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Highly Efficient Boiler advice

  • 09-02-2010 1:13pm
    #1
    dts1
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭


    The gas boiler in the house has gone belly up and is beyond repair.
    Had an Engineer to confirm this who in turn recommended a Contractor.
    Said contractor called to the house and informed me of the grants available from the SEI Website under the Home Energy Saving scheme ( http://www.sei.ie/Grants/Home_Energy_Saving_Scheme/ ), of which i'm entitled to €700, when you go to install a new high efficient boiler.

    I guess i would like to know if the price he went on to quote is a ballpark figure. He quoted €2,400, this includes VAT and doesn't include the grant, so you'd be looking at €1,700.

    Is this figure about normal ?


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  • #2
    gizmo555
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,948 ✭✭✭gizmo555


    dts1 wrote: »
    The gas boiler in the house has gone belly up and is beyond repair.
    Had an Engineer to confirm this who in turn recommended a Contractor.
    Said contractor called to the house and informed me of the grants available from the SEI Website under the Home Energy Saving scheme ( http://www.sei.ie/Grants/Home_Energy_Saving_Scheme/ ), of which i'm entitled to €700, when you go to install a new high efficient boiler.

    I guess i would like to know if the price he went on to quote is a ballpark figure. He quoted €2,400, this includes VAT and doesn't include the grant, so you'd be looking at €1,700.

    Is this figure about normal ?

    Look again at the details of the grant. The €700 you mention is for a heating controls upgrade and the high efficiency boiler. The grant for the boiler is just €200 and you must do the heating controls work too, in order to be eligible for it.


  • #3
    dts1
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭dts1


    Ok thanks but i presume it's both the boiler and the heating controls we are getting for the €700


  • #4
    sinnerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    The price sounds about right for boiler only .

    "Controls" as per the SEI grant scheme involves splitting the boiler output into a min of 3 separate zones
    1. Domestic Hot Water ( sinks / showers )
    2. Rads ( or UFH ) to daytime areas
    3. Rads ( or UFH ) to nighttime time areas

    To create the 2 Rads zones means additional pipeworks which in turns in most cases means lifting floors and or breaking plasterboards . In the case of my own house ( typical 4 bed semi ) this cost amounted to almost the same cost again as the boiler . I opted for TRVs on all rads instead ( not grant assisted )

    .


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