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Just had a new worcester bosch. 1000 combi boiler to replace 18yr old vokera. No problems with new boiler.
Enquiring about yearly maintenance / safety check and service i £19.00. per month, £228 one off yearly payment. It includes parts and labour if needed.
As new boiler is under warranty parts and labour etc do i really need a maintenance contract for the year. Seem £228 is rather expensive for a safety check and if parts are needed it should be covered by warrany/guarantee. I would call out engineer at each anniversary.
 
bullfinch said:
Just had a new worcester bosch. 1000 combi boiler to replace 18yr old vokera. No problems with new boiler.
Enquiring about yearly maintenance / safety check and service i £19.00. per month, £228 one off yearly payment. It includes parts and labour if needed.
As new boiler is under warranty parts and labour etc do i really need a maintenance contract for the year. Seem £228 is rather expensive for a safety check and if parts are needed it should be covered by warrany/guarantee. I would call out engineer at each anniversary.
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According to 'Moneysupermarket', the average cost of a boiler 'service' in the UK in 2022 was £80. Vaillant currently quote £70 - £120, and British Gas £99 for their prepaid annual service.
It is normally cheaper to sign up to an annual service than pay ad-hoc - your quote seems expensive in comparison to the above.
If you plan to call out an engineer annually you'll be paying their ad-hoc call out fee and service charge , which will surely be more than the sums above.
 
You can check the length of the boiler guarantee / warranty here:

Warranties and guarantees | Worcester Bosch

With a guarantee, you’re covered for any parts, labour, and call-out fees. Find out the difference between a warranty and a guarantee.
www.worcester-bosch.co.uk

it'll probably be between 5 and 10 years depending who did the install and what was installed.

I've never come across an 'insurance policy' type service arrangements that didn't look like a rip-off to me. Get a building society account and put the £228 into it annually and use that to pay for the ca £90/year a decent independent Bosch approved engineer will charge for an annual service/check in a 'medium price' area of the country. By the time your Boiler warranty runs out you'll have enough saved to buy a new one.

I can only speak for this part of the world but the Bosch Service engineers who deal with the boiler repairs are excellent: knowledgeable, big stock of on-board spares, well-trained, fast and clean workers.

Oh, and expect any insurance-based scheme to have all sorts of exclusions in the small print that they'll argue allow them to decide what is or, more likely, is not covered...
 
Would never have an insurance on a brand new boiler with warranty

Phone up Worcester with your serial number and enquire to the warranty status and get a local engineer to service it was a filter fitted to the boiler return eg adey magna clean etc as this means it has a min warranty of 5 years

And as above worse case have a bank account for boiler repairs after the warranty
 

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