Col_Buendia
17-10-2005, 14:11
Well! I'm just off the phone to the bloke who came round to look at my boiler this morning. He told me this morning that I needed a new "diverter valve" and a new thermocouple. Apparently these parts were going to cost about £400, all because the boiler in my house is a shitty old Italian built thing...
After a brief search on the web, I came up with 3-4 companies offering the very same piece for under £50.
I looked up the prices of new boilers, and for the quoted "repair cost" I could buy myself a new bloody boiler!
So looks like I have narrowly avoided being royally RIPPED off by this joker :mad:
But I am stuck now with (a) a huge mistrust of names picked at random out of the yellow pages, and (b) a boiler that still needs a bit of work done on it. Can anyone recommend me someone who will do the work without trying to remove the remaining few shekels in my bank account? A PM would do, and if anyone wants to know who this person was that tried to charge me 1000% over the odds for a diverter valve, I'd be happy to PM them the details.
Send the Channel 4 film crew around now, I'm ready for them :)
After a brief search on the web, I came up with 3-4 companies offering the very same piece for under £50.
I looked up the prices of new boilers, and for the quoted "repair cost" I could buy myself a new bloody boiler!
So looks like I have narrowly avoided being royally RIPPED off by this joker :mad:
But I am stuck now with (a) a huge mistrust of names picked at random out of the yellow pages, and (b) a boiler that still needs a bit of work done on it. Can anyone recommend me someone who will do the work without trying to remove the remaining few shekels in my bank account? A PM would do, and if anyone wants to know who this person was that tried to charge me 1000% over the odds for a diverter valve, I'd be happy to PM them the details.
Send the Channel 4 film crew around now, I'm ready for them :)