Free boiler for income based benefits only?!

tinkledom

cattermole wrote: »

I know what you mean! We are considering the new high sensitive electric radiators that are available and wonder in the long run, particularly if you have a small bore gas system it might be less maintenance? You have to have the boiler last a long time (and the new ones don't last as long as they did) to make it pay.

They do if you install the premium quality ones instead of the rubbish that this scheme is supporting.


A decent quality boiler should cost in the region of about £2400 fully fitted.
A cheap and nasty version would see you paying about £1600 fully fitted.

cattermole

Anyway Lancashirehotpot and OP

With small bore pipe systems, which regardless of whether you buy a good quality boiler or not, because the pipes are much smaller (mainly installed in houses in the late 80's/early 90's). We are in the process of buying a new house and it has them and an old boiler. Although apart from that the house doesn't need anything doing to it.

The only way to really solve it is to install a whole new system from scratch, which is a lot more expensive and I wonder if it is worth it for the savings on fuel costs? As opposed to these new electric radiators?

http://www.greenvisionradiators.co.uk/products/index.asp?section=haverland-designer-tt-electric-radiators-21

The costs of running are on one of the pages.

It's obviously easier to make the switch if you still have a hot water immersion tank and it's new, well insulated etc.

pstuart

Another photo of a troll on the Daily Mail online site today (I only read it for the weather forecasts).

They all look the same, this one was a cracker though - she was trolling and keyboard abusing herself.

Just imagine our trolls looking like her and having a personality disorder to boot!

Please don't feed them.

A_Flock_Of_Sheep

I really don't know what tinkledom is on about. This scheme is good and I know two people who have used it and they both had decent Vaillant combi boilers fitted which when looked up on the web are quite expensive.

I am sure the boilers they had also came with a 5 year warranty anyway - so they are good for five years at least.

margaretclare

A_Flock_Of_Sheep wrote: »

I really don't know what tinkledom is on about. This scheme is good and I know two people who have used it and they both had decent Vaillant combi boilers fitted which when looked up on the web are quite expensive.

I am sure the boilers they had also came with a 5 year warranty anyway - so they are good for five years at least.

We had this done in January 2006 when the criteria were a bit different. We couldn't have been more pleased with the result. It's a Vaillant combi boiler, we get it checked and serviced every year, and no problems at all. It's much better than having 40 gallons of hot water in the loft unused for most of the time. As there are only the 2 of us, showers every morning, washing maybe twice a week, not much more than that, it was a waste having to keep all that water hot 24/7. The boiler is in the loft, out of the way, not using up space in the kitchen. The loft had been floored earlier, a light fitted, and a loft-ladder. Once it was all tidied up and we got rid of that 40-gallon tank which had been there since the house was built in 1934, we had more insulation fitted and it has all been toasty ever since, as well as being very economical.

As regards tinkledom, he seems to be yet another troll, or a reincarnation of an earlier troll, who wants to argue the toss about every damn thing and has nowt better to do.

margaretclare

tinkledom wrote: »

I certainly wouldn't and more to the point, I would not have let the boiler get into that state that it gave up completely in the first place

So you're a qualified heating engineer as well as everything else, are you?

Morglin

tinkledom wrote: »

The scheme is a load of rubbish.


They fit cheap end boilers, charge a fortune for 'extras' yet bill the government for the cost of supplying and fitting the most expensive boiler that you can buy.

My elderly dad had one fitted, a Vaillant MP, just after the original scheme started.

That make is one of the best around, and hugely popular.

It's serviced once a year and has worked perfectly, and continues to do so.

Why do you keep giving dodgy advice?

Lin :wall:

Morglin

margaretclare wrote: »

So you're a qualified heating engineer as well as everything else, are you?

No end to his talents, and nothing he hasn't been turned down for, or got when he shouldn't have, and no subject had isn't qualified to rant on about.

I am exhausted by his brilliance.....:T

Lin

pstuart

Don't let it feed off you.