Mike4 wrote:Howard, that's a shame. BG (or any of the large companies) will have you believe any boiler more than half an hour old is inefficient, gobbles gas, is hard to get parts for and in dire need of replacement. Rarely is this true as you have found.
Thing is, their sales department employ gas registered technicians as their lead generators. They arrive ostensibly to service your boiler, but their primary goal is to find something wrong with it and label it up as dangerous and send a saleman around to quote for a new one. If they can't manage to condemn it then they scare you with stories about how you can't get the parts and its wasting gas and guess what, you should let them send a bloke around to quote you for a new one....
Cynical? Moi?
No, you are not cynical. The British Gas system of service contracts seems to ensure that unnecessary work is carried out, usually leading to s subsequent event requiring a call out. Modern gas boilers only need attention when they go wrong, in my experience. Experience of others who have regular servicing leads me to think that British Gas are to be avoided at all costs.
TJH