Electric boiler / central heating insurance

ericthekidstoner

Hi all,

I just discovered that Homeserve and Home Energy Services don't provide any insurance for electric boilers.

Are there any companies who do?

tia

Ben84

I'm surprised they don't, because electric boilers appear to have a fair bit less to go wrong than gas ones.

Personally however, I don't insure the boiler. If something goes wrong, I'd rather just call a local company to fix it. Insurance policies don't seem to make things any faster, in fact you might find they're busy and you have to wait for them. Being able to phone around to find someone who can come sooner is a bonus to not being committed to using just one company. Perhaps my feelings are a bit affected by past bad service, but I wouldn't assume insurance policies mean better service or response times. I found they were worse actually. Long waiting times for anyone to come, and missed appointments without even calling to tell me they couldn't make it. The repairmen were absolutely fine, but the central organising was not. When you just call someone to do the work yourself, they're usually more organised and they know if they're flaky you're not going to sit around until they turn up. As far as the promised peace of mind with insurance goes, I realised in the end I prefer having options.