Ideal boiler warranties share the Earth with you. If you want to know what they cover, and not a lot else - read some more words below.
When buying a new boiler, you're bound to be faced with the prospect of an engineer offering to fit you an Ideal Logic boiler.
Ideal boilers have everything from budget to premium covered – picture Weatherspoon's, if they did good food.
After all, the very name screams logic and common sense - not to mention they're super cheap. Giving into that temptation would be no great surprise.
Standard Ideal boiler warranty length for the ever-popular Logic range is 2 years - however, it’s more and more common for 5+ years to be offered.
In today’s market, don’t touch a boiler with anything less than a 5-year warranty - it’s the absolute floor.
Read a touch more on the fine art of the boiler warranty here, but if you do in fact have better things to do, here are two key takeaways:
1. Shoot for 5 years min. Anything less than this is becoming less and less common due to manufacturer confidence in their ever-improving new boiler ranges, but 5-years of peace of mind is an OK marker for any new boiler.
2. Paying for your new boiler in monthly instalments? Make sure your Ideal boiler warranty matches or exceeds your payment plan period.
What’s covered in an Ideal boiler warranty?
Ideal will endeavour to resolve any issue with the boiler appliance itself that has originated from their system and any of its internal components.
No problems here then.
But, another two key points to keep in mind:
1. Have total confidence in your heating engineer or company. Confirm that they’re Gas Safe registered, have good reviews and ideally, Ideal approved.
2. Servicing – Considered by most to be an unnecessary expenditure and chances are, a new boiler will go on working fine for years without service but its cover will not.
Ideal – and all manufacturers – will only uphold their new boiler warranty if your boiler has been serviced annually by a Gas Safe registered heating engineer. No clowns.
Ideal boiler costs
Ideal Model | Price (Guide) | |
Logic Combi 24kW | £1,750 | |
£1,845 | ||
Logic Combi 35kW | £2,245 | |
Vogue Gen2 26kW | £2,550 | |
Vogue Gen2 32kW | £2,750 | |
Vogue Max 26kW | £2,850 | |
£2,990 | ||
Vogue Max 40kW | £3,360 |
Registering an Ideal boiler warranty
An unregistered Ideal boiler warranty is like a turtle on its back. If your warranty goes unregistered after 30 days then Ideal will deem it redundant and no excuse in the world will change their mind.
Claiming against an unregistered boiler is like prising well kept secrets from the eyes of dead men.
The responsibility of registration ultimately lies with you, but any conscientious boiler installer will register the warranty on your behalf after installation - ourselves included.
Don’t be shy about reminding installers though. It’s you that suffers the agonising fate of an unregistered Ideal boiler warranty.
If it did slip your installer’s mind though, don’t fret.
Life after an Ideal Boiler Warranty - broken boilers
Your boiler has broken down and you failed to register your warranty. This is the harsh reality of life outside of the Matrix, and it's cold. My God it is cold.
Don't give up just yet though.
Your first port of call should be the engineer who installed your new boiler. They will often provide workmanship cover for a minimum of 12 months and with any luck, the problem with your boiler will fall under their remit.
Outside of this, it is worth remembering that almost all boilers can be fixed and if yours is just a few years old or less, then it may well be worth paying what could be a fairly insignificant amount to make your Ideal run like a brand new boiler all over again.
Skim over our comprehensive boiler warranty article for further advice on this.
No warranty, what now?
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You may need it fast, and with affordable monthly payments.
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