Riello burner pump question

[SimonG]

£150.00 now plus postage.

Can you see a pattern?

 

[rpm]

#3
Say`s so you can do it yourself!

Somebody close this thread.

 

[steve1]

Just admit, your fitting it yourself.!

Hope you save enough to buy a flue gas analyser, so it can be set up without killing your family.

I haven't got a problem with fitting it myself, it's not a difficult job, but for safety reasons I wouldn't do it.
I'll leave it at that for now, thread seems to be going a bit off course.

 

[Best]

It can be an easy job to replace the pump, particularily if you have replaced loads of them before.
But you usually also need to replace the oil hose(s), as they leak if touched.
Then you need to set the oil pump pressure using a pressure gauge to whatever the burner is set up for your particular home.
Then you need to use an analyser to set the combustion.
Then check that all joints dry.
You could just bung a new oil pump in & maybe you get lucky & the boiler works okay, but I bet the air setting & oil pressure mix is wrong & you will, perhaps unknowingly, be using too much oil. Or at worst you will create a danger with fumes.
Should be at least £60 for an engineer to do it.

 

[MarkOil]

I can post one for £180 inc postage
But seriously, if you are doing this yourself, just replace the stem to fix the leak, that you can do without setting combustion etc. But for the pump, call another engineer and ask how much a fuel pump would be, then you can challenge price and get a pro to fit.
Do not replace the pump yourself because saving £30 is not worth it.

 

[lame plumber]

here we go here we go here we gooooooooooo. labour charges already inflated!, its more than I can source one for! I dont mind if cost are reasonable (but I still dont want to pay those either). All in all you hate paying someone to repair something you know nothing about but feel it all costs too much and we must be ripping you off adding 20% and ffs labour at £70 an hour, how can you possibly justify that lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala.................................you try running a oil servicing repair business, then you would have a reasonable right to comment but you pop on here asking for free advice and at the same time accuse the tradesman of being overpriced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bunker]

Id charge £150 plus vat to supply and fit a Riello pump. If anyone wanted to supply the item themselves I wouldnt touch the job. This is not because I want the mark up, its because I want to be responsible for my work from parts to labour.

 

[Best]

This reminds me of a replacement Riello oil pump job I was asked to do by a customer for his brother.
When I immediately rang his brothers home & told them I would come & sort it, the mans wife said, no, we don't want you to fit it, we just want you to supply the oil pump! Then she asked what the Riello pump price was. When I told her, she said they would give me less (a rounded up figure of actually about over £3 less than what it cost me)! Then it got worse, the husband came on and told me to deliver it to their house, which is at least 5 miles away. He told me I would know the house because of the 3 cars outside it, Audi, etc.

 

[Dotty]

This reminds me of a replacement Riello oil pump job I was asked to do by a customer for his brother.
When I immediately rang his brothers home & told them I would come & sort it, the mans wife said, no, we don't want you to fit it, we just want you to supply the oil pump! Then she asked what the Riello pump price was. When I told her, she said they would give me less (a rounded up figure of actually about over £3 less than what it cost me)! Then it got worse, the husband came on and told me to deliver it to their house, which is at least 5 miles away. He told me I would know the house because of the 3 cars outside it, Audi, etc.

What point did you hang up on them?

 

[Best]

What point did you hang up on them?

His brother lives near me & is very decent, so I dropped a new Riello pump into him & got a couple of pounds more than it cost me. The people promised that they would get me out sometime in the future to service & set the burner up. That must be a year or two now & I am still waiting. Miserable people. :smile:

 

[Lou]

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