Where to put a CH boiler?

I'd check on that one. Plenty of boilers have been installed in bathrooms.

Of course, regs might have changed.

Tim

AFAIK, boilers can go in bathrooms as long as the electrical regs are complied with.

John.

Thanks John, although the outside wall in the bathroom has a window in it and very little brickwork either side of it so maybe the bathroom isn't ideal. Do you know if I can get away with a long flue pipe in the ceiling space and the boiler in the hallway outside the bathroom?

Mike

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I think you're right but I've always thought it looks a bit s*it, hardly matching a 'luxury' description when it comes inflating the resale value.

You can certainly pass the flue over a suspended ceiling or even duct it enabling you to hide the boiler in a cupboard somewhere. I've seen this done (with a Vokera I think) with a 6m long concentric flue, very nice if it had gone through a wall but they took it through a fixed light (window) at the end of the bathroom; what a mess.

Flue lengths aren't described in regs but in boiler installation manuals, look through manufacturer data to see how long their flues can be. Then, of course, look at the cost of flue extensions, 3quid a metre for Kestons to

Depends on the boiler. There are some that can do metres and metres of flue using small diameter high-temerature PVC waste-pipe, which makes positioning very easy.

Wrong. *open flued* boilers have been banned in bathrooms since the

Owain

There is no gas fitting problem installing any room sealed boiler (modern ones always are thus) in a bathroom. There may be issues with the electrical regs, e.g. bathroom zones, RCD requirements (unhelpful).

Usually they can go in a cupboard and so comply with the regs.

As for the specifics of where to put any particular boiler you need to read the manual for your potential choice, and be familiar with flue accessory range for that model. Reference to BS 5440-1 linked below could be helpful.

"mikey" wrote

I'm wondering if building regs would allow the

Just done similar with a boiler mounted on a kitchen wall and a convoluted flue through the loft space above - approx 4.5m total. It may be necessary to increase the flue diameter depending on flue length and boiler selected. As others have said, flue extension pieces, elbows etc are silly money for some boilers - for my Worcester Bosch they were :( - about 50GBP per metre run.

Phil