What are you all up to

Blasted ‘internal server errors’ are back..again! I’ve messaged the community manager, but expect nothing substantive in response...☹️

I looked in and found the essential maintenance screen 🤪

Thanks for all your replies re boiler. Guy here at the mo, well he's actually gone out to buy new thermostat for the boiler at this minute. Glad I kept a note of things as gave him a head start. Cold start to the day as asked not to have heating on so they could see how it works/or doesn't.  Now reached the barmy heights of 17c.

Thanks takethedogalong I'm grateful, yes older house here, 1930's solid walls and boiler much older than I feared, although I've not found actual installation date but definitely before 2002. Also have the 'added bonus' of extremely vunerable OH. Spoke to my brother yesterday, he understands these things and had a new boiler fitted late last year in the house he's moved into. I was pleasantly surprised at his idea of cost, much less than mine for a straight swop, 😀. And I'm using the company he used for several years, they've serviced and replaced pump in last couple of years. 🤞 the boiler thermostat will solve it. But probably only kicking the can down the road.......

Grey again here, pretty blustery, I checked metcheck before getting up - sun& cloud no rain BBC agreed with latter, so put some washing on. Don't think itll be pegged out! Moisture in the air.

Brue a real outing 😀 who'd of thought getting an MOT would be considered thus? Don't get over stimulated by the great outdoors.........

Hope the rain doesnt bring too disruptive floods but I fear it will. Hope DIL has cleared the blocked drain in the field, don't think son was overkeen on raking up the debris from the dyke. But I know the pump couldnt cope with volume of water, don't really understand Fen drainage, but then I don't need too!

Stay safe warm and dry folks and enjoy your day.

WN "That's one heck of a water hazard Rufs"

not a golfer but apparently one guy makes a lot of money from fishing the golf balls out and then selling them on

Bakers2 we also used British Gas for our new boiler 2 years ago. A second quote we had from an independant was slightly more expensive. We paid £4000 but I expect our installation was more complicated than a straight forward swap in the same location. We had our boiler moved upstairs and the gas rerouted which probably accounted for a fair slice of the cost. We have a Bosch Worcester combi boiler which thus far has proved to be good and our gas usage has reduced quite a lot because we are no longer heating a tank full of water. We also took advantage of their interest free offer at the time.

David

When we had a new boiler fitted 9years ago it was via or energy company( now Eon) it invovled taking out a back boiler, and locating the new boiler in our utility room some in this estate had new boilers installed in their lofts,  but they needed the loft to be boarded out to get them serviced , they have since found that it  ages to get hot water to the kitchen ,whereas ours in the outhouse is just under the bathroom and next to the kitchen so very short pipe runs witakesth minimal cold water  run off 

ps we were offered interest free finace but got instead £750 discount(just checked)for cash  

Thanks Freddy, it's taken me about 10 mins to add a post to a thread and then edit it, things are running very slowly.

Hi Bakers. Found some of our paperwork re boilers. It was organised by a local company who specialise in accessing Government funding. Think it’s something called the ECO scheme. (Most of the schemes are set up for those on benefits, or for landlords looking to put in new boilers. Neither applied to us, but a neighbour passed on details as she though we might be interested)

Way forward for anyone not in our area might be to contact a local heating firm, or a plumber, and ask if they can access the ECO scheme.  Sounds like it depends on age of existing boiler, age of property and if anyone has any underlying health issues, although frankly the questions were hardly asked. The firm we used were superb at accessing funding, but atrocious  at organising things, such as liaising with clients and the tradespeople actually carrying out the work. On the plus side, the tradespeople were very good, so good we have had plumbers back to fit some radiators for us, and we have new shower planned with them once it’s safe to have them back into house. In fairness, ours was a less than straightforward boiler install, we went from a conventional to a combi, so lots of re configuring, change diameter of some pipe work, take out storage and header tanks, and all done right at top of a very tall house, so hence the scaffolding. I dread to think what it would have cost us without the funding. A straight boiler swop would have been easier. 
British Gas did Mum and Dads a few years ago. Another old house, they ripped bedroom floors up, boiler isn’t where I would have chosen it to be, and they put pipe work where it was easier for them, but it’s been trouble free. 

Bakers, a replacement thermostat kept our old boiler running along for another decade👍 We only really went for above because it was too good to miss, we knew we would need to replace boiler if we decided to put house on market, and, getting rid of the old boiler, storage tank and header tank helped us to redesign attic project!

Sadly the new boiler thermostat didn't have the desired effect. Highly likely its the PCB, that'll be its 3rd. It's a Potterton boiler and were on Watch Dog about the issue years ago, apparently it hasn't improved 

My brother reckons Worcester Bosch, that's what he's got now - not a combo boiler. 

Now awaiting a call to arrange quote for new boiler, guy thinks our cupboard- normal kitchen wall cabinet, is a bit shallow, so we'll have to wait and see and a quote for new PCB.

Thanks for all you useful info it all helps the chewing over bit.

Takethedogalong I did wonder if it was the new goverment ECO thing. I await further developments and will update you all in due course.

Ours is a Worcester combi boiler B2, it went in about three years ago and cost under £3000, the previous boiler must have been an original Worcester Combi, it had lasted over 40 years! Good luck with your decisions.