How much do you pay for your gas boiler service?

Merlin5

Merlin5

Merlin5

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Hi guys. I paid my gas engineer £75 in 2023 and £80 in 2024 and again in 2025. He just messaged me that my Vaillant boiler service time is coming up. I asked him if it's still £80 and he says it's gone up to £95 and that Vaillant are charging £202 but he'll do it for £85. He's a good engineer but am I paying a bit too much or about right?
 
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Mine is around £75-80, used to be £60 when I started using him about 8 years ago.

Considering how the cost of everything has skyrocketed in that time, it's to be a expected that tradesmen are going to put their prices up. I'd rather pay a bit more to someone you know is doing the job correctly.
 
2Thumbs said:
Mine is around £75-80, used to be £60 when I started using him about 8 years ago.

Considering how the cost of everything has skyrocketed in that time, it's to be a expected that tradesmen are going to put their prices up. I'd rather pay a bit more to someone you know is doing the job correctly.
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Finners said:
In London I expect that is cheap.

British gas charged me £99 in November with apparently a "member" discount.
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Thanks guys. That's all I needed to know and so I'm happy to continue with him. You're right, he does the job correctly so might as well stick with him.
 
Merlin5 said:
Same as me but you don't live in London? Interesting. Maybe I have a better price than I thought.
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IMO, its a boiler service is no different from getting a plumber out even for a quick job - there is a call out charge which is normally about 1 hour labour.... £85 seems about right.
 
as above, its crept up from £65 a few years ago to around £85 this year but considering other things I'm not too fussed with the smaller increase
 
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