Selling house, 20 year old boiler?

[Haggisman]

If you were in the process of buying a house which had a 20 year old (albeit working) boiler, would you consider that it required replacement and try to negotiate the price down on that basis? If so, how much would you expect to knock off?

We're considering a newer more efficient boiler and wondering if the financials add up. Our current one is ~15 years old, and we will most likely be moving in 4-5 years, probably not long enough to recoup the costs in fuel savings, but if potential buyers are going to try to knock a few k off to replace it then that obviously has some bearing on it

 

[Haggisman]

Fair enough, thanks for the replies - have to confess it wasn't something we considered as FTB when buying this place, other than checking it worked and had been serviced recently. Will keep getting it's annual service and look at replacing if it dies a death

 

[Haggisman]

Hmm, some interesting points on both sides, that hasnt really helped

Thanks for the inputs though, I think i'm leaning towards the side of keeping up with the annual servicing and replacing if/when it does become uneconomical to repair/get parts

 

[Haggisman]

What a random first post/necro...

For anyone interested, we replaced the boiler last November because it was barely getting warm any more