Help ! No hot water or heating and 12 week old babies in the house

phill99

I think your engineers are wrong.

A new boiler is in excess of £2k to supply and install. You could change all the major components on a boiler including heat exchangers, pump, pcb etc and still have money left.

The problem with many heating engineers (not all I hasten to add - there are some good ones offering advice on here) is that diagnostic skills are very poor. Many are taught only the very basics of diagnostics at college and many don't do any at all in the field. The best guys are those that have been apprenticed with one of the manufacturers on the service teams. Allied to this is the fact that an installation will typically get the installer £800 or more for 2 days work. He would struggle to make this by just doing servicing and repairs. Therefore many engineers just want to do installs and upgrades as it is far more lucrative.

As others have said, get Glowworm out - they at least will give you unbiased advice.

baldelectrician

I have a Glowworm boiler and the fan went.
My mate is a gas engineer and and got it no problem- < £80.00 all in

savemoney

Even cavemen had heating ie open fire. If house has chimney or no chimney the only other colution is getting cheap oil radiator, fan heaters or convector heaters for now

jc808 wrote: »

Buy an electric heater?
Boil a kettle for hot water?

How are 12 week old babies relevant?

How did the human race survive the million odd years before the invention of boilers?

LandyAndy

mirrorimage0 wrote: »

sign up to british gas homecare plan, then give them a ring to say boiler has broken, i know its not ideal and you shouldnt but if your desperate

iamcornholio wrote: »

I'd go along with joining the British Gas scheme - it will cover for repairs or replacement if the boiler is beyond repair and less than 7 years old

Join it, and wait a week or two though, then say you've just switched the boiler on and it does not work

But do check the scheme small print though to make sure that you don't have to wait a set time before calling them out

Obviously you may need a little fib if it comes to saying that it was working when you joined the scheme, but hey-ho, you're desperate and lots of people do it

Don't listen to this nonsense. When you sign up to these schemes (I am with Southern) the first thing they do is carry out an inspection and tell you what needs to be done before they will cover you. They will spot the broken boiler and refuse cover on it.

ormus

as above.
afaik,
they do a visit and a service check.
they certainly will not cover a broken boiler. you will have to pay for that first.

its an insurance scheme any future events, not a replacement for lack of maintenance over the last 5 or 10 yrs.

jc808

savemoney wrote: »

Even cavemen had heating ie open fire.

did they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans

giraffe69

How are 12 week old babies relevant?

How did the human race survive the million odd years before the invention of boilers?

Perhaps babies are more vulnerable to cold. Perhaps life expectancy was rather lower in most of the million years (slight exaggeration) that preceded this year. Perhaps your comment is not all that helpful to someone who is experiencing quite a bad problem and would like a little help.

Norman_Castle

You have started two threads with the same question https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/48352267#Comment_48352267

What the hell do we do ?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.....

Responding to this may help

What has actually gone wrong with it?

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Just out of interest OP - You own your own home yes? Well then you should have home insurance and should claim off that.

markdavey

How would home insurance pay for a new boiler???