Uneconomical Repair.

[SimonG]

Well, yesterday, called out to a worcester heatslave oil combi. 1992, bad condition, nobody has really looked at it for the last 3 years. Wanted a rake of parts but I didn't have a honeywell diverter or expansion vessel on the van, ordered them up though and picked up this morning.

I was there nearly three hours. Back on Friday as the new diverter was goosed but left it on to give the customer (tenant) hot water.

To get the thing going it had to have fitted:-

Motor
Photocell
High Limit Stat
Flow Switch
Diverter
Circuit Board
Clock (2nd hand, one of the old rectangular ones)
Expansion Vessel

So totted it all up (without motor and high limit) and sharp got to over 500 with the labour, now nearer 700. Asked the tenant to give the landlord a ring, told him to sit down and went through it. Funny but he wasn't that surprised. Right o how much for a new one, I said I did a straight in and out at the beginning of the year and it was just over 3000. Fix it was the response.

Sorry but spending 700 on a boiler that's on it's last legs (rusted to hell, pump knocking, evidence of water leaks everywhere) is not very bright in my books.


What the hell though, might get to change it in the next 6 months on top of the repair

 

[Barry98]

They tend to think just short term

 

[SimonG]

Aye, and the customer is always right

 

[diamondgas]

Landlords eh!!! I tend to mention to them that the first repair is the start but I don't know where it may end in regards visits and parts costs! Lay it on thick if I reccon the boiler is beyond ecomomical repair!

 

[mfgs]

I had a call about a year ago a worcester 240 I think it was, needed a diverter,pcb and a expansion vessel. I advised them to replace it as it was in a bit of a state. They went for the repair. Sure enough I get a call a couple months ago as the boiler has a leak, turned out to be the heat exchanger so replaced the boiler this time.

 

[stevetheplumber]

trouble is after spending several hundred on a repair some landlords think your going to guarantee it for ever

 

[Leo21]

Landlords are a different breed. I some times wonder wether they would live in the houses they rent out. And they always plead poverty and expect the cheapest boilers to last.

 

[peteheat]

Landlords are a different breed. I some times wonder wether they would live in the houses they rent out. And they always plead poverty and expect the cheapest boilers to last.

They are the same the world over, I reckon it's a DNA thing because it does take a certain breed to be a landlord.

Only problem I see with the above is the supplier will most of the money unless Simon has a few parts in stock from old boilers.

Oh for the days when I spent £20.00 on fittings and charged out £700.00, we had it good and didn't know it.