Am I being ripped off...? Heating & Plumbing Quote

[SimonG]

Just a thought, are you absolutely dead set on losing the DHW cylinder? My Mum bought a renovated house where they had done this and the mains water pressure is so bad that she now just has a dribble out of her shower. She really regrets the fact the builder ripped out the DHW cylinder.

I have also stayed in numerous properties over the years that had combi-boilers and the systems just don't seem as good, i.e. having a shower when someone flushes a loo in the downstairs WC and the pressure drops or temp rises, then you're fiddle-4rsing around with the controls going "ow ow ow", then the WC finishes filling, the pressure returns and you end up freezing your nads off, more fiddling and swearing. Just a bl00dy PITA if you ask me, so if you get a chance to keep the cylinder I would!

Just my own personal experience, I'm sure they're fine if correctly installed, or the water pressure is sufficient.

Why would you let a 'builder' rip out a cylinder?

 

[fronty]

Why would you let a 'builder' rip out a cylinder?

Just a figure of speech, had all been done before she even found the house.

 

[sammathias]

That quote is so vague....is the whole heating system being repipe or just altered?? There's a difference between a £50 programmable stat and a £200 one... What make model is being installed, same with trvs... £6 ones or £25+. Magnetic filter being installed? That's another £100, gas pipe upgrade? So on.

 

[Stigster]

Just a thought, are you absolutely dead set on losing the DHW cylinder?
Just a bl00dy PITA if you ask me, so if you get a chance to keep the cylinder I would!

Just my own personal experience, I'm sure they're fine if correctly installed, or the water pressure is sufficient.

I wholeheartedly agree. I have always seen a combi as something to use when you absolutely have no room for a cylinder or in a small single bathroom place. In my humble opinion they are fitted inappropriately in a huge number of cases as an easy option. I would never get rid of a cylinder if there was already one in place. I would upgrade to unvented or replace the cylinder with a newer more efficient one if the old one was ropey but I would never recommend getting rid of one. You already have the space so use it!

 

[gingalig]

I wholeheartedly agree. I have always seen a combi as something to use when you absolutely have no room for a cylinder or in a small single bathroom place. In my humble opinion they are fitted inappropriately in a huge number of cases as an easy option. I would never get rid of a cylinder if there was already one in place. I would upgrade to unvented or replace the cylinder with a newer more efficient one if the old one was ropey but I would never recommend getting rid of one. You already have the space so use it!

Viessmann storage combi, Great bits of kit.
The price seems pretty good, bit to tell without looking is pretty impossible.

 

[malx42]

I totally agree with keeping the cylinder if you can. If the cylinder is in the middle of the house it can supply the taps with fairly short pipe runs. If you have a combi boiler in the wrong place you might have a very long pipe run through plastic pipe and a low rate of water flow.

 

[fronty]

Interested in the OP's thoughts on this discussion now?

 

[Chuck]

Interested in the OP's thoughts on this discussion now?

Since they haven't been seen on the forum since Wednesday my guess is we'll never know...

 

[SimonG]

Maybe didn't like the responses!

 

[SJB060685]

Maybe didn't like the responses!

It’s takes years for people like us to get to the level we are. All you guys have done is answer his questions and give your opinion lol.

 

[Lee Davies]

Impossible to answer, literally.
The only part we could answer sensibly is the parts and labour prices

Let's say you told us he is charging you £1,500 for the boiler, then we can say yes that is a good price.
If he is charging you £80 an hour in Kent which is capped at £400 per day then that is also fair.

What we cannot see is the length of pipe runs, cost of smaller items such as TRV's, Room Stats/Programmers, Brand of radiators etc.

All the listed things can vary immensely such as a cheap £8 TRV to a nice £84.99 smart TRV, see where I am going here, 10 cheap ones would be £80 and 10 fancy ones would be £849.99, massive range there.