We’re renovating the entire garden floor (where our boiler also sat, since we have no cellar) and have hired a heating company highly recommended by the manufacturer of the boiler to do the installation and relocation of the ew boiler to the back of the house. Reasonable price, but not cheap. Boiler is somewhat unusual (wall hung boiler that vents without a chimney, high efficiency), so it was difficult to get many quotes. Things were fine until they got the check for 50% of the cost. After that, they have had such a difficult attitude and are argumentative. They refuse to work there if any other workers are on the site, they only want to come in one time to do the entire job and hook up all the radiators and want us to place the rads in their final position, although that is impossible, as the walls and tiles can’t be done and the rads put in their final position until the heating lines are in the walls. But, they act like this is the first time they encountered an installation during a gut reno, which I cannot believe. To their limited credit they agreed to accomodate us by moving and demoing the old equipment, so the GC could continue his work until they could come in to do the job. When they came in as promised on Day 1, they demoed the old boiler, took delivery of the new boiler and HW heater and left. And then were supposed to come back day 2 and when I called stated first that they were unable, and then claimed it was because we did not have the site just so for them. On top of that, they expect most of the remaining payment before the work is finished and I am afraid they will walk off if I refuse.
\nCan someone give me some advice about this? Is this usual? My GC seems to not think so. I find them extremely arrogant. It has become a bit of a nightmare. What should I do? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’re renovating the entire garden floor (where our boiler also sat, since we have no cellar) and have hired a heating company highly recommended by the manufacturer of the boiler to do the installation and relocation of the ew boiler to the back of the house. Reasonable price, but not cheap. Boiler is somewhat unusual…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-24639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/09\/boiler-installa-1\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Boiler installation: bad experience so far","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/09\/boiler-installa-1\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2008\/09\/boiler-installa-1\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Brokers","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ohiise"}],"creator":["ohiise"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2008-09-24T11:04:00Z","datePublished":"2008-09-24T11:04:00Z","dateModified":"2008-09-24T11:04:00Z"},"rendered":"