Boiler cost

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To remove old (25 year old )boiler, hot water cylinder and tanks in loft. Put in new combi into upstairs cupboard (where cylinder currently is), pipe work going out of house and back in. One days work, 3 plumbers. £3.5k.
Does this sound extortionate?

That doesn’t sound too bad. A few years ago a whole system with new rads would have been that but everything has gone up.

thats kind of what I was thinking, everything has gone up massively from when I last got a boiler (6 years ago), think that was about 1.5k but was just exchanging like for like. No moving and fiddling around.

Sounds reasonable unless you have a personal recommendation might still be worth getting a couple of quotes.

We’ve just paid 3.3K for the same, Worcester boiler. In south east. Think your quote is reasonable😊

Sounds about right.

But can they just leave the tanks in loft? That's what my engineer did as they were a pain to get out.

He also realised once he started that he didn't need to go outside and then in with the pipes which I was really happy about.

They are really good, they have fixed a lot of issues the last plumber caused 🙄

I just worry sometimes that I get charged single woman rates!

I’m not actually sure how they will get the tanks out of the loft tbh! Tiny loft hatch. Do they take them apart up there?

They will empty them and leave them up there I expect

Well the quote says they will be removed from loft? But really I don’t mind either way

They might want to remove them in order to sell for scrap?

Our guy drained them all (water was turned off for the day) & then cut them up to get them out of the loft. For some reason we had 2 🤷‍♀️

Is there a reason you are not swapping like for like? It is an advantage to have a hot water tank with an immersion as a back up hot water supply.

We don’t have an immersion so would need to have one put in. Cylinder and all pipe work is really old so would need replacing too.
I thought combi boilers were more economical?

I don't know. I would be interested to hear how you get on with it all though, as I have a similar aged boiler and tank and am putting off getting it all replaced.

If your house is a suitable size a combi boiler is the best bet. Boilers don’t go wrong often and immersion heaters are a bit crap unless they put the larger ones in.

Just about to pay a similar amount for ours. Getting a combi because we're converting the loft and need to get rid of the tanks.

I think that is a pretty good price considering all the stuff they are doing. They may leave the tanks, but just getting the water cylinder out and installing the boiler in its place is a pretty big job compared to just replacing the boiler, because you will not only have to put the boiler in but also drill a new hole for the flue and also deal with the condensate.

Combi boilers are cheaper for hot water because they only actually heat the water you need rather than heating up a whole tank at once.

Downside is that if you need lots of hot water at once then they may not deliver it all. And it takes longer for the water to start running hot after you turn the hot tap on, which isn't great if you need a short burst of hot water for doing stuff like washing your hands - some of the newer boilers have a preheat function to help out with this.

I used to live in a place with a combi boiler. Shower was fine - but if you turned on the kitchen hot tap at the same time it would drop in temperature a lot.

It's really only an issue if you have multiple hot water using things going on simultaneoulsy (like two showers at once). Otherwise it's fine.

We’ve just been quoted 4.1k for similar (but we have two tanks and they’re adding temperature gauges to all rads etc too). South east and a firm we’ve used and trusted for years. It’s a really decent amount of work and summer is a good time to be doing it.