new combi boiler location question

mutley74

Need some advice on a central heating fit? We are having the central heating in the house completely redone due to a ageing system (well a new combi boiler and radiator valves). The boiler is currently in the hallway in an internal cupboard.

It has been recommended by the firm who will install a new boiler that it is fitted upstairs in the bathroom internal cupboard. This is because there is no suitable position identified on the ground floor that is near an external wall, apart from the garage or kitchen. But then this will mean a bigger scale job to redo all the piping runs etc. The new flue stack will go through the attic and exit via the roof.

Anyway if a boiler is fitted to an existing internal cupboard in a bathroom is there any requirement that the cupboard needs any fire proof or heat proof boarding?

When I asked the plumber he said no, but I just wanted to check this.

NewMat

We've just had a new boiler installed in our bathroom. There's no cupboard around it yet, but that will happen soon as part of the bathroom revamp. We spoke to a number of CORGI fitters when getting a quote and all were happy with the boiler simply going in a normal cupboard, which would seem to confirm what you were told. The only thing to bear in mind is that it is normally recommended that boilers in a cupboard require a specified distance all the way around when inside a cupboard (ours is a Worcester and there's a little diagram in the manual showing this), so if it is going to go inside an existing cupboard you need to check that it is big enough. If your new boiler is going to be anything like our Worcester then it is going to need to be a big cupboard!