OP & others, This discussion serves well to warn those folks who look at and subscribe to "DIY" that BG is a very greedy Co. for installation of new boilers and other stuff. Long time appenders/watchers have known this for years.
We've had such warnings many times before and it doesn't seem to get better.
FACT: Nobody has ever come onto this site with a message which said that BG was the best they could get with a combination of price & quality, (i.e. value).
SO: How do we, get the message out?
That is commonsense from a reasonably well informed group of DIY enthusiasts, who, while amateurs, welcome and use good professional input.
I really do worry about the decent old person/pensioner who calls in BG because he/she thinks it's the company that they've known for generations and think that it's something to do with the Public Sector,
(NO, please, don't go into a rant about Public Sector and the rights/wrongs of privtisation , please!)
I live in a part of a somewhat prosperous major UK City with lots of flats around me, mainly occupied by older people.
All these good folks are vulnerable to BG's greed.
They need better. They need good/keen/honest tradesmen, fully registered and insured who can do what these folks need safely and at a fair profit?
Rant over.... sorry, I feel very keenly about this, I really hate fraud!
EP