"Timbrook99" wrote in message
om...
Finally fed up with the un-reliability of my Potterton Envoy 80
Condensing Boiler, I asked the BG chap who was fixing it (for the 3rd
time this year) what it would cost to replace.
He replied that he was aware that BG was bit dear but he thought that
they had now seen sense and could do a very simple boiler swop for a
sensible price.
His guess was that it could be done for a price which looked to me
like the full retail price for the new boiler (inc VAT) plus 75% for
labour. It seemed OK, say £800 + £600 = £1400. Dear but OK-ish,
despite the fact that BG would be charging about £600 for probably a
day's work and minimal materials, I agreed to get a quote. The
chap from BG today quoted £2370 inc VAT, net of all sorts of discounts
since I have a 3-star contract.


We had exactly the same thing. Obviously they have to charge for all the
time it takes to come up with some of the rubbish they tell you when they
quote. We eventually got it fitted by a local company for just under £1000
cheaper than BG (although to be fair I did board and put the light up in the
loft myself to save a bit of cash). Interesting thing was, the bloke who
fitted it said that they do fitting for BG and there was a fair chance that
if we'd gone with BG we'd have probably ended up with him fitting it anyway.

You have to laugh. Which I did when the BG man showed me the "powerflush"
video on his laptop...

Jon