So bought house last year. Boiler is at end of garden, oil fired central heating system. House was bought from a local plumber so assumed all was ok. Was told boiler was recently installed. Ran out of oil at weekend so when system was switched back on it wouldn't work. Called out heating engineer who said it was probably air in pipes. However he found whole raft of problems with boiler including fact it was running off test switch as was incorrectly wired and that cabling was unsafe. It should be proper armoured cabling, mine was not. boiler is against fence, there is no way to service boiler in current position and the condensing pipe is not correctly sited. There is also no fire valve shut off in boiler. All in all will cost about 600 to 1000 to fix as need to move boiler and run new cabling. Original owner not even registered with oftec to fit these kind of boilers. Is there any way I can get money out of him through small claims? I am furious as each time there is a problem with the plumbing it turns out that he has done a cowboy job that costs me loads to sort. When we moved in I found he had hooked up a gas hob to a red propane cylinder in the kitchen which again was completely unsafe. Any ideas as to how I can get the money to sort out making boiler safe.