heating engineer bill

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BUDFORCE

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Just checking because this seems like a lot but...

The expansion relief valve on our hot water tank (we have and oil fired boiler) was faulty/leaking and hot water was leaking out the overflow.

We got a local boiler guy (my wife knows his wife) we have used him once before to change over a pressure guage that had blown, that time he charged us £20.

Anyway, this time, to replace that expansion relief valve, we now have an invoice for £280.

Looking on various online sites even the most expensive version of that part I can find is around £80 (unless I am looking at the wrong thing?) but most seem to be about £30, seems like a lot of money we have been billed?
 
Maccapacca said:
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Lol fair but we were not even in the house when he did it, we needed to nip out on my lunch break (I work from home) and gave him the key!

Dangerous Dave said:
Sounds like it's an unvented hot water cylinder. Unlikely that the pressure release valve failed on it's own did he replace any other parts or re-pressure the expansion tank/air bubble ?

I would expect the pressure release valve activated due to a faulty expansion tank/bubble, faulty pressure reducing valve or a leaking mixer value either shower or tap which can allow higher pressure cold water to mix back if a pressure reducing valve wasn't fitted to the cold water supply.
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K literally not going to pretend I really know what you are talking about but he didn't change anything else. I note filling the bath tub for my 1 year old son the water looks slightly cloudy since though.

We do have an expansion tank down in the garage near the boiler, red thing, so you are probably correct in that it's a closed system.
 
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Dangerous Dave said:
Red vessel will be for your heating an unvented cyclinder would use a white vessel or if a Megaflo they won't have one but use an air bubble in the main tank for expansion as the water is heated up.

If it is an unvented cylinder parts can be expensive on my cylinder the pressure reducing valve and pressure relief valve are one part and the cheapest I can see it for is £130. You also need additional qualifications to work on unvented cylinders known as G3.

As above I would ask for breakdown on the invoice.
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Yes. It's a megaflow that uses a bubble as the expansion.
 
Yea fair enough, I mean it is what it is, I will of course pay it, it's just he's sort of a friend of a friend and whilst I would not expect any kind of mates rates, I certainly would not expect to get charged over the odds.

I have asked for an itemised invoice but if it turns out he is just expensive, fine thats his right, I'll just never use him again.

They replied just now funnily enough, they reckon the part was £215.

Cold water combi valve apparently.
 
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