Boiler installation in Costessey
Costessey is five minutes from where the van is kept, so it is the closest work we take. A lot of it is boiler replacement, because the housing here is the right age for it
Costessey in short
- From base
- About 5 minutes — travel included
- Covering
- New Costessey NR5, Old Costessey NR8, Queen’s Hills
- Price
- Written and fixed after a free survey
- Typical swap
- One day for a like-for-like combi
- Back boiler removal
- Common here, and a bigger job than a swap
- Gas work
- Certified by a Gas Safe registered engineer
What Costessey housing does to a boiler quote
The interwar and post-war stock along Dereham Road and around West End was built with a cylinder in the airing cupboard and a cold tank in the loft. Where those are still in place, a combi swap is not a like-for-like job — the tank comes out, the cylinder goes, the pipework gets reworked and the airing cupboard comes back to you. That is a different price from lifting one combi off a wall and hanging another
The other thing we meet here more than anywhere else on the patch is a capped-off back boiler behind a fireplace. Some of the interwar houses had them, and where the gas has been capped rather than the appliance removed, there is a redundant boiler sitting in the chimney breast. It needs taking out properly, and it needs pricing before the job starts rather than discovered on the first morning
Queen’s Hills and the newer estates are the opposite problem: modern, straightforward, and usually a genuine like-for-like. Those are the one-day jobs
How quickly can you get to Costessey?
Five minutes, and no travel band — Costessey sits inside the first band, so the call-out is £85 with nothing added. It is the closest patch we cover and the one we can most often reach the same morning
For a boiler installation the survey happens first and it is free. You get a written fixed price out of it, and no obligation to go ahead
How soon, and whereabouts?
The postcode is how we check we cover you
“Had an emergency leak at my place in Bowthorpe and Archie responded quickly. He replaced the boiler efficiently, explained everything clearly, and got the job done to a high standard. Really impressed with how tidy he left everything afterwards.”
Euan, Bowthorpe — on Google
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