Cheapest Boiler Cover Discussion

jillyjacks

I am looking for cover for my 3 year old combi boiler homeserve are currently offering boiler cover for less than £7 a month...as a new customer would anyone recomend this ??

jillyjacks

anyone got any thoughts on this please??

grainged

Homeserve's had a Winter sale on for a while now, but the leading offers have just improved. The cheapest boiler cover is now less than £6 a month, but the top-end product that covers pretty much everything (boiler, central heating, plumbing, etc) is now less than half price, only £8.99 per month. Add £45 cashback that you can get through the likes of TopCashBack and Quidco and you'll agree this is a seriously good deal.

mcculloch29

I have a Homecare agreement with British Gas, including plumbing and electrics cover. When they were called out to a boiler less than 2 years old, it took three or four visits before they found what the fault was. I put this down to a glitch. Since then, there have been no more breakdowns.
I took the agreement out in August and booked the annual service for August, as it's a quiet time of year.
In the intervening four years the annual service has slipped back. A service for November was cancelled with less than 24 hours notice, and then a service for December 6th was cancelled with less than 24 hours notice.
The earliest they can give me a service is now January 17th.
I work from home on the days the service was booked for - just as well! I would have hated to have lost wages over this.
You don't have to be a genius to realise than in a few years I will have paid for say, 9 annual services, but only received 8.
I do realise that breakdowns should have a higher priority than a routine service.
That's why I originally booked for August - very few breakdowns then!
I consider this really poor service.
Has anyone had similar experiences?

mcculloch29

Trawled through the thread and found that several of you have had the same experience....

martinbsp

Just stumbled across a new boiler cover company - Boilermedic:
http://boilermedic.com/index.php

They claim to offer a lot more than the bigger players including Powerflushing and boiler descaling....never seen that before.
http://boilermedic.com/compare.php

Ploughed through their Terms & Conditions but it really needs someone in the know to pick through the bones...
http://boilermedic.com/terms.php

Thoughts? Main drawback at the moment is that they only appear to operate in very limited areas (unless I've misunderstood).

One of the Director's is on LinkedIn:
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jon-dansey/24/6a4/913

(Sorry Jon, that photo has got to go mate, just looks dodgy...)

Thoughts on this?

grainged

I'd be a bit wary of that Boilermedic company.

First of all, while the "only £99" price point is being pushed as a bargain price, it's not actually that good. If you look at the comparison table it may seem reasonable, but that table is out of date and incomplete - for example, it fails to mention that the £18.69 product from Homeserve also covers other areas of your home, including plumbing, central heating, security, pest infestations, etc, so clearly this isn't a like-for-like comparison (aside to the fact that the £18.69 product is only £8.99 currently!).

Secondly, I personally don't have any trust in businesses whose websites clearly haven't been updated. If you look at Boilermedic's homepage, the £99 offer apparently expired in October!

martinbsp

grainged wrote: »

I'd be a bit wary of that Boilermedic company.

...Secondly, I personally don't have any trust in businesses whose websites clearly haven't been updated. If you look at Boilermedic's homepage, the £99 offer apparently expired in October!

Doh! Well spotted. They also only seem to serve a very narrow area of London despite your being able to choose what area of the country you live in. I guess they've probably gone under by now.

sandyl_2

grainged wrote: »

Homeserve's had a Winter sale on for a while now, but the leading offers have just improved. The cheapest boiler cover is now less than £6 a month, but the top-end product that covers pretty much everything (boiler, central heating, plumbing, etc) is now less than half price, only £8.99 per month. Add £45 cashback that you can get through the likes of TopCashBack and Quidco and you'll agree this is a seriously good deal.

It is cheap as they charge £50 per callout! :mad: Also notice on some plans, boilers over 7 years old are not covered.

Has anyone any actual experience of Homeserve?

mutley74

Ref: BG Home Care 200

Has anyone body else had a price increase for this service? Last year we were paying £15.25pm now price has increased to £19.39 without notice.