On Friday evening i received a phone call from a customer in Rothwell near where I live.
The customer said he had someone else out in the week to look at his boiler as it wasn’t working.
The other company had replaced a couple of parts which didn’t work and had told the customer that rather than carry on replacing costly parts that might not work it may be a good idea to replace the boiler (at a cost of over £2000)
We decided i should go look the following day (Saturday) and give the customer a second opinion, and if needed a quote for a new boiler.
So Saturday morning I arrived at the property, stripped down and looked at the boiler. Immediately i knew what was the problem. Having worked on this type of boiler a lot over the years i could tell straight away that the part required was a spark generator so i gave them a quote of a total price of £100 to fix the problem.
When talking to the customer i asked what the previous engineer had done?
He had replaced the Master Printed Circuit board and the spark electrode.
Now I’m not sure what this cost the customer as i didn’t like to ask but I’m guessing at over the £300 mark.
The boilers fit on this in-particular estate are known for been poor, so this boiler will probably need replacing in a couple of years time. But after a discussion with the customer we felt that it was worth it for £100 to repair which could last a few more years before having to bite the bullet.
so…………
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