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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:53 pm 
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john wrote:
this price for a boiler is a rip off
how can one cost thousands ?
get a nice second hand car for that
i would think , no boiler should cost more than a few hundred £ £500 max


In my case you are talking a full floor to ceiling warm air unit including the cabinet, all workings and a circulatory hot water system.
I can understand your concern if it was just one of those jobs that hangs on the wall.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:52 pm 
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And I thought after privatisation , company's like this woud have to pay thousands an hour , if the dug up a road
Bus companies , paying rent for the bus stops etc
What a con


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 11:53 pm 
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Kremmen wrote:
It's the BG engineers (or whatever you call them) that let them down. I also reckon they don't have enough in depth knowledge. In my case one of the problems on the old boiler that they failed to diagnose was a faulty air flow sensor.

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Exactly right - in the case of BG the engineers are like a Jack of all trades but master of none !! They get minimum training on various makes of boiler and obviously they are up to date on current regs, but give them a difficult problem or an uncommon appliance and they're out of their depth ! Its far better to take out a contract with the manufacturer - works out cheaper and they arrive with a van load of spares for that make of boiler - majority are fixed on the first visit . BG are really only any good for landlords who have to have a cheap basic contract to satisfy a letting agent etc.

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