Originally posted by Lockhouse
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...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by chicaneI'm having a BG engineer round next week to take a look at the house. He suggested over the phone that a realistic price for a C/H installation from scratch in a house of this type (2 bed through terrace) would be 4.5k, which seems a bit over the mark to me.
What did the boiler install cost?
This guy also does contract work for BG, so if you paid BG to do it there is a good chance you would get him coming along to do it for you ayway. £4500 to put in an extra 5 radiators and do the associated plumbing seems a bit steep to me (i'm assuming 5 radiators in a 2 bed terrace).Comment
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Originally posted by LockhouseISTR £1800 for a 3 bet flat - It would have been cheaper but there were technical problems that needed to be solved as well.
I had a quote for a oil-based system for a 2/3 bed (soon to be a 4 bed) detached house at 13k. Needless to say I didn't take them up on it but I was expecting about 4-7k.Comment
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Originally posted by Ardesco£4500 to put in an extra 5 radiators and do the associated plumbing seems a bit steep to me (i'm assuming 5 radiators in a 2 bed terrace).
Chugnut - I think Lockhouse just had a replacement boiler - can see no mention of rads in the post.Comment
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Originally posted by ChugnutI think that's a brilliant price considering the cost of the condensing (presumably combi) boiler, pipework, about 5-7 rads I guess, and the labour to fit it....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by LockhouseThat was for a boiler install only....I did say there were technical issues.Comment
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Originally posted by chicaneThe £4500 is to replace the existing hot water boiler with a combi and install around 5 radiators around the house. Not sure how clear I was about this before.
Chugnut - I think Lockhouse just had a replacement boiler - can see no mention of rads in the post.
As stated above they did quite a bit of work for the money and I can't belive that plonking a few radiators in would cost £3000 above what I paid. It sounds very steep indeed.Comment
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I paid £3800 last year to have two boilers removed, a new BIG boiler fitted (5 bedroom, three storey house to heat), one new radiator, and new thermostat fitted.
New boiler is a condensing, combi boiler, with its own hot water tank as a kind of immersion heater (it gets used first while the rest heats up). The boiler itself was about £2500, so the rest was relatively cheap.Comment
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Originally posted by TheFaqqerI paid £3800 last year to have two boilers removed, a new BIG boiler fitted (5 bedroom, three storey house to heat), one new radiator, and new thermostat fitted.
New boiler is a condensing, combi boiler, with its own hot water tank as a kind of immersion heater (it gets used first while the rest heats up). The boiler itself was about £2500, so the rest was relatively cheap.
I'd go the combi route for ease of install but had heard from numerous parties that if someone is running a bath at the same time as running the hot tap, the supply drops to a trickle.
"Good for flats, not so good for families", they cried.Comment
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Originally posted by ChugnutHave you found usage of the hot water by a number of sources simultaneously makes the flow at the taps significantly reduce though, TheFagger?
I'd go the combi route for ease of install but had heard from numerous parties that if someone is running a bath at the same time as running the hot tap, the supply drops to a trickle.
"Good for flats, not so good for families", they cried.
Haven't tried running the bath at the same time as the shower though. With the old heating, you had to run the cold tap on the bath, so that there wasn't enough water anywhere else and all you could get was hot out of the shower. That was to get it up to "tepid", so what we have now was well worth the expenditure!Comment
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