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[Chicken Licken]

I have spent the day at my 94 year old grannie's. I happened to look at her gas bill which is due to rise to £87 a month -that's almost £1000 a year! She doesn't have much money and will struggle to heat the house - it is a 1930s 3 bedroom house with next to no insulation and no double glazing. We are working on convincing grannie to take up the free insulation for the over 70s, but really she needs her 22 year old boiler replacing with a more economic version.

 

Can any of you give me a rough idea of how much a new boiler would cost - not just to buy but for the installation as well.

 

I think we may be clubbing together amongst the grandchildren to replace it ASAP.

[chelsea]

We had a replacement boiler fitted in August.

 

It was £1527.50 (I will remember the exact price for a long time!) which was removal of old boiler in our garage and replacement, Im not a plumber but the job looked simple and easy to me and he was only here for 4 hours!

 

Felt like I'd been robbed!

 

I would suggest getting several quotes or go with someone somebody recommends rather than picking someone out the yellow pages.

[Christian]

Sorry, can't help with the boiler, but do get the loft insulated asap. It does make a difference. Also speak to the Council about cavity wall insulation - I think it is free to the over 70s.

 

Good luck with the boiler.

[bellekatz]

We had a new boiler a few weeks back - cost just under £2000 with the replacment, new control thermostat (building regs) and the whole thing flushed out first.

[MedusA]

Crikey, chelsea, I was thinking how cheap that was!

 

We were quoted a year ago by British Gas for around £2,500. I nearly fainted.

 

Needless to say, we still have our old, inefficient-but still-working boiler and are thinking the money would be better spent on a wood-burning stove. That said, I guess that's not really an option for Chicken Licken's elderly Gran.

 

Definitely go for any freebie insulation that the council will provide, if she qualifies.

[missuscluck]

I think the cost varied depending on the rest of the work needed to make it fit into your existing system. We had a floor standing boiler in the kitchen and had no suitable outside wall to have a wall mounted one put on to so we had our hot water tank taken out of the airing cupboard upstairs and had it fitted in there. It cost us about £3000.00 to have it done due to the extra work needed to make it fit.

Can your granny get any grants for the boiler as well as the loft insulation. My mum is over 70 and she had some kind of cavity insualtion done for free.

[Chicken Licken]

Thank you all for your replies. The biggest problem with grannie is she refuses to be a burden to anyone and won't 'accept charity' instead she keeps one room warm and the rest of the house is baltic in coldness. We are putting up a good argument for the free insulation - 'you've already paid for it in the cost of your bill' etc. etc. She is a product of her generation and finds it very hard to accept any help at all. We will get there in the end but it seems so silly when she could be so much more warm and comfortable

[FORENSICA]

We had our boiler replaced about 3 weeks back. We had 2 quotes before that which came to £1200 and £2500 (a more expensive boiler and some extras they insisted on, but still unacceptable high quote I reckon). We live in East End.

So we had Baxi boiler installed for £1400 (£200 more since we wanted a higher performance boiler then first accounted for) including power flush and timer. We are very happy with it so far.

I suggest to check the prices of boilers on the web and then you will know what is reasonable pricing for work done (our boiler was about £800)

Good luck with persuading your granny