When to actually decide to get a new boiler ..

another_casualty

Okay the man has just been .
He has temporarily fixed the pressure . If it goes wrong over the next 24 hrs I have to adjust it myself to get everything running again .

His findings : new expansion vessel and new prv needed
He thinks it needs a new filter also .
Same chap as last time , so he knows how Mucky the system is
He didn't stay very long but gave it a good seeing to last time
Hopefully the company will do the above with no cost to me ..

trailingspouse

My boiler is probably about 16 years old (we were told it was 10 years old when we bought the house 6 years ago).
It gets serviced every year, and every year we're told it's getting old and we should think about replacing it. And every year it carries on, and I have a bit more in the savings pot towards replacing it. It can't go on forever but - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Sea_Shell

trailingspouse wrote: »

My boiler is probably about 16 years old (we were told it was 10 years old when we bought the house 6 years ago).
It gets serviced every year, and every year we're told it's getting old and we should think about replacing it. And every year it carries on, and I have a bit more in the savings pot towards replacing it. It can't go on forever but - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

We're the same. Ours is still the original boiler from when the house was built, nearly 30 years ago. We have it serviced annually, and again, have been told it's fine, and "doing well".

So yes, one day it will go (and you just know it'll be when it's -10c outside) but we've been budgeting for a new one for the last 18 years!!! What's the betting we'd be looking at replacing a replacement by now if we'd replaced it!!

New stuff never seems as robust as the old stuff, whatever appliance it is!!

another_casualty

Good points seashell and trailing spouse .
The annoying thing is I've spent a few hundred in the short time I've been in this flat , and expect a bill for a few more today .
A new boiler with cleaning etc is about £3,000 so I'm actually in a catch 22 situation ..

Bigphil1474

OP, a decent heating engineer should sort out the whole system when they fit a new boiler. Like any big purchase, it's always a risk. Our boiler broke down at Christmas 2 years ago, but it was over 30 years old. Unfortunately heating engineers tend to be very busy in the winter, but fortunately we have a heating engineer in the family. Best time to replace boilers is in the summer when the HE's are generally twiddling their thumbs.