I had a heating engineer and a couple of fitters come to my house today to install a couple of radiators and move a radiator on the middle floor of the house. I wanted the radiator moving about 50cm to the left. Not a big deal you would think. I got a call at lunchtime, could I go home as there was a problem. The engineer had detached the radiator, but he told me that I needed to replace all the central heating pipework in my house at a cost of around EUR 4000. Of course I don't want to pay this, so I asked him to just put the radiator back as it was, forget about moving it, and just install the other radiators as planned. But apparently he can neither put it back nor remove it for good as both of these options will involve potentially damaging the pipe which feeds the radiator (and the other radiators in the house). The radiator is fed off a vertical pipe that links to the boiler and the other floors through the chimney; the ' feeder pipe' is sort of bolted into the vertical pipe (i.e. there are bolts above and below it, connecting it to the pipe)
I don't know anything about central heating, but I'm sorry to say that I think that the reason he suggested changing the pipework is pure and simple because he has already damaged the pipework but doesn't want to admit it. He wants me to decide immediately to get the work done, and keeps pointing out that I'm already paying for his two fitters who have been sitting around all afternoon waiting to know whether or not I am going to replace the pipework.
Any views on this??? As I said, I know nothing about it, the guy could be totally honest, but I'm getting quite stressed!
Thanks in advance
I don't know anything about central heating, but I'm sorry to say that I think that the reason he suggested changing the pipework is pure and simple because he has already damaged the pipework but doesn't want to admit it. He wants me to decide immediately to get the work done, and keeps pointing out that I'm already paying for his two fitters who have been sitting around all afternoon waiting to know whether or not I am going to replace the pipework.
Any views on this??? As I said, I know nothing about it, the guy could be totally honest, but I'm getting quite stressed!
Thanks in advance