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Title: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: steved on May 02, 2017, 10:47:22 AM: Hi
Is it possible (and allowed) to swap out old gas boiler in Settlers Court for an electric one?

If yes, can anyone recommend a competent, reliable and cost competitive engineer?

Many thanks.
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: G-Man on May 03, 2017, 10:20:33 PM: steved yes you can. few discussions already here. just to a search
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: steved on June 27, 2017, 10:05:30 AM: Hi G-man

Thanks for advising.

Have tried searching with a few key words but no posts turned up.

FYI have recently had some companies round to quote:

* Due to recent legislation about gas flue length/angle, they all advise (for my flat at least) that electric boiler is the only solution.
* Quotes vary from £3.8k to £5.2k which when you consider the boiler as the largest single cost is approx £1k inc vat then the labour element appears extortionate for 3 days work!
* Other materials would be no more than another £1k at worst, leaving approx £2k labour for the week, roughly equivalent to £100k per year salary. What the hell? Pure greed!
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: Peter De La Mare on June 27, 2017, 09:47:30 PM: Rob Dent has done many boiler replacements on the estate, give him a call, he may have already done one in a property with the same layout as yours.

http://www.virginia-quay.org/Forum/index.php?topic=986.0
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: G-Man on June 28, 2017, 08:51:41 PM: steven electric boiler costs not more than 2500 to 3000 gbp
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: Robert Dent Heating on June 29, 2017, 05:50:34 PM: Hi I've already broken down the total of cost of my installation (£2800.00 ) but can happily supply you with a detailed quote .. kind regards rob
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Post by: star360 on July 20, 2017, 08:37:02 PM: Hi, Keston boilers will do the job also, they are gas and will comply with regs. So its should be a swap out rather than new fit out.
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: JN on May 03, 2018, 10:07:02 PM: Hi steved
Did u finally went with a gas or eletric boiler?
Cheers
dave
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: steved on June 12, 2018, 11:42:10 AM: Update:
Advertised the job on www.mybuilder.com. Very efficient site and easy to use. Highly recommend. 5 tradesmen replied wanting to quote. I chose 3 based on their customers reviews.
2 turned up to quote. 1 didn't turn up and never answered my texts.
1 of the 2 quotes was very basic, headline price no details.
The other quote was brilliantly detailed with breakdowns of materials, labour and VAT. Also discussed the difficulty of flues in much detail.
I chose him for the detail and very competitive quote £2.2k incl vat for a new gas boiler. (Electric was £3k and higher running costs).
He starts on 21st June.
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: star360 on July 05, 2018, 05:38:50 PM: Did this get fitted OK? All running fine now?
Title: Re: Swap gas boiler to electric?
Post by: steved on October 09, 2018, 11:19:45 AM: New boiler is working well and should save some money as only paying for the hot water used rather than storing it in a cylinder.
A little disappointed in the fitter though as he strongly complained to me about my attempt to negotiate on price! Has anyone ever seen a poor heating engineer?
A cold tap in en-suite started dripping continuously immediately after the job was completed. The fitter advised me that the increased pressure from the boiler caused this. I still have doubts!
After giving him 6 dates to return to fix it, which he ignored, I have had to give up and am now looking for a plumber to change a tap for me as it is in a very difficult place under the sink.