Boiler location

poppyroberta

Hi everyone

Finally, after 11 months of moving into the money pit house we are getting there and have found some (hopefully) good tradespeople to get this house in order.

Electrics are being done on Friday so chaos awaits. Anyway, we have had a quote for our new boiler and upgrade of complete central heating system and we are likely to go with this person.

We are having a Vaillant ecoTEC Plus 630 condensing boiler but cannot decide on it's location. At present the 20 year old boiler is in this huge cupboard in the middle of the kitchen and the hot water cylinder is in one of the bedrooms upstairs in a cupboard.

Presuming this system is going to be the best for us as it is a 5 bedroomed house which will eventually have 3 bathrooms.

I have been told to possibly have the new boiler installed upstairs in the same cupboard where the new pressurized hot water cylinder is also going to be.

We are not looking at having our kitchen done until at least next year due to costs etc so I don't want to have to have the boiler in the kitchen only to then find I want it moved.

I have never heard of a boiler being anywhere else other than the kitchen.

Would it be a mistake to have the boiler in a cupboard in the bedroom.

Any comments much appreciated. Many thanks

jimthejimjim

I have the boiler in a bedroom upstairs, i'd expect it to be noisy etc and annoy anyone staying in there but when asked people have said they never knew it was there. Space is valuable in the kitchen. Also i think you get better presure at the taps if its upstairs??? (I may be wrong there)

Hope thats of use

alanobrien

You can put a boiler just about anywhere these days. A friend with a small top floor flat moved his from the kitchen into the loft. Personally i would tend to have it close to an outside wall to minimise flue run and preferably away from bedrooms in the kitchen for safetys sake.

greyteam1959

These new boilers tend to be a bit on the noisy side so I personally would not have them anywhere near a bedroom

floyd

We are hoping to have ours relocated to an understairs cupboard provided we can meet the correct regs (BS 5376:2) for this to happen

Aliss

I have the exact same model of boiler you want in my spare room where the hot water tank was and have never had a peep out of it! Certainly nothing I've noticed anyway, and I often sleep there when I have to get up at a different time to the OH.

poppyroberta

Hi and thank you all for your replies. Much appreciated.

Still in a dilemma but may just go for having it in the cupboard in spare bedroom. The cupboard is never going to be used anywhere as the water cylinder is going to be in there anyway.

Thanks again

EliteHeat

How on earth can you have had a quote when you haven't even decided where the boiler is to go?

Woby_Tide

we had ours installed in the bathroom airing cupboard with no trouble previously, the loft is also another alternative depending on access (and a wireless control panel I guess)

misgrace

Same as me, our is in the bathroom cupboard out of the way, as I didnt want it in the kitchen.

lindabea

I installed a full central heating system when I moved into my bungalow. I decided to intall the combi boiler in the loft. Have you considered doing this?