"Hugo Nebula" wrote in message

shocked, however, at the price quoted by British Gas of
£2,700 for a Potterton Promax.

That's way over the odds, however heating engineers are in short supply at
present and they're pretty much in a position where they can exploit that to
hold their customers to ransom.

My floorstanding Potterton recently died, it had had its day, and the
installation was an obvious deathtrap. I had a hell of a job finding
somebody to replace it. A initial quote was £2600 from a fly by night cash
in hand council guy. I was later quoted £1500 plus vat by a highly regarded
CORGI registered business. They got the job!

£1900 inc. got me a new boiler (Worcester) re-siting to a cupboard at the
other end of the bungalow - The previous boiler had been on the kitchen
floor. Also included were electronic valves to modernise the pipework, a
modern flue instead of the chimneystack, and plumbing to account for the
move.

Essentially, £2700 is daylight robbery in my opinion. If it's 5 hours work,
£360 per hour seems a bit steep for fitting! http://tinyurl.com/v8hg

Andy