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. Really unless you qualify for the scheme or you've not got a good income your choice are pretty much limited to being in debt or being cold.
I don't have a fireplace in my house as it's a new build, only eight and half years old, but the weather is actually unseasonably warm at the moment, it got up to 19C (66f or so) this afternoon and the weather is supposed to continue like this for at least a week.
Handily the person coming out to assess the old boiler who wasn't supposed to arrive until the 15th of October has just phone me to say had a cancellation and now he'd coming to look at it on Monday afternoon, so six days rather than three weeks time, so very pleased with that. Still don't know when the new boiler will arrive, but having assessed sooner, surely gives a chance of getting the new one before it gets too much later in the year.
Really unless you qualify for the scheme or you've not got a good income your choice are pretty much limited to being in debt or being cold.
I don't have a fireplace in my house as it's a new build, only eight and half years old, but the weather is actually unseasonably warm at the moment, it got up to 19C (66f or so) this afternoon and the weather is supposed to continue like this for at least a week.
Handily the person coming out to assess the old boiler who wasn't supposed to arrive until the 15th of October has just phone me to say had a cancellation and now he'd coming to look at it on Monday afternoon, so six days rather than three weeks time, so very pleased with that. Still don't know when the new boiler will arrive, but having assessed sooner, surely gives a chance of getting the new one before it gets too much later in the year.
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