In article ,
Theo wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
The houses on this estate were built in 1973 with gas backboilers, mine
was replaced by a cast-iron boiler before I bought it. Several
neighbours have fitted a condensing combi, and had to replace tem
already, my lump soldiers on ...

approx 11,000 kWh/year of gas, which covers heating and hot water of a 3
bed semi, at 2.7p/kWh that's £311/year ... where's the sense in
replacing it?

This one suffered from being under a British Gas service plan, and hence
lots of sucking of teeth and 'ye cannae get the parts anymore', and
eventually they refused to cover it.

Our Village Hall boiler failed and the BG fitter hasd the usual "can't get
the parts". Using Yellow Pages (this was a few years ago) I found an
independant 'gas man'. He looked used his mobile "George have you got and
XX for a YY boiler?" "OK, I'll pick it up later today". We got another 5
years' life out of the boiler and never went near BG again. Currently we
have a service contract with the boiler manufacturer.

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