AA Boiler cover not honoured

southcoastrgi

C_Mababejive wrote: »

They only cover boilers upto 15 years old ? Hahahahahaaaa...what a joke.

the avg life of a modern boiler is 10-15 yrs, i haven't read the t&c's for the AA but if it is indeed 15 yrs i think this is very generious, with the Corgi homeplan the boiler can't be older than 7 yrs when you take out the cover

poet. corgi don't cover back boilers either

C_Mababejive

#12 Thats all part of the biggest con worked on the British public.

They get told that they need to save money on gas and that the way to do it is to get a nice new "efficient" boiler. They spend thousands to do that then spend hundreds in maintenance and then repeat the process in 15 years !

I keep saying this but the total spend on my lovely glow worm spacesaver over the past 33 years has been a couple of thermocouples and a recent control upgrade pack which cost about £70 from screwfix (prog/rs/cs/3way valve)

Surely the time when a boiler has had it is when the part is not avail from the manufs.

In the days of the mighty British Gas Corporation, manufs had contractual agreements to supply most and all essential parts for a lengthy period of time.

The whole condensing combi boiler malarky is a total con but its good business

southcoastrgi

alot of the time it's not that you can't get the bits (they should be available from the manu for 10 yrs from end of production), it's down to the cost of the bits, prices could be £200 for a pcb, £400+ for a heat exchanger, £200 for a fan etc etc, by the time you get parts then pay someone to fit them sometimes it's not cost effective to do & the customer is better off with a new boiler.

the boiler does alot of work, in a cold winter it could nearly be on non stop & even in the summer maybe 4 hrs a day, work out how many hrs a year the boiler is working then times it by 10 yrs i think you will be surprised, then take a £50 kettle & how often you replace it & how many hrs it is in operation for & i think you will find if you did a comparision the kettle will cost you more to replace for the same operational hrs than a boiler will

Cardew

southcoastrgi wrote: »

then take a £50 kettle & how often you replace it & how many hrs it is in operation for & i think you will find if you did a comparision the kettle will cost you more to replace for the same operational hrs than a boiler will

Not so! My parents pre-war kettle is still in use - mind you it is not an electric kettle;)

I do take your point, but the beauty of old non-condensing boilers is they don't have pcbs to go wrong.

My boiler is 25 years old and like the post above has only had a couple of thermocouples since new.

There is also nothing in the servicing schedule to adjust - other than size of pilot flame. The full manufacturers service schedule consists of visual checks and cleaning.

southcoastrgi

& that's the reason any RGI worth his salt will try & keep an "old" boiler going as long as possible

ollski

southcoastrgi wrote: »

not always, most of these companies put it in their t&c's about the age of the boiler & is down to the householder to read them.

it will def not be down to the engineer to say if payments are to be refunded that is down to the head office & he had no right to say they would

The boiler is either suitable for cover or it isn't. If premiums have been taken for a boiler which cannot receive the promised service they must be refunded.
Guess the engineer raised the job as an initial check, failed it and therefore knows the premiums will be refunded.

ihateyes

I presume Southcoastrgi works for corgi????

Corgi have a lot of get outs in many contracts....
And they have misled the general public in a big big way.

its all about preferences.....

ie i would only use a company that supplies their own engineers. but thats me