My 28 year old Ideal floor standing boiler was completely dead this morning, with no pilot light. I expected it to be the same fault it had last year which required a new gas valve to fix it, but it simply needed a new pump.
Alerted British Gas at 8:30am this morning and they arrived and had it fixed 3 hours later at 11:30am...superb.
I've got a Worcester Bosch Greenstar 28HE system boiler being fitted in 10 days, hopefully that will give me 28 years of pretty reliable service too...yeah, right!