer care or how long they have been trading? Does anyone know if their gas engineers are Gas Safe?

Many thanks

Paul_Varjak

monmaison2009...

CORGI has been in existence for many years; it used to be the approval body for gas engineers prior to Gas Safe taking over that role.

The engineers CORGI use, will be Gas Safe registered - they have to be, by law.

kezlou

I also recieved one of these letters too. My partner, wo is a registered "gas safe" heating engineer. he checked it out, contacted a few people and decided it was a con. gas engineers hAVE to be gas safe registered, Corgi is now defunct and anyone who turns up at your door and claims to be corgi gas registered is breaking the law. The engineer has to be registered gas safe if they are not report them as they are breaking the law. some of the clauses make the contract invalid, so be careful, its very much like british gas. So read the t & c's very carefully. corgi does exist but its an individual rather than the official body of gas engineers.

kezlou

you can check on here:
http://www.gassaferegister.co.uk/