Repair or Replace?

When you’re suffering from a faulty boiler, the age old question often arises. To replace or to repair?

There’s many factors that need to be taken into account when making this decision.

How old is my boiler?

How reliable has my boiler been?

How expensive is it to repair my broken boiler?

How much will a new boiler cost me?

The boiler being old, isn’t always a reason to replace, especially if you’ve been able to rely on it in years gone past. A younger boiler, isn’t always a reason to attempt a repair. 

In experience, the bigger factor would be the cost of the repair weighed up against the cost of a new boiler installation, then taking into account the average life left in the boiler, and the potential warranties offered by manufacturers.

As an example, you could have a 15 year old boiler requiring a £20 part like a temperature sensor, or an 8 year old boiler, no longer under warranty, needing a £700 heat exchanger.

There’s no right or wrong answer to this, and your gas engineer should be assessing it on a case by case basis and giving you the best advice for the situation your faulty boiler has left you in. 

A good gas engineer will be well versed in the art of boiler and central heating fault finding and won’t jump at the opportunity to suggest a new boiler the minute there’s any sign of a fault. Having extensive experience in fault finding will allow them to offer you the best solution for your boiler issues.

When a new boiler is advised, it’s always worth making sure that a new boiler will definately solve any heating issues you may have, a new boiler will not solve any existing defects on pipework, controls or radiators and these would need to be rectified to solve your heating issues.

Should you need any clear and honest advice in any of the locations we cover, please feel free to contact us.