Help with free boilers

driscollc81

Hi all. I do hope I am posting this in the right place. (NEWBIE)

Right ok so I am currently unemployed as my contract was never extended after new year so I have been looking for a job since then. Due to not earning much anymore I have been looking at our bills and seen we spend £50:eek: a week on gas and £20:eek: a week on elec. ( I've got kids glued to ipads 24/7) After seeing this amount going out a week I was shocked. We live in a housing association house and seen we can't get a free boiler change. So spoke to our housing officer and they sent someone out to look. We were told the back boiler gas fire from the 1960s was well old and we needed new everything. Was told it would be a major job to undertake but should be done in a week. Ok so all good. As the date got closer they called us and told my wife that they will not be doing it. Felt let down now. last week I have seen my neighbour and a friend on the same road have there heating and a new boiler installed. Feeling cheesed off. So I have tried talking to housing but they really don't like talking to me as I don't take no for an answer and will stay on the phone for hours which yeah prob annoys them but needs must and all. So I can't get a gov grant as I live in a housing association house and they won't talk or budge.

Who can I turn too or can I lie on a gov grant?? (Prob not a good one)

Cheers

Robin9

Your spend is quite typical but there may well be scope to reduce it without changing the boiler.

Enter your actual kwh usage for the last 12 months into a comparison site and see what comes up.

matelodave

You could sell the Ipads and put the proceeds towards your energy bills.

I find it really hard to reconcile a need for a free boiler when someone happily proclaims that they've got Ipads, Iphones and all the rest. Prorities seem a bit skewed

Summat wrong there methinks

stirling-gorilla

I fully get where the OP is coming from here, the HA should be looking at replacing the system with a modern one, isn't there some sort of funding pot they can access or is that only up here in Scotland? I know our local authority and housing associations have been doing phased replacements and from what I remember most of the money is coming from a government funding scheme.