British Gas replacing boiler for £4266.51

Ugnaught

Hello, On Wednesday morning I was surprised to find a gas central heating installer engineer/plumber turn up at our house. Dad had arranged for British Gas to come look at getting a new boiler, perhaps because social services mentioned it to him. The quotation says its going to cost £4266.51:eek:

It's not like we're getting new radiators but instead a new header tank with ball !!!! and feeder pipe. I did say to the plumber/heating engineer I thought it was over twice the amount I was expecting. Anyway dad gave a 10% deposit cheque to the engineer.

System performance £1090 (various bits including new header tank with ball !!!! and feeder pipe, thermostat)
Boiler £794
Standard boiler replacement (labour £1173+flue) £1599
Customisation (flue, pipes, condensate, bricks, more labour) and compliance £1086

1090+794+1599+1086=4569

+system reliability =~ £4816
-discount/allowances boiler sale £550
=£4266

Are we getting anything much more than a normal boiler replacement which would cost half this much?:mad:

alanq

My Mum had a boiler replaced by BG a few years ago.

Apart from the boiler there was a new flue, timer, main thermostat, power flush of the system and a bit of electrical work to comply with the latest regulations + "free" radiator thermostats and towel rail. That cost over £3000 after a few hundred pounds grant. I checked the retail prices of the components and reckoned about £1200. There was two days work for the fitter plus a couple of hours work for an electrician and a brickie.

The condensate pipe runs into a washing machine discharge down pipe which was fine except that when drilling through the worktop the sawdust was allowed to fall into the down pipe blocking it and resulting in a flood in the kitchen the first time Mum used the washing machine!

jaybeetoo

Ugnaught wrote: »

Hello, On Wednesday morning I was surprised to find a gas central heating installer engineer/plumber turn up at our house. Dad had arranged for British Gas to come look at getting a new boiler, perhaps because social services mentioned it to him. The quotation says its going to cost £4266.51:eek:

It's not like we're getting new radiators but instead a new header tank with ball !!!! and feeder pipe. I did say to the plumber/heating engineer I thought it was over twice the amount I was expecting. Anyway dad gave a 10% deposit cheque to the engineer.

System performance £1090 (various bits including new header tank with ball !!!! and feeder pipe, thermostat)
Boiler £794
Standard boiler replacement (labour £1173+flue) £1599
Customisation (flue, pipes, condensate, bricks, more labour) and compliance £1086

1090+794+1599+1086=4569

+system reliability =~ £4816
-discount/allowances boiler sale £550
=£4266

Are we getting anything much more than a normal boiler replacement which would cost half this much?:mad:

Not completely the same but I've just had a replacement boiler, new hot water cylinder, new pump and Fernox TF1 compact for £2,100. The boiler came with a 7 year warranty.

gasmanmartin

check the T & C's he can cancel it and get his deposit back.

go somewhere else - get the same stuff for half the price

Ugnaught

The chances are low. He wasn't keen for me to look at the brochure and printed sheets. But I have had a sneaky look. I took some photos of it but just the technical bits not the T&Cs and customer number.

Is there a way for BG to lower their price?

He's 80 years old BTW.

closed

is there anything wrong with the existing one?

Ugnaught

We had 3 plumbers a couple of years ago try and fix the old one. We've used electric heaters since since then.

Ugnaught

They're comming on Monday for two days work. The quotation man spent 90 minutes here. They were going to dump the boiler etc here on Friday till I asked why.,,,,

I can see we need 3m of pipe for the feeder pipe for the header tank, but the other 2x3m doesn't seem necessary. Maybe I can find the number to ring them. I've only one working day left. We already have a flue hole so why need bricks?:question:
Our old electric immersion hot water tank doesn't have one of those big red thick jackets other people have. Will it still be without one?

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Atidi

Ugnaught wrote: »

Are we getting anything much more than a normal boiler replacement which would cost half this much?:mad:

Ugnaught wrote: »

They're comming on Monday for two days work. The quotation man spent 90 minutes here. They were going to dump the boiler etc here on Friday till I asked why.,,,,

I can see we need 3m of pipe for the feeder pipe for the header tank, but the other 2x3m doesn't seem necessary. Maybe I can find the number to ring them. I've only one working day left. We already have a flue hole so why need bricks?:question:
Our old electric immersion hot water tank doesn't have one of those big red thick jackets other people have. Will it still be without one?

Apparently so.

You appear to be getting £500 of extra pipework, £1000 work of new controls, new water tank and new pump, and £200 of building work (includes bricks)

If it was just a boiler replacement, they could probably do that in half a day.

macman

BG will typically charge 40% more than an independent local GSR RGI.