How Much Does It Cost To Replace an Immersion Heater?



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Cost to Replace an Immersion Heater


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Labour
1How about changing an immersion? He will charge half a day inc. a new unit which costs about £25
£120.00


“Labour” at £175 a day (tradesman) £100 (labourer), includes incidental fixings etc. and tipping charges. “Materials” if mentioned, are larger things (a boiler) and stuff only you can choose (tiles etc).  Also VAT must be added all round.

Information Sheet on Changing an Immersion Heater


If you’ve got central heating, you never use the immersion so how do you know whether it’s “gone”?

Mine “went” last year. Fortunately, the switch is in the kitchen. I knew there was a problem when switching it on by mistake plunged the house into darkness.
Fitting a new one can be a pig of a job, so thinking it might be the switch I replaced it. However, it wasn’t. Sometimes, it can be the connection on top of the immersion, but fiddling about with that made no difference. Finally, I changed the immersion!

You have to mess about turning off supply tanks and emptying the top of the cylinder. (Actually, you empty at the bottom of the cylinder but it shows at the top first)! That’s after you’ve emptied all the very clean towels out of the airing cupboard very carefully indeed!
Luckily my immersion was sort of accessible so I only had to break my left arm to get to it (I hate plumbing). Amazingly, it unscrewed quite easily, I’ve seen cylinders distort horribly under the monster spanner you have to use.
I didn’t have to wonder why it blew the fuses. The whole of one “arm” had split open exposing the heating element. At last I had my culprit!

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