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[hotel21]

Gas boiler at my house is at least 24 years old and simple as simple can be.  No doubt its innefficient and she and I decided that, rather than move, we should tidy the nest a tad whillst time and cash enable us to do so.

Boiler was serviced as per contract last week and appointment arranged for a heating advisor to call and suss out the what and wherefors of an upgrade.

Summarised as change to a combi boiler, repositioned into an airing cupboard rather than in the kitchen.  Radiators and existing plumbing, by and large, remaining as per.  Only plumbing change is the run of external gas pipe and the copperwork to join the new boiler into existing system.  Change of location for this means roughly, 10 feet of copper into existing pipework of hot water cylinder which will thereafter be redundant. Gas supply, however, is an extension of perhaps 50 feet (but thats a guess).

Cost of a Gas Board branded Bosch combi boiler is circa £1200.

Any guess as to quoted completed job price?

[aaronjb]

Good lord.. I had much the same done with the exception of extending gas pipework (though he did have to re-run part of the pipe from meter to boiler) for not much more than the cost you've been quoted for the boiler alone!

[davethediver]

Between 3-4 bags of sand?

[Kevin Wood]

Enough to soak up any efficiency savings for the foreseeable future, I guess... If the old one's not broke?

[hotel21]

Enough to soak up any efficiency savings for the foreseeable future, I guess... If the old one's not broke?

Nail and head.....

Savings circa £350 per year ref. burn efficiency.

Thats countered by 'reduced spares availability' (same story for past 8 - 10 years, TBH) and found out that its the actual burn casting thats unavailable.  Given the lack of circuitry etc no real need to change, perhaps.......

.....seeing as it will be in excess of 13 years before this saving will let me break even FFS......   

[Vamps]

Enough to soak up any efficiency savings for the foreseeable future, I guess... If the old one's not broke?

That's the conclusion I have come to regarding ours, again quite old, stripped a similar one down for parts so they are covered as well for some time.....I recon I would be dead before I saved any money.......

[feeutfo]

Thats.... Steep. Tbh. Although all things are relative, ie, best quote we had was £2400 fitted. Similar situation to yours.
 But when compared to what we actually paid, with numerous extras, as we know a heating engineer(Biker, trained plumber, sparky, gas safe or whatever it is)  that original quote then became expensive compared to what we actually paid. Which we believe to be a good deal, although still plenty of room for mark up and profit for two days comfortably. Dont begrudge that at all, did a great job.
Condensing boiler re sited in the garage. Megaflow(?)
Power flush etc
New wireless stat, Drayton
New cotrol unit, honeywell
Monsoon water pump to boost water pressure from loft tank
Larger hot water tank to cope with geater flow.
Rad valves in major rooms x5 (honeywell being cheapest that are worth having)
Plus ph balance system at a differant address.

2,200 total partly cash payment. As a guide... ? 
Bit far from the Forth though.

But does explane why hes so mega busy and difficult to get hold of. Hes flat out.

[feeutfo]

So given the boiler price quoted, guessing 3k ish completed...?

[Taxi_Driver]

I can beat you on the age of your boiler H21.....mines 30years old....very inefficient, but very simple and keeps going and going.....

I did ask 3 plumbers to give me quote however, just for a 'bog standard' replacement boiler, in the same place as ancient one, feeding hot water tank (not a combi) .
Only one bothered to phone with a quote......£1580.....that was for a 15kw boiler, iirc

That quote included a power flush.....but me to install a room stat (which i've done, cordless one off fleabay, £32) and i already have stats on all the rads. (which you apparently need for the current regs)

I was thinking of waiting for this scheme....I selected 'Scotland' as to where i live and it still popped up.....so should be available to those 'ooopp north'

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/scotland/Take-action/Grants-and-savings/Green-Deal

[Taxi_Driver]

Foobared this up 

PS.....Why carnt you delete a post 

[dad1uk]

Foobared this up 

PS.....Why carnt you delete a post 

So we can all laugh at the mistakes!

[hotel21]

So given the boiler price quoted, guessing 3k ish completed...?

Try four and a half grand,,,,,,,,

[I_want_an_Omega]

We needed a new boiler. Got BG round for a quote - £9,500 

Had a couple of local guys round - similar price for a 40kw Bosch condensing conventional boiler. There was a lot of pipework required with powerflushing etc. Both said it would take 6 days and thats what it took. Price was £3150 of which something less than half was the boiler leaving the rest for labour/materials - which was fair in my view.

How on earth BG could quote 3 times that is totally beyond me.

[TheBoy]

Last boiler I changed (for Mrs TB's dad) cost us around £700 by the time the ancilleries were bought, and we'd paid the Corgi guy to test. Bulk of that was £600 for the boiler itself.


I have yet to see and use a usable combi.  Even my bro's floor to ceiling whopper suffers with 2 taps on.  A guy at work keeps saying how wonderful his is, and how its the best thing since sliced bread, but then moans how they have to queue for hot water, rather than use both bathrooms together.

[pscocoa]

My daughter just had a proper job done on shower with combi boiler and it is now fine for the first time ever. Plumber had to re-engineer pipe work as previously feeds were wrong way round. Not cheap mind.

At my place we have a condensing boiler and power showers - limiting factor is the size of hot water tank if you have house full.