Old boiler condemned on service, do I repair or get a new one?

dpbadger

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Had BG round on the yearly boiler service and they have condemned it due to two rubber flue bits perishing. The boiler is a 12 year old Keston Qudos 28s the official part is obsolete but can be bought online for about £80 including delivery. Fitting would be extra. Now as it is old do you think I should just replace the whole boiler for a new one as a straight swap? My reasoning is its getting old and more bits will break etc.
 
Sounds like a cheap enough repair to keep it going for now. At 12 years old it’s certainly getting towards replacement age, but not the worst. I’d keep it going a little longer until it throws up a bigger repair bill.
 
I would be careful of anyone saying you need a new boiler because of regulations. Most boilers can keep on going almost indefinitely if repaired, even if they don't meet all of the current regulations. Certainly a 12 year old boiler is new as far as I am concerned!
 
I've sent some images to a local Gas engineer and he's going to get back to me. The others I called where either fully booked or didn't answer, not surprising at this time of year.

These are the rubber bits that have perished.


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I guess the issue may be, looking at the photos, whether you're allowed such "easy" solutions any more. As someone inclined to try and fix everything with WD-40 (probably not on a boiler) and gaffer tape (probably also not on a boiler) I may not be the right person to have an opinion though. However I'm partial to a jubilee clip, because my Grandad seemed to fix everything with them in the 70s!
 
I know 4 clips to unscrew and a bit of jiggling. The hard bit is actually getting the actual spares as loads of places say obsolete or unavailable. I looked on the Keston site and cross checked with gas safe and found an engineer near me and I'll see what he says. I'm still waiting for BG to speak to me and do a video quote for a new boiler. If its fixable I'm going to ring them to still come out and service it. I'm under the Homecare 2 plan which if your boiler has obsolete official parts, it isn't worth the bother as they won't work on it. Only use is getting a service or covering the rads and other bits.
 
The local engineer I spoke to said about £280 to supply and fix this. He hasn't replied with when he is coming yet.

Strangely when I was coming back into my building a different Boiler company was just putting in a replacement Keston in a different flat. He said I could have the old one (exactly same model as mine) he said the board and pump and all things on it are fine so I'm going to strip the parts off it for any future breakdown of mine.
 
dpbadger said:
The local engineer I spoke to said about £280 to supply and fix this. He hasn't replied with when he is coming yet.

Strangely when I was coming back into my building a different Boiler company was just putting in a replacement Keston in a different flat. He said I could have the old one (exactly same model as mine) he said the board and pump and all things on it are fine so I'm going to strip the parts off it for any future breakdown of mine.
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Did you not offer him £100 cash to fix yours for you?
 
dLockers said:
It is definitely fixable; BG are just rinsing you on both the HomeCare and the recommendation.

Give a local HEATING ENGINEER a call and see what they can do for you.
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PhD required for install bro!

Must submit a thesis on how to rip people off. Extra points for hitting high notes when sucking through teeth before providing quotes pulled out their rear end.
 
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