In message , Andy Hall
writes
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 10:33:51 GMT, Mark Trotman
wrote:



Are there any
advantages of buying a system from British Gas

None at all. They simply charge a lot of money for a system and
there is no guarantee of a better job. They sweeten it by giving
two years of "maintenance", which in practice is not worth having.

or would I be better off
just getting a local Corgi man in?


Probably.
Look for Heating Engineers though and then as part of the selection
process ask for references.

Just a thought, phone up your local area authority and find out who they
use for council housing.

They should have filtered out the cowboys and have a reliable, fairly
efficient company. Whether you can get a good deal, and whether their
response time would be acceptable when they have a significant work
load, I don't know, try it and find out. It must at least be better than
picking a company who probably have their pet source of references.
--
geoff