wimpybeaver
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Hi,
I have been reading a lot of posts on the cost of upgrading and putting in a new central heating system here and I have just got a quote for my job and I think it looks pretty high. Can anyone offer their advice on the below details.
We just moved into our new home a couple of months ago. It technically was treated as two homes (old cottage & two level extension which is 20 years old) and because of this it has two separate CHS. We live in the extension at the moment but the long term is to make it one home.
Both systems are oil and are oil range cookers/boilers that are 30+ years old with drip feed systems and no timers :-0
We got a quote to join the two systems up, remove and install a new oil condensing boiler in a coal shed (this will be the new boiler house and is attached to the house with electricity) and it came in at 7,200 excluding vat and excluding the grant. If you include the grant and VAT, its ~7500.
A more exact detail of the quote are:
Supply & fit 35kw Grant Vortex boiler
Remote firevalve & magniclean filter
Run new oil line from tank to boiler
Run 1" copper from boiler to hot-press
Run heating & hot water pipes from hot-press to cottage and lag in armoflex
Disconnect & remove hot-press in cottage
Supply & fit 300L stainless steel dual coil hot water cylinder
Re-pipe hot-press, flush heating system and fit one rad in hot-press
Fit 4 zone heating controls, controlled via 4 channel 7 day programmer, 3 digital room thermostats controlling 3 heating zones (cottage, new house downstairs, new house upstairs).
Cylinder stat controlling hot water
4 motorised valves
Replace cold water storage tank in Attic
Includes all electrical work
So this is excluding replacing radiators (except 1 new one) and excluding the solar kit too
From my research I have done some checks on equipment
Grant Vortex 35kW Boiler House Model: €1,200 Incl Vat
Flue Kit: €160 Incl VAT
300L Stainless steel dual Coil solar hot water: ~€1000
So that's the two main costs that I could see and there's a ~€5000 euro gap
I don't know the cost of copper pipes, thermostats, and valves but I'm struggling to imagine its more than another €2000 which would leave €3000 profit.
I also asked about time and I was told 4-5 days for the work.
Some other details that might help.
Will be moving current oil tank to a new place
New oil line run will be ~15 meters
New pipes to run from new boiler house to hot-press will be ~8 meters
Pipes to run from hot-press to cottage will be ~20 meters
So after reading that, do you think im being a bit too tough on the price or does that sound okay?
Oh, I live in Leinster but not Dublin so its not even a Dublin premium either
Thanks for any advice you can offer,
Wimpy
P.S. I got the new rads and the solar kit priced separately and I can include them later if anyone is interested but I want to focus on this first question ;-)
I have been reading a lot of posts on the cost of upgrading and putting in a new central heating system here and I have just got a quote for my job and I think it looks pretty high. Can anyone offer their advice on the below details.
We just moved into our new home a couple of months ago. It technically was treated as two homes (old cottage & two level extension which is 20 years old) and because of this it has two separate CHS. We live in the extension at the moment but the long term is to make it one home.
Both systems are oil and are oil range cookers/boilers that are 30+ years old with drip feed systems and no timers :-0
We got a quote to join the two systems up, remove and install a new oil condensing boiler in a coal shed (this will be the new boiler house and is attached to the house with electricity) and it came in at 7,200 excluding vat and excluding the grant. If you include the grant and VAT, its ~7500.
A more exact detail of the quote are:
Supply & fit 35kw Grant Vortex boiler
Remote firevalve & magniclean filter
Run new oil line from tank to boiler
Run 1" copper from boiler to hot-press
Run heating & hot water pipes from hot-press to cottage and lag in armoflex
Disconnect & remove hot-press in cottage
Supply & fit 300L stainless steel dual coil hot water cylinder
Re-pipe hot-press, flush heating system and fit one rad in hot-press
Fit 4 zone heating controls, controlled via 4 channel 7 day programmer, 3 digital room thermostats controlling 3 heating zones (cottage, new house downstairs, new house upstairs).
Cylinder stat controlling hot water
4 motorised valves
Replace cold water storage tank in Attic
Includes all electrical work
So this is excluding replacing radiators (except 1 new one) and excluding the solar kit too
From my research I have done some checks on equipment
Grant Vortex 35kW Boiler House Model: €1,200 Incl Vat
Flue Kit: €160 Incl VAT
300L Stainless steel dual Coil solar hot water: ~€1000
So that's the two main costs that I could see and there's a ~€5000 euro gap
I don't know the cost of copper pipes, thermostats, and valves but I'm struggling to imagine its more than another €2000 which would leave €3000 profit.
I also asked about time and I was told 4-5 days for the work.
Some other details that might help.
Will be moving current oil tank to a new place
New oil line run will be ~15 meters
New pipes to run from new boiler house to hot-press will be ~8 meters
Pipes to run from hot-press to cottage will be ~20 meters
So after reading that, do you think im being a bit too tough on the price or does that sound okay?
Oh, I live in Leinster but not Dublin so its not even a Dublin premium either
Thanks for any advice you can offer,
Wimpy
P.S. I got the new rads and the solar kit priced separately and I can include them later if anyone is interested but I want to focus on this first question ;-)