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Fixed price from Heateam was £270. They offered me the option of their repair and cover which is £25 per month for 12 months (£300) so I went with that seeing as this was the third fault. That included this repair and any further repairs in the next 12 months. Anyway, it turned out to be the...

Do you work for them by any chance? :wink:

Is this one fixed price or a tier system like BG?

Cheers guys. I'll look into it further. I could do without the hassle on my xmas break! EDIT: looks like the tiers are £69, £189, £349 for BG

Yeah, that's probably likely. The reason I considered BG is because they offer a fixed quote where they won't charge you more than that quote even if it takes longer to fix or needs more parts than they thought. I guess I could call a local guy too and see what he says.

Thanks, I kind of expected as much. I think I'll call British Gas and get one of those fixed price quotes. Merry Christmas! :(

Hi guys (if anyone is reading this over xmas). I had the nice present of my boiler breaking on christmas eve! Oh joy. I'm getting no hot water or central heating and the fan/flue fault (50°C) light is flashing. I know there are similar threads on here and I've read through a few of them...

If you're framing out and insulating on the interior, you want a vapour check membrane to stop warm moist air passing through the plasterboard & insulation and condensing on your cold walls. 500 gauge visqueen or foil backed plasterboard will suffice.

Did more work today but still haven't got all the bricks out. I found a couple that are bonded into the side piers (are these actually called cheeks?) so not sure what to do with those. I'll try chisel them out I guess. Would appreciate it if anyone has any advice on my original questions...

Don't worry I have no intention of installing the stove myself. Looking up the chimney, I'm fairly certain I'll need a liner but I'll be getting an HETAS guy to do all that. At the moment I'm just preparing the opening and want advice in preventing my chimeny collapsing!

I know there's a lot of these threads but I thought I'd start one specific to my project. I'm opening up my fireplace so I can have a wood burning stove installed. So far I've gone from this: to this: I was fairly lucky in that the new brickwork was set back abuut 150mm from...

Just had a look at my electricity bill and it appears I'm on a single rate despite having a day/night meter. I got charged 38 kWh at 22.4p and 171kWh at 8.74p depsite using 77 kWh at night and 132 kWh in the day! That bill is for 28 days and seems to tally with their single rate tariff...