Neighbours Boiler Flue blowing steam into my house

CrashUK

thats gas coming out of the side of his house is Carbon monoxide mix with a bit of water. Close your up stair windows as that could kill you in the night when your a sleep. People on hoilday have died in they sleep as they room windows has been close to a boiler venting out lots of nice carbon monoxide.

Rachel83

Might be worth while getting a carbon monoxide detector in the bedroom above it too, better safe than sorry

rockin_plumber

khublaikhan wrote: »

Although there is a question mark as to its placement in accordance with regulations - I think its the best I could hope for?

I have made an appointment with someone from the council next week - I will see what they say when they see the pics.

You may have a point depending on where your boundry is in relation to the flue, depending on where your upstairs bedroom wall is in relation to the flue termination.

It should be 300mm away fron the boundry.
But.. as it is pointing away from the building you may not notice it being such a problem anyway.


But the safety valve pipework could still be cause for concern where it is terminating as if anything goes wrong with the system a blast of steam or very hot water will come out from the coper pipe.

Canucklehead

CrashUK wrote: »

thats gas coming out of the side of his house is Carbon monoxide mix with a bit of water. Close your up stair windows as that could kill you in the night when your a sleep. People on hoilday have died in they sleep as they room windows has been close to a boiler venting out lots of nice carbon monoxide.

Hi,


What about gas hobs and ovens?
CO is the result of incomplete combustion and there is very little in flue gas.
All those flues out there that are the same or worse than the OP's go unnoticed as they are not condensing.

I would have tried to get the plume kit to get to gutter level if the manufacturers instructions allow that length.

Don't know why the condensate doesn't run into what seems to be a basin waste internally.
PRV would be best run into gully or close to ground level.




GSR.

gas4you

Technically a plume management kit should not be used to make an illegal flue termination legal, as in your case. They are to direct the plume away on a legal flue installation, where it would otherwise cause a nuisance.

Also, to the letter of the law, if below 2.0m the original terminal should still have a terminal guard over it, to stop anyone poking things in the air intake side of the flue.

I personally don't agree with this and have had many arguments with the high ups that control our gas industry at various committee and safety meetings I attend around the country, but those are the regs.

C_Mababejive

CrashUK wrote: »

thats gas coming out of the side of his house is Carbon monoxide mix with a bit of water. Close your up stair windows as that could kill you in the night when your a sleep. People on hoilday have died in they sleep as they room windows has been close to a boiler venting out lots of nice carbon monoxide.

Pish and Tosh

CH4 + 2O2= 2H2O+CO2

Mojisola

It would be a good idea to get some pictures of the vent when it has steam coming out to show how much of a nuisance it is. It can't be nice to be using that alley when it's coming out!

Micky

Won't the plume now blow across the 1st floor window? Perhaps the OP can mark on one of the photos the property boundary line.

arfurrrr

gas4you wrote: »

A flue should not discharge over a boundary. Gas regs state 600mm minimum to a facing boundary and building regs state 2.5 M.

As said a vertical flue would have been one option, another would have been a plume management kit, fitted to the flue and then upwards and back over their property.

Contact Gas Safe and ask for a free inspection. They will state exactly what it should have been installed like, in writing

Ditto , GAS SAFE INSPECTION