Neighbours Boiler Flue blowing steam into my house

khublaikhan

I am not a DIYer, I live in a terraced house with the wife and three kids and the not so caring neighbour has their house managed by a property rental agency. Suffice to say that over the last 15 years I have had to put up with ongoing distress of noise, drunkardness, theft, violence, littering, pit bull terriers etc from the scum this agency put in that house. They have, at times made our live miserable.

The property has been vacant for the last 3 months - since the last lot of tenants wrecked it and left. The builders have been round since last week, once again getting it ready for, no doubt, another lot of idiots to make my family's life a misery.

They have just installed a (condensing??) boiler that blows a huge amount of steam directly into my kitchen from its flue, which not more than 5 feet from my kitchen window. The flue points directly into my property. Directly above my kitchen window is my bedroom window (occupied by my 4 yr old daughter) and the steam also blows directly in there too, as well as my alley way which is adjacent to the flue.

I have asked the workmen and the letting agency to move it but, as per usual, their response is not encouraging.

Surely this is not allowed? There is so much condensation from that boiler steam stuff on my kitchen/bedroom windows that I cannot see out of them!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

bryanb

A tall fence would be one possibility. Failing that try environmental health dept at the local council. They may not be the correct dept but they will point you in the right direction.

C_Mababejive

If the boiler is installed according to the instruction manual/building regs then legally,you might be stuffed. As others have said,it might be possible to block the plume using a fence panel/lattice.

Many noilers have what is called a plume management kit as an additional extra which can be used to redirect the condensate plume.

I know what you mean about buy to let blight. It is the scourge of the nation..blighting the lives of ordinary hard working people buy allowing scum to live beside them free of charge.

bryanb

C_Mababejive wrote: »

If the boiler is installed according to the instruction manual/building regs then legally,you might be stuffed.

I think it very unlikely that this would be the case, regs like this do not give carte blanche to project a jet of steam onto a neighbour's property.

khublaikhan

Thanks for the quick replies,

A fence is out of the question as their kitchen is part of an extension and the flue overhangs the alleyway. As I look out of my kitchen window the flue is on the right, at 90 degree to my window, directly above and overhanging the path out of the alleyway.

Sorry if this is confusing not sure how to explain it better.

C_Mababejive

Any possibility of a picture via photobucket or similar?

The instruction manuals for installation of the boiler would be such that the installtion would conform to BSI 5440

http://shop.bsigroup.com/en/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030086635

also see
http://www.idealboilers.com/what_is_pluming.html

khublaikhan

I will put up some pics shortly - never used photobucket but will give it a go.

khublaikhan

I hope this works:

http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af49/khublaikhan/KK%20Neihbours%20Flue/KK3.jpg

http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af49/khublaikhan/KK%20Neihbours%20Flue/KK2.jpg

http://i992.photobucket.com/albums/af49/khublaikhan/KK%20Neihbours%20Flue/KK1.jpg

When I walk out of my door the fumes hit my face. I will put up a pic of it when it is running

ormus

whos alleyway is that?

khublaikhan

Its shared between us

daveyjp

Do the neighbours have any rights over the alleyway?

Knowing this is important.