New boiler quotes in Exeter.
Three quotes from Gas Safe registered engineers who actually cover your postcode, not a call centre eighty miles away.
- Covering EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6 and the wider Devon
- Your job reaches them in about 60 seconds
- Three engineers maximum, then it closes
- Every one checked on the Gas Safe Register
Get three Exeter 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 Exeter.
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 Exeter.
Terraced houses are the largest type in Exeter at 31.3 per cent of households in the 2021 Census, ahead of semis at 26.9 per cent, purpose-built flats at 19.6 per cent and detached at 15.1 per cent. Another 4.5 per cent live in converted houses, a sign of how many Georgian and Victorian houses in St Leonard's, Pennsylvania and St David's have been split into flats. Terraces in St Thomas, Heavitree and Newtown make up the older stock, with later semis and estate housing in Wonford, Whipton and Pinhoe.
In the terraces a combi swap is the usual job, though the long pipe run from a rear kitchen to a front bedroom can make a system boiler with a cylinder the better choice where there are two bathrooms. Split Victorian houses need care with flue routes, because the boiler for an upper flat may be some way from an outside wall and a fanned flue cannot pass a neighbour's window inside the clearance limits. The 1930s and post-war semis often keep an airing cupboard cylinder, so cylinder-to-combi conversions are common.
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 Exeter
Our engineers cover EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6 and the wider Devon 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 Exeter will not mind being asked, and one who bristles has told you something useful.
Water and heating in Exeter
South West Water says most of its supply comes from moorland rivers and reservoirs and is soft or moderately soft, with only the East Devon borehole supplies classed as slightly or moderately hard. Exeter sits on the boundary, so limescale is a minor issue for most of the city but homes on the eastern fringe fed from the East Devon side may see a little more.
Planning, flats and the edges of Exeter
Exeter City Council lists 20 conservation areas, including Heavitree, St Leonard's, Pennsylvania, St David's, St Sidwells, Exwick, Alphington, Southernhay and Topsham, so a flue terminal on a front elevation or a listed house may need consent first. The city has few tall blocks, but purpose-built flats around the quay and the university raise shared flue questions. Building control is handled by Exeter City Council; Exminster, Cranbrook and Broadclyst carry Exeter postcodes but fall under Teignbridge or East Devon, and some rural EX5 and EX6 addresses are off the gas grid.
Areas of Exeter this covers
Heavitree, St Thomas, Exwick, Pennsylvania, St Leonard's, Alphington, Wonford, Pinhoe, Countess Wear and Topsham, and everywhere else in EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6. The districts are Exeter itself; a job just outside them still reaches engineers who cover that postcode.
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Exeter questions.
Is Exeter water hard enough to need a scale reducer on a new boiler?
For most of Exeter, usually no. South West Water classes the bulk of its supply as soft or moderately soft because it comes from moorland rivers and reservoirs rather than chalk or limestone. Only the East Devon borehole supplies are classed as slightly or moderately hard, and those mainly serve towns east of the city. Some engineers fit a scale inhibitor as a precaution, but in Exeter the main reason is a manufacturer's warranty condition rather than the water itself.
My house in St Leonard's is in a conservation area, can I still put a flue through the front wall?
Conservation area status does not stop a boiler replacement, but it can affect where the flue terminal goes. Exeter City Council treats a flue on a front or side elevation facing the street differently in a conservation area, and on a listed building any new external pipework needs listed building consent. The usual answer is to route the flue to the rear and keep the terminal out of view from the road. Check the council's conservation area map before agreeing a boiler position.
What does a new boiler cost in Exeter?
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 Exeter do you cover?
Exeter is EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, and we match on the outward code, so a job in EX1 only goes to engineers who have told us they cover EX1. 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 Exeter?
Your job reaches engineers covering EX 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 Exeter 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 Exeter?
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.
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