News

April 2010 - Boiler Scrappage Scheme - Latest

Based upon information from the Energy Savings Trust website (See below), it appears that the Goverment's boiler scrappage scheme has now ended. Even without the scrappage scheme allowance, we can still provide a cost-effective solution to your central heating requirements, using quality appliances and expertise. We may not be the cheapest quotation you receive, but there are reasons for that. We would be happy to discuss these with you.

March 2010 - Boiler Scrappage Scheme

Many customers are now aware of the government's boiler scrappage scheme, administered by the Energy Savings Trust. They can be contacted to determine the eligibility of your existing boiler to make sure it qualifies for the £400 rebate.

We are unable to confirm that your boiler is eligible for the rebate and suggest that you contact the EST with details of your boiler so that they can look it up and advise you accordingly.

December 2009 / January 2010 - VAT and Prices

The reduction in VAT comes to an end in 2010 and overheads have increased over the past 12 months. We have not increased our prices for several years but have to from January 1st. Typically, the cost of servicing rises from £55.00 to £60.00, part of this being VAT and part being an actual increase. We apologise to customers for this increase.

Discounts are available for servicing multiple appliances during the same visit

November 2009 - Festive Period

Christmas and New Year period - Between Saturday 19th December and Sunday 3rd January we will not be working, other than if our existing customers have a problem that cannot be left until the new year. Feel free to contact us during this period and we will respond when possible.

We wish all our customers a very merry Christmas and hope you have a happy and propsperous 2010.

October 2009 - Change Of Address

Due to a change forced upon us by the people who owned the address of our registered office, we have had to change it. Our new address is updated on our contact page.

August 2009 - Servicing Prices Frozen

To try to remain competitive, we have kept our servicing charges at last years prices, for example £55.00 (including VAT) to service a central heating boiler. Our installation labour charges have not been increased either but we have been informed by Worcester Bosch that there is to be a price increase across the range of their boilers. If the increase is small, we may be able to absorb this, otherwise the prices for installations may have to rise.

July 2009 - Water Treatment

We have recently completed a training session given by Fernox, a leader in water treatment products and power flushing. As well as using Fernox products when installing central heating, we can now offer a water testing service through Fernox to determine possible causes of problems with central heating systems. Contact us to discuss this option.

March 2009 - Gas Safe Register

In April, gas installers in this country no longer have to be registered with CORGI. A new body has been set up called Gas Safe Register and installers have to be registered with them. Harry Willis Limited have registered with the new body and we are in the process of changing our websites, stationery and van signs. While we do not believe that the change from CORGI has been handled correctly, we have to comply with the change. We are happy to discuss the new scheme with customers to explain what has changed.

February 2009 - Spread the cost

We have noticed that some of our regular customers are not having work done such as annual servicing. From a few customers that we have asked about this, it seems that the current economic situation is having an impact on people's spending. Understandably, people seem to be being more cautious with their spending. In an attempt to help spread the cost, we are happy to accept payment in the form of post-dated cheques. This may be useful to make sure jobs like annual servicing get done, but at a lower monthly cost. Feel free to contact us to discuss payment options.

January 2009 - 1st Annual Service Free

Not only are we keeping the cost of servicing at 2008 prices, we are now offering that for every new boiler installed by us until April 2009, we will carry out the first annual service FREE, (excluding any parts that may be needed).

December 2008 - Worcester Bosch Warranties

All WB boilers installed by us will now come with a 5 year parts and labour warranty, provided by Worcester Bosch. This is at no additional cost, unlike the warranty given with some other boilers, where the extra cover comes at an extra cost.

September 2008 - Price Freeze

Given the way prices are rising, we are trying hard not to increase our charges in the coming months. Servicing costs remain at £55.00 including VAT for a central heating boiler. We hope to keep that price for the remainder of the year.

August 2008 - Extended Warranty - Extended For Even Longer

Worcester Bosch boilers fitted by us before December 31st now come with a full 5 year parts & labour warranty.

June 2008 - Extended Warranty - Extended Again!

Worcester Bosch have yet again extended the 5 year warranty period. New boilers will be covered by a full parts and labour warranty. This is in addition to the heat exchanger in their boilers being covered by a 10 year warranty. Call us to discuss the warranty and your requirements.

May 2008 - Strange Emails?

It has come to our attention that spammers are using this website's domain name in spam emails. These emails are not sent from ourselves and it appears that there is little we can do to prevent it happening. Should you have received an email appearing to be from Harry Willis Limited, please accept our apologies. We do not send out email messages to anyone other than when replying to a customer query or if we have been asked to. We do not pass email addresses to a third party.

April 2008 - FREE First Annual Service

On all new Worcester Bosch boiler installed during April 2008 and May 2008, we will carry out the first annual service for free, (excluding any parts that may be required).

July 2007 - New Controls

For most new central heating boilers we now fit a new Honeywell radio-frequency, combined time and temperature control. This gives flexible control of the heating system and allows the control to be sited almost anywhere within a home.

For more information, see Honeywell's product information pages.

May 2007 - Worcester Accredited Installer

We have been Specialist Installers of Worcester Bosch boilers for some time, and have just been on a visit to the Worcester factory to update our knowledge of their boilers.

Being an Accredited Installer means that we have shown Worcester Bosch that we install their boilers properly and have extensive knowledge of their products, over and above other heating installers.

March 2007 - New Website Launched

This is the redesigned Harry Willis Limited website. Please feel free to contact us with comments, suggestions, or just to say 'hello'!

Website designed and built by Harry Willis, using CSS and standard HTML, without Javascript.

Tested in IE6 & 7, Opera 9.10 and Firefox 2 browsers. Seems to work fine, other than some text resizing issues in Opera and Firefox - if you use these browsers and resize the text, strange things may happen! While it may be nice to spend time to correct these problems, there are more essential things to be done, here in internet land and real life.