Back when we were doing the extension at our place, we had plans involving having the boiler temporarily moved while the bit of house it had been attached to was demolished. We called in a gas engineer to do this, and he said (paraphrase): "good god no, this is a piece of crap of the first water, I shall condemn it right now". Which was nice, since it was about this time of year.
Luckily we had an immersion heater in our hot water tank as a backup, but I don't want to think what our fuel bills were until its replacement was installed in the rebuilt bit.
We had to get a new boiler as soon as we moved in, because the guy we called into service the old one instantly condemned it (the flue had corroded through and it was drawing exhaust gases back into the room…) But I suspect by now, seven years on, they're that much more efficient again that it would be worth considering a replacement job.
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Possibly not a rational conclusion. Boiler servicing is eye-wateringly expensive and doesn't magically prevent components from failing. Replacing the thing when it breaks is likely cheaper.
Servicing isn't that expensive: ~100 quid IIRC and they can a) clean out the boiler so it doesn't get clogged up (the main problem with ours) b) detect if it is beginning to generate CO Ours seemed to be working fine (i.e. heating and hot water, no more than the usual sounds), it was sheer luck sielis smelled something odd.
I am also a fan of getting boilers serviced regularly and it cost us around £100 last time. Very glad none of you were posioned. The very cheap CO detectors are worth having too.
I know your place is bigger than ours, plus, presumably emergency London prices, but two grand seems a bit steep. Our new one last year was well under a grand including fitting.
Hurrah for not being poisoned, though! £2k is a bargain really ;)
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Back when we were doing the extension at our place, we had plans involving having the boiler temporarily moved while the bit of house it had been attached to was demolished. We called in a gas engineer to do this, and he said (paraphrase): "good god no, this is a piece of crap of the first water, I shall condemn it right now". Which was nice, since it was about this time of year.
Luckily we had an immersion heater in our hot water tank as a backup, but I don't want to think what our fuel bills were until its replacement was installed in the rebuilt bit.
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This post brought to you by the "Get your boiler serviced regularly!" marketing board.
Possibly not a rational conclusion. Boiler servicing is eye-wateringly expensive and doesn't magically prevent components from failing. Replacing the thing when it breaks is likely cheaper.
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a) clean out the boiler so it doesn't get clogged up (the main problem with ours)
b) detect if it is beginning to generate CO
Ours seemed to be working fine (i.e. heating and hot water, no more than the usual sounds), it was sheer luck sielis smelled something odd.
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Hurrah for not being poisoned, though! £2k is a bargain really ;)
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