I need a central heating engineer.. rough idea on cost?

[namsag]

Slight back track, by your description of gas valve that flamingo does have an overheat stat,
And if pilot is holding perfectly ok in ignition position without finger on the button ,then goes out as turned , then yep gas valve has gone
If it goes out as you take finger off button then this could be overheat stat etc
1OO Would be about right for one of these

 

[tonybhoy]

depends what area you live in??

google a few local firms and a few may have price guides up.

firms vary between £20 and £120 per hour and dont forget to ask if your paying + VAT

How come plumbers can can earn more than someone who spent six years training to be a doctor at medical school ?

First year junior doctor (outside of London) is on £24K ,second year £38K and rising to £90K plus at aged 34 (consultant) plus same again for private work and all plus pension and other benefits and psychiatrists can retire age 50 I believe.

Don't know any tradesman with those sorts of benefits.

 

[kevindgas]

Was recommended a guy who has replaced my pump valves, pump, and the water control valve but couldnt get the boiler to light after replacing the thermo couple.

sounds like a Cowboy

wrong thermocouple fitted? as for needing a gas valve I very much doubt it.

 

[kevindgas]

Is their anyone on on here earning 100k or more?

10K more like and thats a good year

 

[mlcinfl]

Gas valve or over-heat stat?
This is easy to determine. If you bridge out the over-heat stat and the pilot stays alight then it's the stat. If the pilot still goes out when the stat is bridged out, then it's the valve.
Depending on the model of valve then £100 is not too far out.

 

[Agile]

How come plumbers can can earn more than someone who spent six years training to be a doctor at medical school ?

With a GP comfortably earning £95,000 just doing NHS work then I think they are well paid.

The average wage for an employed plumber is about £25k and for a heating engineer about £35k.

The charges when they come to visit you are just that, charges! Its not what they are earning!

They have to pay for their registration, insurance, training, van, advertising etc.

It might be the only job that get that week!

Tony

 

[Bonus77]

Was recommended a guy who has replaced my pump valves, pump, and the water control valve but couldnt get the boiler to light after replacing the thermo couple.

sounds like a Cowboy

wrong thermocouple fitted? as for needing a gas valve I very much doubt it.

I have to admit, I did start to wonder, but the original work definately needed doing because the pump was on its last legs and had been leaking all over the controlv valve head.

For the pilot light, I replaced the thermo couple myself with a univeral one and it wouldnt light so when he came to do the pump, he brought other ones to try and still couldnt get it to stay light.

I do wonder wether i should just pay them for the pump work done and then just call BG with that fixed fee of £196..

I cant imagine how much its going to cost if they have to replace the overhear stat, gas valve and service the boiler when it could just be the wrong thermocouple!

 

[big-all]

Im not the most trustworthy person .......................

Who needs customers?

old comment i know but i am shure he means "trusting " as he has had previous problems with trades

 

[Bonus77]

Im not the most trustworthy person .......................

Who needs customers?

old comment i know but i am shure he means "trusting " as he has had previous problems with trades

Exactly, I didnt reply because I understood where the guy was coming from, but when youve been burnt in the past its always a worry.

Certainly didnt mean offense by it and am sure all help on here has been given by honest tradesmen.

 

[D_Hailsham]

How come plumbers can can earn more than someone who spent six years training to be a doctor at medical school ?

How many doctors do you know who have to buy their own tools? MRI scanner, CT scanner, X-ray, ultrasound etc.

 

[Agile]

With £95k p.a. for each doctor it makes you wonder why they dont buy a little equipment for their surgeries.

Ultrasound is relatively cheap and can show up quite a few abnormalities.

Of course they can get away with sending people off to the local hospital at great expense and get rid of them for a few weeks ( or months ).

The other problem is that many GPs are just generalists and have little experience of using anything more complicated that their sphygmomanometer.

Tony

 

[D_Hailsham]

The other problem is that many GPs are just generalists

That's why they are called General Practitioners

 

[Agile]

Not exactly so! The GP is the job they do!

Thay have all spent a few years working in hospitals as part of their basic training in different departments.

Many have worked in hospitals and become quite specialised but then, more recently, have been attracted by the recent significantly higher salaries for GPs.

That rarely happens in the heating industry as the classic generalists, BG engineers, usually leave BG to become specialists with particular manufacturers.

Sadly, the salaries for heating engineers is only a fraction of that for GPs.

Tony

 

[izzyeckerslike]

How come plumbers can can earn more than someone who spent six years training to be a doctor at medical school ?

They don't. Do you think that whatever a plumber charges goes straight into his a r s e pocket?

Average GP earns over 100k.

Is their anyone on on here earning 100k or more?

The fact is that only self employed doctors can earn anywhere near that,
take a look at the NHS payscale for doctors , surgeons etc

http://www.payscale.com/research/UK/People_with_Jobs_as_Physicians_/_Doctors/Salary

 

[Bonus77]

Okay, official quote in and it seems more than reasonable to me in the end..

£200 which covers the pump valves, pump, control valve and boiler specific thermo couple inc labour.

£200 for gas valve, overheat stat and service inc labour.