Are new radiators needed when changing to a combi/system boiler?

southcoastrgi

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

Probably because you being paid to do the job and not help yourself to what you fancy! Any decent tradesman wouldn't do that. My parents had a central heating system fitted by a man and he left the large copper water tank in the garden. He could of easily got it into his truck if he was like that.

A pile of copper pipe is going to be worth far more than £2. There is a reason why people steal cable and metals and it's not because it costs them more in fuel to transport it.

customers like you really get on my wick, what is this slag off the plumbers forum, we come on here to help people at no cost what so ever to you & all you do is moan, if you read my posts & not make up your own interpretations you would see that i took the water heater as part of good customer service, yes a pile of copper is worth more than £2, myself & alot of others on here are decent tradesmen/women & try to do the best we can we don't take anything we fancy, do you go to get new tyres on your car & when they balance them they remove the lead weights do you ask for them back as you have already paid for them no of course not, if you have a stud wall removed do you ask for the old timbers back no of course not you are just glad to be rid of them because they aren't worth anything, every plumber i know takes the scrap copper it's not just thieves like you try to make out, yes it is your old copper & if you want to keep it then that's fine as well just don't expect your plumber to rip it out for you, you take up the floors, you cut it out, you drain the water out of it, scrap copper has & always will be a perk of the job, we supply a boiler, rads & various other bits which you pay for & own but you still expect us to get rid of the packagin, you can't have it allways but you seem to want to.

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My MIL got about £50 for the scrap left over from a boiler installation including several radiators which pinholed after being powerflushed. My newest radiator looks like it would be the one to fail if I had a new boiler installed, but looking at the standard of the pipework in my house I wouldn't like to put any of it to the test with a pressurised system so I'm leaving well alone.