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Need a new boiler asap
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you will want an extra days labour and a new core bit to get through an aberdeen flavour granite block.........pretty much demonstrates the point i was making earlier about regional variances.
Did this firm from Yell.com give you a quote?
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from being the key word Agile, one you always omit when quoting your prices on these fora
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Hi All,
Thanks for all your replies, well we finally have a new boiler in, after 1 week of no heating and no hot water, but we're not so happy with it!
We ended up going with a quote for £3100
oh and we need to pay an extra £150 as we apparently needed a magnetic cleanser thing. But we were quite happy to pay that as we thought the company seemed professional and we wanted the job done properly and thoroughly.
but.....
Now we have not so hot heating, erratic cold/hot/cold water, an ugly condensate pipe down the back of the house which we weren't informed about before, a hole in the wall where the old boiler was because they just wanted to cement the patch rather than brick it like the rest of the house, our bathroom is still baltic as the heated towel rail no longer works and a very messy loft as they just left all the bits of pipe, boxes and tank up there! Plus our carpet was ripped when they pulled it up, lots of scrapes and gouges on the walls where they fitted the TRVs and broken tile in the bathroom.
Thankfully we haven't paid anything yet and won't until all of the above is fixed!
Normally we research things like crazy but because we were pretty desperate to get some heating and hot water, we just didn't have the time! I'm almost tempted to say to bring back our 30 year old boiler - it performed much better than this one currently is!
Do we really need that ugly pipe down the front of our wall!? All we were told was that the condensate would be drained into a soakaway. I've been looking at other people's houses and I can't see any with a pipe down it! What happens if it freezes in winter? Which I'm sure it will living up here!
Thanks for all your replies, well we finally have a new boiler in, after 1 week of no heating and no hot water, but we're not so happy with it!
We ended up going with a quote for £3100
oh and we need to pay an extra £150 as we apparently needed a magnetic cleanser thing. But we were quite happy to pay that as we thought the company seemed professional and we wanted the job done properly and thoroughly. but.....
Now we have not so hot heating, erratic cold/hot/cold water, an ugly condensate pipe down the back of the house which we weren't informed about before, a hole in the wall where the old boiler was because they just wanted to cement the patch rather than brick it like the rest of the house, our bathroom is still baltic as the heated towel rail no longer works and a very messy loft as they just left all the bits of pipe, boxes and tank up there! Plus our carpet was ripped when they pulled it up, lots of scrapes and gouges on the walls where they fitted the TRVs and broken tile in the bathroom.
Thankfully we haven't paid anything yet and won't until all of the above is fixed!
Normally we research things like crazy but because we were pretty desperate to get some heating and hot water, we just didn't have the time! I'm almost tempted to say to bring back our 30 year old boiler - it performed much better than this one currently is!
Do we really need that ugly pipe down the front of our wall!? All we were told was that the condensate would be drained into a soakaway. I've been looking at other people's houses and I can't see any with a pipe down it! What happens if it freezes in winter? Which I'm sure it will living up here!
They quoted us £2700 excluding vat
This is why i'll be keeping our 90's Ideal Mexico 2 36kw boiler running till the heat exchanger starts leaking, and have been advised by a friendly RGI to do just that.
Sorry to hear of your woes, hope you get it sorted.
And what POS did you end up with Ryiah?
Sorry to hear your woes.
Glad you haven't paid.
Sorry to hear your woes.
Glad you haven't paid.
so you didnt listen to anybodies advice on here? and ended up no better off!!!!!
Sorry not sure what POS is?
We now have a Viessmann 100-W Combi boiler installed in the attic, with a remote programmer and TRVs installed on all radiators (8). We are still waiting for the weather compensation kit to be installed.
Why did you want a combi boiler?
We charge an extra £400 to convert to a combi.
You should have had an electric immersion element in your old hot water tank.
I would have offered to fit one when coming to quote for fitting a new boiler. Then you have hot water!
Tony
We charge an extra £400 to convert to a combi.
You should have had an electric immersion element in your old hot water tank.
I would have offered to fit one when coming to quote for fitting a new boiler. Then you have hot water!
Tony
Ryiah, might be a simple reason for what your boiler is doing.
The condensate pipe outside- check the size. It should not be 3/4" as it will freeze during the winter and you will end up with no heating or hot water. Better to have this pipe discharging internally
Fitting a filter might have a sting in the tail as a system must be clean or product warranty can be worthless. In my books cleaning is part of boiler replacement task. A simple draindown will not remove system sediment. Get some water from radiator bleedoff point and see what colour it is.
If boiler is in the loft, the gas line line will almost certainly need to be larger than 22mm pipe (would think 28mm- position of gas meter determines the pipe bore size and distance to the boiler), Fire up a burner on the hob. While watching the size of the flame, run the hot tap. Does the flame remain at the same height?
Finally, quoting figures without seeing the job is purely speculative. The price you paid I think is the right prices if the job is done correctly. I hope the snagging gets done on the changeover and boiler keeps you warm and supplied with hot water.
The condensate pipe outside- check the size. It should not be 3/4" as it will freeze during the winter and you will end up with no heating or hot water. Better to have this pipe discharging internally
Fitting a filter might have a sting in the tail as a system must be clean or product warranty can be worthless. In my books cleaning is part of boiler replacement task. A simple draindown will not remove system sediment. Get some water from radiator bleedoff point and see what colour it is.
If boiler is in the loft, the gas line line will almost certainly need to be larger than 22mm pipe (would think 28mm- position of gas meter determines the pipe bore size and distance to the boiler), Fire up a burner on the hob. While watching the size of the flame, run the hot tap. Does the flame remain at the same height?
Finally, quoting figures without seeing the job is purely speculative. The price you paid I think is the right prices if the job is done correctly. I hope the snagging gets done on the changeover and boiler keeps you warm and supplied with hot water.
very true of course - as long as the installers leaving everything working and tidy.
POS= Piece of sh...t A term I use for anything not working as it should.
POS= Piece of sh...t A term I use for anything not working as it should.
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