Advice please, cost of used oil boiler burner?

plumfin

Our boiler broke, so I called an engineer who attended within an hour, which was excellent. All fixed 3 days later, but just wanted to check on prices as he is coming back to service it and I need to make sure I haven't been a mug!

All in all, 3 hours labour at £75,nozzle £15 and second hand burner at £130.

Any thoughts? His work seems great, heating on again, but don't want to organise a service if his prices are too inflated. I accept it was an emergency, so expect to pay a slightly higher rate.

Thanks in advance.

Greenfires

3 hours work for £75 sounds more than reasonable for a qualified engineer. If I spent three hours working on a chimney it would be more than that.

Many engineers would have insisted on brand new parts and charged you an arm and a leg. No idea what the going rate for used parts is - but he may have paid slightly over the odds to get the part quickly to get you sorted.

plumfin

Many thanks. He was excellent and I thought the labour was fair. Thanks for response.

Better_Days

Funnily enough I had exactly the same job done last week. My heating engineer also offered me a used burner - he charged me £50 for the burner and £60 for the labour although it didn't take 3 hours. (No VAT btw) A new burner costs at least £250.

Turned out the fire valve needed replacing too and he had to come back and do that along with quite a bit of further work on the system which he had already quoted me for.

As an emergency job I don't think what you were charged was unreasonable (especially as he got there within an hour) although I suppose it is difficult to know how much use the burner has already had, and how much the burner cost when it was new. It's one of those things that you really have to trust the tradesman to be fair with you.

Silent_Dancer

Sounds fair enough.