On the other hand, when a landlord employs a professional boiler maintenance company and is prepared to listen to their professional advice, new boilers can be very quick. We have to move sooner rather than later for space reasons, but I will miss this landlord a lot.

New boiler fitting has been far less disrupting and messy than any of the repair jobs it's had over the last six years. I barely knew the fitter had been in the house (and he took in several parcels for me, and put his recyclable waste in the recycling bin, which is above and beyond and I will be writing to his company to say so).