Does anyone have any opinions about where the best place is to put an oil boiler for central heating. I've gotton conflicting advice to date as to what is best: i.e. put the boiler inside in the utility room, put it outside in a boiler house, buy one of those self contained external boiler units.
Any opinions?
1st Outside in a boiler house - but in a workshop is fine as it heats the workshop a bit 2nd External boiler unit - look ugly and lose a bit more heat
last Inside the house - just don't do it ! People who say modern oil boilers don't smell have obviously been snorting white spirit for years.
Or alternatively, get an HRM Wallstar, goes half in and half out of the house whith all the smelly bits being outside. Also means it can be serviced from outside, so if you're on good terms with the servicing co they should even be able to do it while you're out.
Also means if its raining/snowing then they're not traipsing their dirthy wet selves through your house :=)) - Some here have posted that they don't like working on these because of this feature.
If you have a smell from a modern oil boiler there is something wrong with your installation.
Just don't hold your breath for a mug to turn out to a breakdown when its pissing down with rain or snowing! You want me to work in those conditions you find out I don't
Exactly so
One of those cheap garden gazebos from Argos as a temporary shelter might be useful in such circumstances.
Owain
Installation is perfect - in an outbuilding. I guess you've just got acclimatised to the smell over the years but I can walk into any house and detect an oil boiler straight away. The smell gradually accumulates and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
I've enough to carry in my van without catering for folks who choose to make life hard I am willing to go the extra mile for people who have boilers located in sensible (for me) places, others can go whistle as I don't need any more on my client list.
I was meaning that the householder whose premises were equipped with heating apparatus of the aforementioned nature might taking into account the difficulty in persuading reputable tradespeople to provide their services for even immoderately generous amounts of financial restitution and having due cognisance of the fact that it was he the heritor of the property described hereabove and outlined on the attached plan in red who had taken the decision to equip his abode with such machinery located so disadvantageously for the purpose of routine maintenance and repair in customarily inclement ambient meteorological conditions or to purchase same dwelling house with equipment such as heretofore enumerated and being desirous of obtaining prompt and courteous service from a central heating maintenance operative having sufficient technical qualifications and being of irreproachable moral character think it a worthwhile exercise to include in his chattels and furnishings such an item as would prevent precipitation from any meteorological phenomenon causing harm distress or discomfort to such persons as might successfully be entreated into favouring the said incumbent with the provision of boiler servicing.
Owain
We have an internal oil boiler in the kitchen. It's not particularly modern (between 9 and 12 years old probably). We certainly can't smell it now, and I don't think we ever could (it was in the house when we moved in).
YMMV
Ask your next few visitors if they can smell it. Although sealed oil burners always seem to leak just enough to smell slightly. Perhaps there's one somewhere that doesn't but I haven't found it yet.
You seem to be on a crusade to convince people that all oil boilers smell regardless of the truth. You can take a horse to water etc............. If any of my customers with a room sealed boiler have a smell in the locality of the boiler or elsewhere they pretty soon get on the telephone. Modern boilers are designed NOT to smell and if installed correctly with no oil leaks they do not do so. Further a correctly adjusted and maintained oil boiler flue does not have an unpleasant smell anymore than a gas boiler flue. If it smells unpleasant it is not running correctly and you should get someone who knows what they are doing to sort it out..
And convince them to put oil boilers where they belong - outside or in an outhouse.
Oh come on. Some people will even put up with the smell of cigarettes and so on. How do you expect them to notice the slight smell of an oil boiler ?
It is in an outhouse and was commissioned recently. I am quite confident it is operating as intended. It doesn't smell unpleasant, only the slightest trace, but to say it doesn't smell at all would be as nonsensical as to say any other oil boiler doesn't.
Now please stop immitating IMM and accept you are wrong.
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