When do you know if it's time for a new boiler?

[MotherOfRatios]

Just bought my first home there's no issue with the boiler. The heating works fine, hot water is fine all the upstairs the water could be hotter, but it's definitely hot downstairs. All in all it's fine but I'm having a new kitchen fitted and the kitchen fitter suggested replacing the boiler just because it is 10 years old I'm just wondering if it makes sense to you or not and how do you know if you need a new boiler?

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Hope it goes ok today, OP. Your current one looks like a Worcester Bosch (which is what we have). Do you mind me asking what's wrong with it? Ours is 15 years old.

We're hoping to get a new kitchen as well. Just had our boiler serviced and as pipework was new 15 years ago, our engineer said he could easily replace in same location easily off existing pipes without any damage to new kitchen (other than the odd mark on the wall when working/getting it into place as it's a tight corner squeeze. However, makes me think.

10 years is maybe old for a crap quality boiler. IMO a WB should be fine at that age.

I guess if you are having a lot of pipework done and other work on the gas done at the same time then it might make sense to replace it as you might get a reduced labour charge on the job.

My old one became too expensive to fix, case of just throwing good money after bad. Mine's over 10 years, doing well.

It broke Monday apparently it was the fan and I couldn't be bothered to replace so I just got a new one