CH Boiler annual service - going rate?

Just been quoted £132 for an approved service by a local company. Boiler will be a year old when the service is carried out, also Worcester-Bosch.

£60 by local Worcester Bosch approved company that installed CH 4 years ago

Thanks - gives me a rough idea of what to expect

£80 by independant who installed it a few years ago

We had new Worcester Bosch boiler sept 2019. Not serviced since new. Went wrong recently (a leak). They charged £240 to come out and fix it, service it and reinstate the 5 year warranty. So if a service is £132 annually I am a few quid up, but if £60 then I’ve been stung £120 for poor household admin. From previous experience
on a 10 year old boiler if it went wrong even if serviced regularly it would be new boiler time… does annual servicing prolong the life of the boiler is the question on my lips?

£60-£70 last year depending on whether I paid cash. 😁 Let's not go there, eh?

We hadn't had it serviced for about 8 years before and we're not dead. But they do test the gas mix in the flue, presumably for CO etc. Ours has a noisy diverter valve so we're half expecting it to croak this year (12 years old now).

We'll probably just replace the whole thing if it does die, but we'll see how the money and parts situation is at the time. The guy said it was in decent nick.

I just figured they are expensive when they go wrong, so it was better to keep an eye on it

Probably not worth it, if they go wrong you'll know, and a service probably won't prevent that.

does annual servicing prolong the life of the boiler is the question on my lips?

Possibly not, but what I think it does do is preempt problems if the service engineer replaces parts which are leaking, wearing, about to fail or just a bit too old.  We get ours done in the autumn so that hopefully those parts won't then fail on a winter weekend cold snap when we can't get an engineer.

We have a Worcester Bosch oil fired boiler outside the house and have used the same local independent engineer for seven years.  He keeps a log of repairs on our boiler, so knows if a particular bit with an average life span of 5 years for example, is due for a swap.

We have been told £80 on a recently installed WB boiler + replacing the filer that comes with it so approx £160 annual cost 🙁

Thats on an oil burner though and apparently does include replacement of a part every year, although I cant recall the name of it as the oil basically makes it not work as well over time.

At our old house the heating engineer said its better to leave them alone if they are working properly for the first 5 yrs or so (gas not oil) but who knows....

Mine's a 4 year old Viessmann Vitodens and due to be serviced next week @ £75 + VAT

does annual servicing prolong the life of the boiler is the question on my lips?

Probably not but it should stop the boiler using excess gas which will be very expensive. At current prices the saving on servicing will disappear quite quickly.

The £132 was a first quote from a larger local company, I'm waiting on two or three others before deciding.

Ours is £90 inc. VAT from the local heating engineer that installed our current HW system 9 years ago (but it was an existing Worcester-Bosch boiler which will be about 12 years old).

£50 for cash from guy who did the full CH install, Mum just paid £75 last week different guy same boiler.
Main reason is to maintain 12yr warranty

Torn on this one. We religiously had the last boiler serviced to maintain 7yr warranty. The warranty paid off at about 5yrs old when the servicing agent found an issue which he said at the time if not covered by warranty then would probably be better to change boiler. Got it repaired under warranty FOC. Happy days.

But by 5yrs old i had paid enough to have replaced the boiler and fitting costs and would have a brand new, super efficient boiler.

I am in a new house now with a boiler which will need an annual service in about 3mths time. Havent deicded whether to stick or twist. With gas becoming so expensive i expect there will be some big developments over the next 5years water and heating.

22 year old gas boiler here. Not serviced for the first 15 years at least, then on a BG plan that got prohibitively expensive so not serviced since 2019. It will of course die at the first inconvenient opportunity now I've typed that...

does annual servicing prolong the life of the boiler is the question on my lips?

Think I've had ours serviced once in the last 25 years!

I've changed a few bits which died (pressure sensor, main PCB) - doubt servicing every year would have made any difference.

Also changed maybe 3 pumps, couple of motorised valves, 2 thermostats and probably some other bits keeping the whole system running.

£70 inc. Baxi-registered fitter to keep the warranty going

Less than a hundred quid for sure, it's a five minute job so you are just paying a call out charge really for the plumbers travel time.

£130 for an oil boiler down here in the south Cotswolds.

Local independent e-mails when it's due, he fitted and serviced it for 6 years before we moved here. He checks all the emissions, leaks, pressures etc plus our CO2 sensors , e-mails a checklist (for insurance I guess) fifty quid by bank transfer, problems and spares are extra . Forgot to say....mains gas.
I suppose keeping this guy onside means we get a bit of peace of mind if we need an emergency call out, though I have bought and changed pumps myself which he seems ok with.
On a similar note , when our last washing machine died despite my best efforts at revival, we went to one of the big chains for a cheapish replacement, the saleswoman was most put out that we would not buy an extended warranty. She said to my wife 'what will you do if it breaks down out of warranty ?' Quick as a flash our lass replies , 'Buy another one with the money we've saved by not purchasing your expensive and useless extended warranty!'

...it’s a five minute job...

Figure of speech? Tightness test and cert take that on their own. Half hour-ish from memory?