I'm hoping so too - although I suspect by the middle of October it might be hoping for too much that we haven't had the first frost of the autumn. Might have to get a cheap radiator thing if it doesn't to warm the rooms up a bit for a little while each day - at least the house being a fairly new (only built 8.5 years ago) has decent insulation.
Good job you can get a free boiler even if you do have to wait. Fingers crossed you don't get too bad weather before then. Those oil filled radiators are a useful stop gap if it gets too cold.
My old boiler conked out on the 23rd December 2011. I got through that winter with no heating, thanks to 2 radiators and my immersion heater. I eventually got a pay out on some PPI I'd paid on a credit card and got my new boiler in October last year. They sorted it in 2 days, but there was a lot of work to do. Best money I've ever spent, was so nice having a warm house again.
What a rotten time for a boiler to pack up, 2011 was a pretty cold winter too as well. If it gets cold I might have to see about getting a radiator or two as well. The convection heaters are cheaper, but I don't like the hot, dry air of them.
I know what you mean about PPI, that's the only reason I've now got a fence between my garden and the neighbours and one less loan to pay back and a working laptop. I've still got to chase up some more of it actually.
Again the American in me is jealous of the government program. Here if your heat gives out? It's just our own problem. I don't even think homeowner's insurance would cover something like that.
The government here have only just started offering it within the last year or so, and most people don't qualify - you have to be on a low income (less than £15,000 a year total household income) in receipt of certain benefits, have a boiler that is already broken, the boiler must be older than a certain age and of an inefficient model, and you must either have a child, be a pensioner. If I earned just a few more pence an hour I wouldn't be able to have got it
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That's a lot of restrictions. It would be really bad if your boiler broke in the middle of a really bad cold spell :( A lot of suburban/city homes here don't have fireplaces so if your heating system goes, you're completely screwed. During the Hurricane here, when the power was out for days it meant a lot of people also didn't have heat. They were warning people about hypothermia and frostbite.
If it broke and you were able to use the scheme you could ask your gas supplier to repair it, but it could be a few hundred pounds for a repair, and there would still be a call out fee even if it turned out they couldn't fix it. A new boiler if you were buying it outright would be about £2500 or you could get one of the gas supplier to install a new one on one of their scheme, but you end up paying about £25 a month for 15 years if you did, which isn't good as it's doubtful the boiler would last that long without packing up
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My old boiler conked out on the 23rd December 2011. I got through that winter with no heating, thanks to 2 radiators and my immersion heater. I eventually got a pay out on some PPI I'd paid on a credit card and got my new boiler in October last year. They sorted it in 2 days, but there was a lot of work to do. Best money I've ever spent, was so nice having a warm house again.
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I know what you mean about PPI, that's the only reason I've now got a fence between my garden and the neighbours and one less loan to pay back and a working laptop. I've still got to chase up some more of it actually.
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Again the American in me is jealous of the government program. Here if your heat gives out? It's just our own problem. I don't even think homeowner's insurance would cover something like that.
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Hope your home warms up soon!!
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