Update about my thread re: leaking Diverter Valve here. People might not go through the 40+ responses in that post to read this so I made a new thread as it's a slightly different issue.
Plumber came around yesterday and is quoting over £370+ to replace it with a brass original DV from Vaillant. The DV in the boiler at the moment is a plastic one (I'm not sure if it's been changed previously). The company said they wouldn't install any DV other than an original from Vaillant, from their own supplier, and they are guessing that either the DV in the boiler is one of the earlier models or it was previously brass but had been replaced with a plastic one.
That's a lot more money than I thought it would be, do you think the company are trying to rip me off? They actually seem genuine and decent people when talking to them but the cost is astronomical. I think the boiler itself was a reconditioned one and cost £800 so they're basically charging half the price of the boiler!
One issue is that if the boiler originally had a brass DV and was replaced with a plastic one, then what's the point of having the original brass one if it's susceptible to the same sort of failure anyway?
This is their cost structure:
£88 + VAT for the initial plumber call out.
£64 + VAT for the follow up to replace (per hour)
£155 for the brass Diverter Valve.
Any ideas/advice would be appreciated once again, I'm getting pretty anxious at the price of this. At the moment they're due to come around again tomorrow to replace it.
Plumber came around yesterday and is quoting over £370+ to replace it with a brass original DV from Vaillant. The DV in the boiler at the moment is a plastic one (I'm not sure if it's been changed previously). The company said they wouldn't install any DV other than an original from Vaillant, from their own supplier, and they are guessing that either the DV in the boiler is one of the earlier models or it was previously brass but had been replaced with a plastic one.
That's a lot more money than I thought it would be, do you think the company are trying to rip me off? They actually seem genuine and decent people when talking to them but the cost is astronomical. I think the boiler itself was a reconditioned one and cost £800 so they're basically charging half the price of the boiler!
One issue is that if the boiler originally had a brass DV and was replaced with a plastic one, then what's the point of having the original brass one if it's susceptible to the same sort of failure anyway?
This is their cost structure:
£88 + VAT for the initial plumber call out.
£64 + VAT for the follow up to replace (per hour)
£155 for the brass Diverter Valve.
Any ideas/advice would be appreciated once again, I'm getting pretty anxious at the price of this. At the moment they're due to come around again tomorrow to replace it.