On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:51:41 +0100, Alan wrote:

In message , Phil L
wrote

Condensing boilers use less gas than non condensing, meaning lower bills for
you

What is the actual saving? I get the impression that the hype on the
savings is comparing a modern boiler with something installed 30 years
ago and took two men and a crane to lift on to the wall.

Would an average household run a condensing boiler in the most efficient
way and is a low water content boiler of, say, 15 years age that much
less inefficient?

As a landlord is replacing the boiler the OP will not directly have the
installation charge but how long is the break even pay-back (extra cost
of boiler plus maintenance over lower gas costs)?

This is not really the issue. The landlord owns the property and from time
to time big and nasty replacements and renovations will need to take
place i.e Boiler, Roof, Wiring, Kitchen.

The decision to replace the boiler is based on not just on removing the
cost of sending in someone to keep applying first aid. There is the hassle
to the owner and the hassle to the tenant or to a prospective future
tenant. Then there is the possibility that the tenant becomes so
exasperated with the heating that they wish to enforce the Landlord in
his/her duty to 'keep the property in good repair' at least as it was at
the beginning of the tenancy.

It may well be that this boiler was economically repairable
but the nettle would have to be grasped sooner or later.



I wonder in the case of the OP the cost of repair is a £5 thermocouple
and not a boiler costing hundreds of times more?
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