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I,ve been quoted £3450 for an upgrade of a bolier, fitting of a cylinder thermostat, 3 port valve and a power flush of the system.One half days work in all.
The boiler in question costs £620, the hire of a power flush unit +chemicals is £90, the other items total less than £100.
total material/hire costs= £810
therefore total costs = £2640/10hours = £264 per hour!
Now I don't take that home in a week let alone in an hour!
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Hi rsheller,
You should get more replies on the In My Home board, so I'll move your thread over there.
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i would get a few more quotes. i have been quoted from £2400 to £4700 for the new boiler and all the work to go with it. i must say that i have had +- 10 quotes and all are for the install. its madness how there can be such a price variation
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Hi
I had a new Bosch combi boiler fitted last year, they took the old boiler out, and put in the new boiler downstairs, flushed out the system and fitted thermostat valves to my 8 radiators. cost £1800, took 2 days in all.
If you go here and put in your postcode you find all the corgi engineers in your area, so you could get quotes from a few of them.
Hope this helps
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Hello.
I paid £600 for my boiler to be replaced last November. I guess it's important to note that this was a straight swap with minimal pipe work. I bought the boiler, flue and room thermostat myself via the Internet and made them lots of cups of tea! They were done in half a day and it included a power flush.
If it helps, I live in Somerset - but please don't hold that against me!
As for your quote - definitely get more. Good luck!
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Hello whereami
Welcome to the MSE site.
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the hire of a power flush unit +chemicals is £90,
I was searching for somewhere to hire a power flush unit (£934 to buy complete with tester) so please advise wher I can hire it from at that price. I am told it will take all day to power flush my system (18 rads) so paying for an expensive plumber to do such an unskiller job is money down the drain.
I live South London
Mike
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do a google search for tool hire shops in your area. hewdons hire, john f hunt there are loads of hire shops out there good luck
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I was searching for somewhere to hire a power flush unit (£934 to buy complete with tester) so please advise wher I can hire it from at that price. I am told it will take all day to power flush my system (18 rads) so paying for an expensive plumber to do such an unskiller job is money down the drain.
I live South London
Mike
Your local HSS hire shop do them here is a link
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I am a corgi reg. engineer. It takes at least a day to powerflush a system. Also depending on where the boiler is situated this could make a difference to the time it takes to do the job, there are rules and regulations we have to follow which make fitting the new boilers a problem at times which takes more time. My company would allocate 3 days to do this job. As for the quote anything from £2300 upwards would be usual, i have just completed one of these on my own and it took 5 days and the customer was charged £3600, but this included moving the boiler due to regulations and also changing the cylinder and the tank in the roof, the boiler also has to be registered with Corgi which is an extra cost and would be included in your quote. HTH.
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Try these, they're a government funded group aiming nto get people to switch over to more energy efficient homes!!
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We are having our boiler and cylinder replaced next week, including a powerflush, pump and valves. Replacing a 25 year old Glo-worm! We got 5 quotes, ranging from nearly £3,000 down to £2,200. It should take them 2 1/2 days apparently.
We didn't go for the cheapest, nor the dearest. They were all quoting for the same products as well! I went for the company I felt could do the job best.
We'll get a 3 year warranty on the boiler and the company will adopt the entire heating system for a year, which is worth nearly £200 if compared to BG. I have just told BG where to shove their HomeCare cover
Gavin
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I agree with bear1, there are companies and individuals out there now claiming to carry out full powerflushes in a matter of an hour or so and this is complete nonsense. Unfortunately there seems to be some major problems emerging with heat exchangers on new condensing boilers on older systems, even where systems have been thoroughly flushed, many of them are scaling up within a matter of months, which is caused by a number of factors which include the low water content of the boiler and narrow waterways in the heat exchangers, dissimilar metals coupled with slightly acidic water, the slow circulation of hot water through the system which is caused by the temperature difference required, and the inevitable residue of old sludge in a system even when it has been thoroughly flushed. Ultimately I can foresee a recommendation from manufacturers in line with what most heating professionals have said for many years, which will be that condensing boilers should only be fitted on brand new systems, which is not great when you don't have a choice.
In recent months I have started to recommend people have their old boilers repaired for as long as they can, cost permitting, and I'm beginning to recommend 'B' rated boilers with cast iron primary heat exchangers such as the Suprima (never thought I'd hear myself say that) where replacements are necessary, which I believe will only be accepatble until April next year when all will need to be 'A' rated, as Vaillant just changed a heat exchanger on an Ecomax Pro for one of my customers this week after six months because of limescale with a suggestion that he fit a filter incorporating a hugely powerful magnet (not something that I or my customer would want in our houses) and an admission that he is doing this on virtually a daily basis.
Back to the original post, the costs of correctly installing boilers has risen sharply since April last year. There's no way it can be done properly in one or two days. The temperature differentials between flow and return on each separate radiator needs to be balanced to 20 degrees, which can often take the best part of a day (depending on the size of the system) along with all the commissioning and set-up checks for the boiler itself. Correct flushing also takes at least a day so there's two days purely on commissioning.
Extended warranties are always incentives for customers but there are factors to consider. Personally I would rather have the confidence that something simply won't go wrong. Baxi now offer a five year warranty on one of its combis, but having experienced their service team many, many times in the past, I have no confidence in them to handle that warranty efficiently or competently, and so will not subject my customers to that risk, I'd rather fit a product that I know is less likely to go wrong rather than one that could well go wrong but has a long warranty period and a premium for that hidden in the price.
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money saving plumber - you say you wouldn't recommend Baxi, but who would you recommed?
Also, now we're past April of 2006 - have the requirements changed? What would you recommend for someone like us ---
We've bought a property that has a EuroCombi boiler. We're told by the neighbours that it hasn't been serviced since 2001, and the stickers on the boiler back this up. It doesn't work and neighbours say it completely broke down some months ago. It has a single thermostat controller in the hallway - a simple dial - and the radiators don't have individual controls.
Cheers!