Dear all,
Over the weekend the central heating decided to pack up. I still have hot water and I believe that I have an open system Central heating (open tank in the loft what a pipe going into the top of it).
The system must be about 16 years old now and my partner and I are undecided whether we should pay out and get the current system fixed or change the whole lot as we are also suffering from three leaky valves and one radiator that is stone cold all the time.
We have never had a new boiler installed before so we would like to know the best course of action before we start spending money on getting people around.
If we call an engineer (in most cases) will they be able to give quotes there or do they have to visit to give a quote. Do most charge just to visit and give a quote. People have been telling us to get as many quotes as possible but if engineers are going to cost to get them round then by the time we have found the cheapest we would have spent the savings on getting the quotes in.
I have also seen an advert that says from 2006 you must have a condensing boiler at a minimum cost, is this the case? and all Rad have to have TRV's. Not sure what they are but just going to look them up. I am sure my old system will not have them.
Please help,
Over the weekend the central heating decided to pack up. I still have hot water and I believe that I have an open system Central heating (open tank in the loft what a pipe going into the top of it).
The system must be about 16 years old now and my partner and I are undecided whether we should pay out and get the current system fixed or change the whole lot as we are also suffering from three leaky valves and one radiator that is stone cold all the time.
We have never had a new boiler installed before so we would like to know the best course of action before we start spending money on getting people around.
If we call an engineer (in most cases) will they be able to give quotes there or do they have to visit to give a quote. Do most charge just to visit and give a quote. People have been telling us to get as many quotes as possible but if engineers are going to cost to get them round then by the time we have found the cheapest we would have spent the savings on getting the quotes in.
I have also seen an advert that says from 2006 you must have a condensing boiler at a minimum cost, is this the case? and all Rad have to have TRV's. Not sure what they are but just going to look them up. I am sure my old system will not have them.
Please help,