Agile said:
I dont think he is a heating engineer !
He sounds like a parts changer.
I hope that you are not paying him for fitting all those parts which are nor required!
I expect Baxi/Potty do a fixed price repair and certainly British Gas do as well.
Better to get one or the other out instead and ask him for a full refaund of anything you have paid him as he has not fixed anything.
This is BAD avdice and is liable to get you into court, or with concrete poured down your drains and glue in your locks, as in East Enders.
Was the agreement that he would guarantee to fix the boiler or charge nothing, providing free parts while he was at it? I doubt it.
And if it wasn't, the guy has to be paid.
There are no quallifications for repairing boilers
per se. COrgi is only about gas
safety.
If he's done what a combination of the manufacturer and their instructions say, he hasn't been negligent. WHat he's doing is "reasonable" in the eyes of the law.
He probably isn't very good and some parts he changed may not have been faulty, but we can't tell from here. But as long as he gets it fixed eventually, You can't go back on the initial contract, even if it wasn't written down.
He would of course be able to remove the new gas valve, say, to see if it was faulty. Then you wouldn't have to pay for the valve, only the work. If he says it was faulty, you're stuck.
So be careful whom you call, and what agreement you have. If you leave it open ended, you're vulnerable.
