Boiler breakdown

bris

gardner1 wrote: »

£45 a service up in my neck of the woods

worried_jim wrote: »

£50 for me, although did have new boiler fitted last year.

That's more a visual inspection and safety check. A proper service is a strip down, no engineer will do that for £50.


A proper service requires getting into the combustion chamber, cleaning it down and replacing seals etc.


Modern boilers (condensing) need the seals done every 4 years at least. If the main burned seal isn't changed in around that time it becomes brittle, fails and the heat causes the metal to warp, the emissions go through the roof and that's a big repair bill.

gardner1

bris wrote: »

That's more a visual inspection and safety check. A proper service is a strip down, no engineer will do that for £50.


A proper service requires getting into the combustion chamber, cleaning it down and replacing seals etc.


Modern boilers (condensing) need the seals done every 4 years at least. If the main burned seal isn't changed in around that time it becomes brittle, fails and the heat causes the metal to warp, the emissions go through the roof and that's a big repair bill.

well as most people have a "service done on boiler" costing between £50-£70 i guess most people have a visual inspection and not a service