On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 14:58:48 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:


I totally agree. I've never had a service contract or paid for an extended
warranty etc, and never regretted it.

A bit more than 20 years ago I had a new boiler installed and asked
the installer, a one-man operator, about service. 'I wouldn't bother'
he replied. So I didn't, and thanks to comments on here, I changed the
circuit board myself when that went a few years later - Potterton
Suprima. And it's still going strong.
(But I'm quite sure that the installer scammed me when he said a
replacement pressure vave wasn't obtainable for the previousl boiler,
but I wasalready receptive to the notion of changing it.)