New central heating system costs

[gleegeek]

Hi.
We're needing our whole boiler/pipes/radiators replacing and have just had a couple of quotes which have left us a wee bit overwhelmed!
Has anybody had this done recently? We're in the southeast, 3 bed victorian semi. The quotes were both between £7 and 8 grand which was a bit more than we were expecting.
We have another heating company coming next week...
Thanks in advance

I bought my house last year, I had a new boiler and full central heating system and all plumbing including bathroom towel radiator.
4 storey terraced 'townhouse'
Cost 3.5k for everything, parts and labour, so that seems excessive but where abouts are you? I'm in Yorkshire so maybe cheaper

Thanks for that. We're in the southeast outside the m25 so I would expect a bit more but double??? Seems a lot...

Yea that's why I was moved to comment, i would expect you to pay a little more for the area but double seems off?
I had a few quotes too very similar, so it wasn't a weirdly low price here!

We recently had it put into a 3-bed, 2-bath townhouse and it cost us $6,000 AUD. Your quotes seem well above what you should be expecting to pay. Double the cost is absurd.

We had a new boiler, 13 new radiators, old rank and back boiler boiler removed but kept most old pipework. It was £5.5k in a pricey sw area

We were quoted £8k by British gas. Have you had a local gas safe registered plumber quote?

Tank not rank. Though the tank was quite rank

My DH is a gas engineer self employed and works for British Gas 2 days a week. He just said 4K job maximum with a decent boiler.

Thank you all so much for your replies! I know we live in an expensive area but we're really struggling and can't really afford more than about £5000. The 2 quotes we had were local gas safe plumbers - I dread to think what British Gas would be
It's so much to spend on a necessity - it's not like I can show off a beautiful new boiler or lovely radiators!
Never buy an old house and not have the money to do it up!!!

Where do you actually live if you don't mind me asking?

It's British gas, they are a rip off! We had them come over to price up a new boiler, water tank and hot water tank (??) and move the boiler into the loft- £8.5k! I actually laughed at him! We are in a 2 bed terrace in Kent.

Going to get a local company come in and see the difference