British Gas have quoted to replace our 25 year old boiler!

[hughstjust]

British Gas have quoted to replace our 25 year old boiler for our 4 bedroom Victorian semi-detached house and have suggested a Baxi Solo 15HE condensing boiler which will take them 1 day to fit at a cost of £2,000.

I'm not sure whether this is up for the job and it seems pretty pricey to me - am I wrong?

 

[cross thread]

they must have sized it for the house. good price with flush and warranty

 

[kevplumb]

to good a price for bg

theres a rabbit off

 

[Steady]

They have definitely not overspecc'd it in terms of output. Can't see that your radiators are going to be bouncing off the walls ten minutes after start-up.

 

[powell30]

That is a good price from BG.

Boiler is perfectly adequate unless you have 15 plus double rads and a 300 litre unvented tucked away

 

[mickyg]

what boiler have you got now?

 

[Mark Br]

Almost too good a price from BG to be true

 

[Steady]

Boiler is perfectly adequate unless you have 15 plus double rads

Eh? Sure you've done the maths?

Rough average for a double rad is ,let's say, between 4000 and 6000 btu's.

Multiply x 15 = 60,000 btu's (at least)

Boiler's giving less than 50,000!

 

[powell30]

Steady, the point was rhetorical.....ie unless he has unusual heating demands then the boiler is adequate.

If i had known you were gunna bring your calculator......

 

[Steady]

Ok ,fair enough.

But they do always seem to specify weedy boilers these BG chaps.
Where's their Christmas spirit?

 

[powell30]

Must be the way they are making up margin, now they are dropping prices......

I saw a Solo 18he fitted by BG last year in a 3 bed semi the other day.......6 rads 1 double.......guy said the place heats up in 10mins from cold

The 15 is a bit stingy....but can only assume they did the calcs and customer requirements

 

[petit_pablo]

they must have sized it for the house. good price with flush and warranty

Doubt they are getting a flush and the warranty will be 1 years homecare. 2k for a straight swap, probably not doing TRvs either.

 

[doitall]

Has to have a minimum 2 year warranty, if the manufacturer also insists on a powerflush, that has to be included as well, as does any system upgrades.

Perhaps BG are re-claiming the £400.00 scrappage scheme.

 

[ub7rm]

I got a quote from BG (and subsequently gave them the work) at around this time of year a couple of years ago. They were very competitive and I got the impression the salesman was cutting the price to the bone. Perhaps they need to meet annual targets this time of year / they know Jan / Feb are particularly quiet months?

 

[RigidRaider]

By comparison we paid a plumber £3000 to fit a condensing boiler in our 4 bed house, there were quite a few extras though as we wanted the boiler relocated and some major changes to the main pipework.