Bought an Ideal Vogue Combi boiler with 10 year guarantee a year ago and needed a service to comply with guarantee, phoned round for prices cheapest was £85 some wanted more than double that, seems a lot for less than an hour’s work. Found this website https://www.myboilerservice.com/
Gave it a try best quote was £40 seemed a bargain it was late so I went back in the morning and got another quote this time for £30 why the difference I had no idea. Accepted the quote and got a call from the guy later in the day and made an appointment.
After waiting an hour gave him a call to see where he was, stuck on the motorway but would be with me in 30 mins.
At this point I’m thinking serves me right you get what you pay for.
He turns up and gets to work, in conversation I ask if he’s been working out of town to get caught on the motorway, no he lives in Wakefield 34 miles away.
This is becoming too good to be true, travels all that way and is a lot cheaper, asked if he was gas safe registered he shows me photo id card.
Asked him how he does it at the price he replies quantity, at my age it’s easy work and I’ve done hundreds here in York in fact I’ve got five more here today.
Did the job and did what the others did to my untrained eye, filled in the guarantee book and sent me a certificate.
When he finished asked how much I owed him £25 he says, it said thirty online, he says I always knock a fiver if I’m late.
What a refreshing change from the usual swindlers, it pays to shop around.