How to hide boiler out of sight in kitchen?

ahfh1

Hi,

I will be having a new boiler installed in my kitchen, which is getting a complete refurb. I would like to keep it hidden somehow. Will it fit inside a standard cupboard carcass?

The dimensions of the boiler is:

Height 760mm
Width 440mm
Depth 350mm

I'm thinking of getting a Howdens kitchen, so do Howdens (or any other kitchen manufacturer) make anything that can keep it out of sight? Other ideas welcome!

It will be wall mounted too.

Thanks

LandyAndy

I have a wall mounted boiler in my kitchen that is simply concealed by what looks like a standard wall cabinet.

keystone

You are going about this in a back to front way. First you need to select a boiler that is suitable for mounting inside a standard carcass. That requires it to be dimensionally acceptable as well as the boiler MIs must allow you to do it. If you have a boiler which requires the caninet to be dismantled every time you need access to it thats pointless.

Design the kitchen first then select a suitable boiler to fit in with your design.

Cheers

CyCo_2

And if you are stuck with that boiler, it wont fit inside a standard wall cabinet, so you'll need to make a cabinet for it, which is easier than it sounds.

You just need to ask them for a tall end panel (they tend to be around 2100mm high and 600mm deep) which can be cut down to make two panels at 370mm deep and either 720mm or 900mm high, depending on what size fascia you want to put on it.

majjie

Is it a combi boiler - with loads of pipes and a valve underneath? It sounds as if it might be, from the dimensions.

If it's in a suitable position in the room, I often design a broom cupboard around those (making sure there's enough space and ventilation for the boiler). That way all the pipes are hidden too and you can store your vacuum cleaner and stuff underneath.

Majjie

Doozergirl

We do CyCo's tower end panel thing. Create a new unit for it with one of those and buy a separate door and handle to fit.

aliasojo

Is it somewhere that you could site a larder cupboard?

We butchered a 300mm unit and a 500mm unit to get enough space for the boiler and required clearance each side. We cut the inner side panels down so the lower part of the units is just the same, it's just the top half that's cut. (Still space for more junk though as you can see ) The end panels are fixed by a strip of pelmet screwed across the top at the front and there are wall brackets fixing the panels at the back.

margaretclare

You could have it put in the loft, as we've done.

societys_child

With two side panels, a standard 600x96mm appliance door and partially filled top and bottom to hold it together and allow ventilation, you could DIY? as suggested earlier, not too difficult.

tanith

margaretclare wrote: »

You could have it put in the loft, as we've done.

I'd love to put our boiler in the loft, but I'm guessing running the gas supply up there would be expensive and problamatic.. did it add a lot to the cost of installing the boiler Margaretclare?

ahfh1

majjie wrote: »

Is it a combi boiler - with loads of pipes and a valve underneath? It sounds as if it might be, from the dimensions.

If it's in a suitable position in the room, I often design a broom cupboard around those (making sure there's enough space and ventilation for the boiler). That way all the pipes are hidden too and you can store your vacuum cleaner and stuff underneath.

Majjie

Yes, it's a combi boiler. I like the idea that CyCo has come up with.

I'd like somthing like aliasojo's, but the cabinet won't be as high. The cabinet would just be a wall hanging unit, rather than a tall standing one.