POWER FLUSH WORTH THE MONEY??

[alan alkeson]

Power flush needed asap. Worcster Engineers who came out to my Elderly Neighbour who had called them out £300 call out and for that told her she needed a pump but needs a powerflush before as the sludge would damage the new one. I was meant to be working away until 24th Dec but finished the work early and got home to learn about this. I went to see her and they wanted total of £1150 power flush and new pump on a
worcester bosch greenstar 24i so to get her going i fitted a old pump and threw some chemicals in but how can they justify this??

 

[Jackrae]

Haven't you seen the price of horse feed ?

 

[alan alkeson]

Yer but its not that Expensive is it?

 

[McCombi]

Is this a price from Worcester Bosch direct?

Or a registered installer?

How big is house?

 

[Iamchamps]

Over heads.

British Gas quoted me close to 4k for a new boiler I had it fitted from an independent for less than 2k.

I think the fact she is elderly is irrelevant they would have given the same quote to a middle aged person if they came to the same conclusion of what needed doing.

 

[ianmcd]

That is a total rip off, she would be better putting that money towards a decent boiler from a good independent engineer that will include a flush with a long warranty, call Worcester and you should bet a partial refund from the fixed price call out as they couldnt fix the boiler

 

[JohnD]

Is this a price from Worcester Bosch direct?

Or a registered installer?

How big is house?

Perhaps we will never know.

 

[breadnbutter]

extortionate pricing.

 

[McCombi]

Perhaps we will never know.

Curious as I’ve heard rumours Worcester are or have started their own line of work that deals with flushing, system repairs etc rather than just the boilers only. I was worried about this as along with them partly owning boxt and being able to fit boilers much cheaper than rest of us they would then have their fingers in all the pies so to speak.

But if that’s the price they are quoting for a normal flush I’m not to bothered, but I’m wondering if house is huge with lots of rads or even if the fixed price repair is being included also in the price quoted.