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Marinerz93
June 19, 2019, 11:50pm

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The regs have changed over the last year as it used to be At Risk with a gas warning notice issued if the flue was within 300 mm from a door or window opening, now it would be classed as not to current standards. You can get snorkel kits that extended the flue away from doors and windows however these can look unsightly and have to be installed by gas safe engineer to make sure the flow rate of air being drawn meets regulations. The modern approach in some cases is for boilers to be fitted in the loft, but bear in mind building regs because if a boiler is in the loft there has to be a fixed loft ladder and it should be boarded out to the boiler so it can be serviced and closely inspected for spillage (products of combustion on the outside of the boiler known as spillage which is signs of Carbon Monoxide)

The fitting of boilers has three things to consider, one is the gas pipe that feeds the boiler and  another is the water pipes that go to and come form the boiler, so you are looking at routing of pipe work and do you want a gas pipe running through your house. The last one is the flue, placing it in a location so that it does what it is intended to do and it is sealed at least on the outside.

I'm not a boiler installer but as part of my job, I had to know Gas Safe regs and had to relight appliances after carrying out work could sometimes be tricky, boilers being the worst in some cases to relight.


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Boiler has actually been in for 15+ years I believe, if not longer!

We don't plan on staying in the house forever, so if a flue extension on the outside looks silly but does the job, I'm happy


Pretty much won't be servceable anyway if its that old...15yrs on a modern boiler is pushing its life expectancy and most models will be discontinued after that long so parts generally running short.  Factor in replacing it in the near future and then consider options for moving it then.


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