Boiler location

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Yes. And I'd guess you and yours are careful enough to use the toilet rather than the floor.

[IMM]

....mmmm, but four people mysteriously died.

[Markus Splenius]

Now if I could keep an au pair in a small insulated brick cupboard, I would get one tomorrow!! :-)

M.

[Brian Sharrock]

Or, in a 1930's style house it's called the (former) "outside toilet". My boiler sits within the 'outside toilet', It is built out from the rear of the house, Kitchen on other side of wall. Heat off the casing nicely heats the tools that I store there too.

[manatbandq]

So that's what the smell is!

[Christian McArdle]

The difference is that the tiles, lino, or whatever can be regularly cleaned and don't form a cosy warm damp substrate for the germs to fester.

Christian.

[Mark]

Our boiler (and washing machine/dryer) are going in the garage.

Mark

[Markus Splenius]

Hmm, I wonder how I would do that with my house since my garage is 1/3 of the way down the garden. There are already overhead cables from the house to the garage to feed the lights and the "strimmer socket". Could I have overhead pipes too to feed my first floor radiators and bathroom?! :-))))

[Andy Hall]

Erich Honnecker did that in the former DDR.

In East Berlin they had a ridiculous system of blue and red pipes snaking around the streets on gantries and hooked up to central heat stations. One small problem. It never worked because the pipes weren't insulated properly and all the heat was lost over quite short distances.

There's no reason in principle not to have a boiler remote from the place being heated as long as you do insulate the pipes. I've done this to provide heat to my workshop quite successfully using an underground duct and well insulated pipes running through it with heat provided via a heat exchanger from the main house system.

[Mike]

Are you sure it would be the au pair in the cupboard :-)

[Mike]

Agree this is best place for the boiler. But do use 28mm or even larger pipe and insulate it to death.

[Mark]

28mm pipe! I think that might be over the top in my case since the garage is attached to the house :-)

I agree about the insulation though.

Mark

[Googolplex]

It's unusual to see a washing machine in an Australian kitchen too, though sometimes they are in a utility room nearby. But it's often the case that there's a combined bathroom/utility room somewhere containing bog/shower/bath/sink/washing machine/utility sink/tumble dryer.

And their utility sinks have a large hole in the top of the metal to

a) accept the hose from the washing machine b) act as an overflow

as it feeds back to the waste trap.

[Googolplex]

The pipes are still there...

[Mike]

Unfortunately I didn't think 28mm pipe was needed either as the calculations on the Copper Development Association website showed 22mm was okay, albeit marginally. Unfortunately once installed it was quite obviously not okay and had to be replaced with 28mm. As you have short runs you may find 28mm helps the pump and system run quieter so may be worth the investment anyway.