Boiler not serviced before buying a property

[Hamgreeneggs]

I am not sure it matters and if I am making a mountain of a molehill, but the property I am buying has a 25 year old boiler which has not been serviced by a gas engineer. So there is no certificate or invoice. They get someone they know to look over it.

I am keen to move, so should I just suck this up as part of the buying process. It feels unfair that I should ask them to do anything with it and I knew the boiler was old when I put the offer in (but not that it had not been regularly serviced).

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We recently moved home the boiler was 22years old she said it has been serviced yearly but no evidence was given and after about 3 weeks it packed in and we had to get a new one.
I'd prepare to put a new one in and maybe see if u can adjust the buying amount to take into consideration the price for a new boiler

@AgathaRaisinDetra I hope you were joking with the suing comment hmmgrin Total nonsense

Quite, it seems that they don't have the faintest idea what they're talking about.

Sometime old boilers are not a problem (though I agree it should be serviced).

I have had to replace the boiler in every house I ever moved into but one (so 5 out of 6). The 6th boiler was at least thirty years old and enormous. It was still working perfectly when I left 8 years later. The chap who serviced it for me always said don't change it as the old boilers were much better made and there was basically nothing on it to go wrong whereas a new boiler would be more efficient but full of fancy parts to go wrong so what you gain in economy you would lose in servicing costs.

Hey, I think everyone here has given some good advice. I would get it serviced and certified before accepting anything. Dependent on house size and the pipework you already have you could be caught out paying for an entirely new system or a long string of expensive parts instead. Hope it goes well for you x

Thanks all