New boiler quotes in Aberdeen.
Three quotes from Gas Safe registered engineers who actually cover your postcode, not a call centre eighty miles away.
- Covering AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16, AB21, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25 and the wider Aberdeenshire
- Your job reaches them in about 60 seconds
- Three engineers maximum, then it closes
- Every one checked on the Gas Safe Register
Get three Aberdeen quotes.
- Three quotes from Gas Safe engineers in your postcode
- Compare prices and opinions before you commit
- A maximum of three, then it closes
- Free to you, and no obligation
Engineers covering Aberdeen.
Every one checked on the Gas Safe Register before they join.
- Gas Safe registration number verified against the public register
- A registered business with a real address, not a mobile and a van
- Coverage confirmed for the postcode areas they say they work in
- We ask homeowners how the job went, and act on the answer
You can check any engineer's registration yourself at gassaferegister.co.uk before work begins. Ask to see the card. Any decent engineer expects you to.
What a boiler swap usually looks like in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen is split almost evenly between flats and houses. Scotland's Census 2022 counted 109,450 occupied households in Aberdeen City, with 50 per cent in flats, 21 per cent semi-detached, 16 per cent terraced and 13 per cent detached. The older stock is granite: Victorian tenements in Rosemount and Torry, villas and terraces in Ferryhill, the West End and along Great Western Road, and the medieval and Georgian streets of Old Aberdeen. The council built at Northfield, Mastrick and Kincorth after the war, including 59 multi-storey blocks, and Bridge of Don and Cove Bay grew with private estates from the 1970s. Around 78 per cent of homes use mains gas.
Granite tenements in Rosemount and Torry usually have a combi on the kitchen wall with the flue through the rear elevation into the back green, and the survey has to confirm terminal clearances from the flats above and beside before a like-for-like swap is agreed. In the post-war semis and four-in-a-block houses at Northfield, Kincorth and Mastrick a heat-only boiler with a cylinder is still common, and replacing both with a combi is a standard job where the mains pressure allows.
We deliberately don't put a figure on this page, because nobody can price a boiler from a postcode. The cost calculator will give you a realistic range for a property like yours in under a minute, and three quotes for your actual job give you the real answer.
Getting three quotes matters more on a conversion
On a straight replacement the prices tend to cluster. On a cylinder-to-combi conversion they do not: how the engineer plans to route the pipework, whether a system flush is included and what happens to the cupboard afterwards can each move the number by hundreds. Three quotes is not about haggling. It is about seeing three different opinions on how the work should be done.
Whoever you go with must be Gas Safe registered. It is against the law for anyone else to work on your gas boiler, and you can check any engineer's registration number yourself before they start.
Finding a boiler engineer in Aberdeen
Our engineers cover AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16, AB21, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25 and the wider Aberdeenshire area, and those codes are examples rather than a limit. Rather than ringing round yourself, you fill in one form and we pass it to up to three Gas Safe registered engineers who work in your postcode. They contact you, they quote, and you decide.
Ask all three the same questions
Is the price fixed or an estimate? Does it include a power flush or just a chemical clean? Is a magnetic filter included, since most manufacturer warranties require one? Who notifies building control? A good engineer in Aberdeen will not mind being asked, and one who bristles has told you something useful.
Water and heating in Aberdeen
Aberdeen's water is taken from the River Dee, treated at Invercannie near Banchory and piped to Mannofield, and like most Scottish supplies it is classed as soft. Scale is not a practical concern for a boiler here, so the priority is corrosion control: a clean system, inhibitor and a magnetic filter.
Planning, flats and the edges of Aberdeen
Aberdeen has eleven conservation areas, including Union Street, Rosemount, Ferryhill, Great Western Road, Old Aberdeen and Footdee, and any alteration that affects the character of a building there needs planning permission, which can include a flue terminal on a front elevation. Many council multi-storey blocks in Seaton and Tillydrone are on the Aberdeen Heat and Power district network rather than individual boilers, and AB21 and AB23 reach into rural Aberdeenshire where some homes are on oil or LPG. Building standards are run by Aberdeen City Council's building standards service and larger works need a building warrant.
Areas of Aberdeen this covers
Rosemount, Ferryhill, Torry, Old Aberdeen, Mannofield, Bridge of Don, Kincorth, Northfield, Cults and Dyce, and everywhere else in AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16, AB21, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25. The districts are Aberdeen itself; a job just outside them still reaches engineers who cover that postcode.
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Aberdeen questions.
My granite tenement flat in Rosemount is in a conservation area. Will the new flue need permission?
It depends where it comes out. Rosemount is one of Aberdeen's eleven conservation areas, and the council requires planning permission for any alteration that affects the character of the area, which a new terminal on a street-facing wall would. Most tenement flues in Rosemount exit through the rear wall into the back green, and a like-for-like replacement in the same position is normally straightforward. If the boiler has to move or the flue changes elevation, check with the council's planning team before the work is booked.
Does Aberdeen have hard water, and should I fit a scale reducer with a new combi?
No. Aberdeen's supply comes from the River Dee through the Invercannie and Mannofield treatment works, and Scottish Water classes the water as soft. Limescale does not build up in heat exchangers here, so a scale reducer is not worth fitting. The protection that matters in soft water is against corrosion, so the system should be flushed, dosed with inhibitor and fitted with a magnetic filter before the new boiler is commissioned.
What does a new boiler cost in Aberdeen?
It depends far more on the job than the town. A straight combi-for-combi swap sits at the bottom of the range; a cylinder-to-combi conversion sits well above it, and only an engineer standing in your house can see which one you have. The cost calculator gives you a realistic range in under a minute, and comparing 3 quotes for your actual job gives you the real answer.
Which postcodes in Aberdeen do you cover?
Aberdeen is AB10, AB11, AB12, AB15, AB16, AB21, AB22, AB23, AB24, AB25, and we match on the outward code, so a job in AB10 only goes to engineers who have told us they cover AB10. Those districts are the town itself rather than a service boundary. If your postcode isn't listed, enter it anyway: we place jobs across the UK, not only in the towns we have a page for.
How quickly can someone come out in Aberdeen?
Your job reaches engineers covering AB postcodes within about a minute of you submitting it. How soon one of them can actually fit a boiler depends on their diary and on the job, so we don't promise a date we don't control. If your boiler has failed completely, say so on the form and it is flagged as urgent.
Are your Aberdeen engineers Gas Safe registered?
Yes. Every engineer on our network is on the Gas Safe Register and we check the number against the public register before any job is sent to them. It is illegal for anyone else to work on your gas boiler. Ask to see their ID card and check it yourself at gassaferegister.co.uk before work starts.
Do you own the property in Aberdeen?
This is the one thing we have to know before anything else. A boiler replacement is a permanent change to the property, so it has to be authorised by whoever owns it - which means we can only arrange quotes for the homeowner, or for someone acting on the owner's behalf. Landlords are welcome to use the form for a property they let. If you answer no, we stop there rather than pass your details to an engineer who would not be able to take the job.
Three Aberdeen quotes, thirty seconds.
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