by stronach »
Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:26 pm
We have a Glow Worm gas boiler that was in our 3 bed detached house when we bought it as a new build in 1995. It has performed well, only breaking down 3 times, 1st when a little bird got in the exhaust flue through a broken bit and jammed the fan, so not really a boiler fault. Next was a failure of the igniter switch and had to be replaced, took 3 visits to sort that out, last one during the ' beast from the east' spell of freezing weather 3 yrs ago when the pcb packed up, again took 3 days to fix. My question is should we change it for a new one or carry on with this one, it won't last for ever though I knew a couple who had their gas boiler for over 40 yrs and was still ok when they had to sell up to go into residential care. If I change we would wait until the better weather assuming it keeps going until then. It has been serviced annually. What would experts advise? Also the Labour government has got in in for gas boilers so extra taxes may be put on new ones which is something to keep in mind.
