Scottish Power Boiler Service

[marynary]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has found the Scottish Power Boiler Service contract to be appalling.

 

A valve in my boiler started leaking in November and an engineer from Scottish Power told me he would order a new one to replace it. However, after two months of repeated phone calls, engineers turning up with the wrong valve (or not at all) it still hadn't been fixed. The leak got more severe and my boiler was becoming damaged.

 

I finally received a phone call from Scottish Power saying that an engineer would come out to replace the valve on the morning of January 30th but nobody came. By this time I was very concerned about potential damage to the boiler and I therefore phoned a local plumber who replaced the valve for me the following day at a cost of £175.

 

I have tried to get Scottish Power to refund the cost of the valve but they have refused as an engineer apparently turned up later that day rather than the morning (despite me telling them that I couldn't be there after 4 p.m.) and I wasn't there to "give them access" so it is my fault (according to them). The fact that I had made it very clear that I would only be there in the morning and the fact that I had already waited for two months is irrelevant it seems.