Boiler service cover

Irish_Steve

Hi all,

Maybe I'm in the wrong section of the forum but I was looking for advice on the best boiler cover that gives an annual service. I have looked up ones online but I think it's best if you hear from people who have actually bought said products.
I'm just in the process of switching as my annual Cheap Energy Club email has come in so trying to do all the switching etc in the next couple of days
Thanks

tim_p

There’s quite a few threads on here about boiler cover and various suggestions, some fairly recent ones so give them a read and come back with an questions that arise. There seems to be a consensus around putting any money you’d pay into a savings account and use it to pay a trusted local gas fitter to do the annual service >£100 and save all that’s left for any repairs should they arise. Certain companies get a good hammering here too, one I think might rhyme with ‘bone swerve’. 

Irish_Steve

Cheers Tim, perhaps I did not word my search correctly. The other slight problem is that the boiler is just over ten years old so also looking at ways to fund a new one!

tim_p

I shouldn’t add up all you’ve paid for cover in the past then!  I’d be concerned that an unscrupulous company providing cover may well be eager to condemn your boiler and magically be able to offer a replacement at a special price. I’d stick with the trusted local company idea. 

geizkragen

Another ‘provider’ I could NOT recommend 
homeemergencyassist 
1. poor file management leads to lengthy phone calls 
2. In-plan price rise (to be investigated )
3. Suspension of boiler service due to Covid without the slightest hint of making good.

in summary: they are all too happy to take your cash without
 homeemergencyassist (ance) 

matelodave

Irish_Steve said:

Cheers Tim, perhaps I did not word my search correctly. The other slight problem is that the boiler is just over ten years old so also looking at ways to fund a new one!

You wont fund a new one by lashing out £100 or more a year for insurance.

Had you been putting aside £100 for the past ten years you'd have £1000 in the bank towards a new one, however had you paid it to an insurance company you'd have nowt and they still probably wouldn't give you new one

Most insurers get a bit chary about insuring boilers that have had their 10th birthday especially if they haven't been regularly serviced. If you need a service then get a local firm to do it and save what you'd pay for insurance towards a new one.

Do as Tim suggests and see what others think about what they've got and whether it was good value after paying out for years. As he says, "bone swerve" seems to come in for quite a bit of criticism.

Brewer20

I've got a 4 year old boiler, Worcester Bosch. It's still in warranty for another two years, that replaced a 22 year old Worcester. The old one only had one repair to it, a new control board £200. I hardly ever had that one serviced, it did well for that amount of years.
Anyways I hate spending on unnecessary stuff, my new boiler gets serviced every year for £50, the fitter who installed it fits them in all properties he has, he can't be messing with boilers breaking down that's why he fits that make.  When asked he told me, nowt actually goes wrong with them it'll do you very well years after the warranty runs out, just have it serviced each year and if anything goes wrong I won't fleece with extortionate repair bills.
So if you can find a decent engineer just put money in pot for service/repairs or if the inevitable comes along a new boiler.