Advice Please

[Urban_Gorilla]

Evening all

Please bear with me, I am new to the forum.

I have just got a quote for an upgrade for a 24 year old Baxi boiler to a Worcester 30SI combi with the programmable room thermostat and thermostatic valves for 10 radiators. The questions are:

1 is a Worcester 30 SI a decent boiler?
2- is £2,150 a fair price to pay for the North of England?

All your input is greatly appreciated.

Regards

 

[gas4you]

Nothing wrong with the worcester and the price seems about right if it is plus VAT. If it includes vat, a proper powerflush and any upgrade to your gas pipe size supplying the worcester, then bite his hand off

 

[Soggy_weetabix]

Great price.

I love Worcesters. Get a decent engineer early who will service / maintain it and you will have many many years of good service.

David

 

[Urban_Gorilla]

Dave: the VAT is included with the price and includes a powerflush, a corrosion preventive inhibitor, 3 years material guarantee and six years workmanship warranty.

David: The engineer is a member of both the IPHE and also a Corgi registered (I have checked both websites to confirm the membership).

Thank you both for your prompt reply and have a lovely weekend.

Regards

 

[Agile]

The most important parts are the ones you have not mentioned!

That is about cleaning the system. Powerflushing or whatever is done must be based on a full guarantee by the installer that HE will be responsible for any dirt in the system causing a problem in the future.

Also that he is genuinely CORGI registered and will notify CORGI of your installation.

Just today I came across a builder fitted boiler just two days old with a pump failure due to dirt in the system.

Tony

 

[gas4you]

Dave: the VAT is included with the price and includes a powerflush, a corrosion preventive inhibitor, 3 years material guarantee and six years workmanship warranty.

David: The engineer is a member of both the IPHE and also a Corgi registered (I have checked both websites to confirm the membership).

Thank you both for your prompt reply and have a lovely weekend.

Regards

Well I think you have a bargain then

 

[Urban_Gorilla]

The most important parts are the ones you have not mentioned!

That is about cleaning the system. Powerflushing or whatever is done must be based on a full guarantee by the installer that HE will be responsible for any dirt in the system causing a problem in the future.

Also that he is genuinely CORGI registered and will notify CORGI of your installation.

Just today I came across a builder fitted boiler just two days old with a pump failure due to dirt in the system.

Tony

Agile.

Thank you for your reply. Please check the above edited reply.

I also have to add the Certificate for Building control and part P for electrical work will be self certified through Corgi.

Regards

 

[Soggy_weetabix]

2 days Tony?

Be jeeesus them London installers are bad.

David

 

[gas4you]

I can't believe any system would make a pump fail in 2 days unless it is full of actual treacle

I wouls suggest it is a faulty pump that would have failed on a clean system, but Tony found a couple of specs of dirt in the water

 

[corgiman]

The most important parts are the ones you have not mentioned!

That is about cleaning the system. Powerflushing or whatever is done must be based on a full guarantee by the installer that HE will be responsible for any dirt in the system causing a problem in the future.

Also that he is genuinely CORGI registered and will notify CORGI of your installation.

Just today I came across a builder fitted boiler just two days old with a pump failure due to dirt in the system.

Tony

Gawd Blimey tony

This bloke has found what appears to be a decent chap (a IPHE member no less) who is charging a more than fair price for a fair job of work. But you have to find fault, why?

As for "Powerflushing or whatever is done must be based on a full guarantee by the installer that HE will be responsible for any dirt in the system causing a problem in the future"

If the boiler fails before any one else drains down the system, takes off a rad etc etc without topping up the ihibitor then I think you will find that the installer will be responsible under the "Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982" so he doesnt have to go to the trouble of giving a written guarantee as an act of parliment insists that he does

OP this chap sounds like a top man

and Agile Lighten up for gawds sake, other people are more than capable of doing a good job for a fair price.

 

[gas4you]

Yeah but Tony will still undercut him and he's the only one who knows how to powerflush

 

[Agile]

I made my posting before I read that he was IPHE and CORGI registered.

This sounds like a fully competent and decent installer who will do a good job at a very reasonable price. In any case the IPHE has a complaints procedure which keeps us members on our toes!

The failed pump is on a boiler installed by an East European builder who admits he is not registered. I was going to see it today but now its put back until Monday.

My worst fears are that I will find a serious gas or flue problem and have to condem it before I even look at the pump!

I will probably go over the weekend to one where the installer has given a false CORGI number. I have yet to break the news to the owner.

Tony

 

[Gasman1015]

I made my posting before I read that he was IPHE and CORGI registered.

This sounds like a fully competent and decent installer who will do a good job at a very reasonable price. In any case the IPHE has a complaints procedure which keeps us members on our toes!


Tony

Being a member of any of the many organisations that are available to us is no guarantee of the competence of any individual, they all have there own complaints procedure.

 

[sunny24]

Hi Urban-Gorilla,

Whose your quote from? I'm in Manchester and need another quote from a plumber and yours seems decent? Got his number?