To me this is this highlights a classic problem in the industry - the hourly rate of the engineer doesn’t just cover hours on site, it’s travel time, ins, van, tools, and (hopefully) experience.
But with parts being expensive the cost of repair soon racks up. Two visits and you’re in new boiler territory. It’s true some folk ‘earning while they learning’ and costing the customer money for the privilege, but to me the manufacturers should pick up their game - boilers have computers in them these days, but most fault codes are woolly to say the least. Mechanics do charge £90 per hour, but their computer diagnoses which part is at fault. Let’s face it not many boiler parts are fixable - it’s about identifying which parts at fault and swapping it out. That’s my rant after England beat Ireland - imagine if they’d lost
But with parts being expensive the cost of repair soon racks up. Two visits and you’re in new boiler territory. It’s true some folk ‘earning while they learning’ and costing the customer money for the privilege, but to me the manufacturers should pick up their game - boilers have computers in them these days, but most fault codes are woolly to say the least. Mechanics do charge £90 per hour, but their computer diagnoses which part is at fault. Let’s face it not many boiler parts are fixable - it’s about identifying which parts at fault and swapping it out. That’s my rant after England beat Ireland - imagine if they’d lost