Boiler location

poppyroberta

EliteHeat wrote: »

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

Hi there

Quote is based on the boiler going into the cupboard in bedroom. Work is not going to happen for another month as still in the middle of updating the electrics. So I had to get back to the Corgi engineer if I change my mind and decide to have the boiler downstairs in the kitchen where the old boiler is already located.

Hope that makes sense? Therefore detailed quote takes into account all the work involved in pipework etc for doing this work. Quote would obviously change if I change my mind.

vaio

It’s also a good plan to have it as close to the most used tap (normally kitchen), the theory is that if the boiler is 20 feet away from the tap and you want to swill a cup you end up with 20 feet of copper pipe full of hot water that just cools down over the next 15 mins.

never_enough

alanobrien wrote: »

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.

Does this mean it doesn't actually need to be on an outside wall?
I want to move mine from an upstairs cupboard to the utility room, but don't have much outside wall space as it has an door plus huge window.

[Sorry to hijack your thread Poppy.]

EliteHeat

Whoever has spec'd the system has done a pretty good job. The EcoTec range of boilers are extemely quiet and when they modulate down it is difficult to hear that they are actually running.

Since you have or are having an unvented hot water cylinder, these are easily capable of leeching about 20kWs of heat from the boiler since they are high recovery. Personally I would want the boiler as close the the cylinder as possible if room permits.

I have just fitted a Vaillant 937 in a bedroom (admittedly in a cupboard) and the customer was absolutely delighted. Mind you, they always are withh Vaillants.

Canucklehead

Good morning: There are a few disgruntled Vaillant Ecotec customers out there...http://www.vaillant.co.uk/Home/Products/Important_product_notice/
We also had post from Vaillant about the problem last week.

But on a positive note..at least Vaillant are addressing the problem!

HTH

Canucklehead

alanobrien

never_enough wrote: »

Does this mean it doesn't actually need to be on an outside wall?
I want to move mine from an upstairs cupboard to the utility room, but don't have much outside wall space as it has an door plus huge window.

[Sorry to hijack your thread Poppy.]

In his case he changed the venting from an outside wall to through the roof. That may be an option for you depending on location, flue availability etc.

mancitychick

I have an intergral garage, so we put our boiler in there.

jimbo_the_jetset

Out of interest more than anything.

Does anyone know the min distance away from an opening window or or a new boiler may be fitted? 300mm?? Also is there a min requirement for flue placement away from downpipes or gutters? I haven't got a copy of the BS regs so not exactly sure.

The reason I ask is that I've got a boiler in the kitchen which if it went caput (please god no!!) I would want to stick another one where it is cause all the pipework is there. But it is only ~200-250mm from a window and the flue is ~100mm from a waste water down pipe (cement, not plastic).

Canucklehead

jimbo_the_jetset wrote: »

Out of interest more than anything.

Does anyone know the min distance away from an opening window or or a new boiler may be fitted? 300mm?? Also is there a min requirement for flue placement away from downpipes or gutters? I haven't got a copy of the BS regs so not exactly sure.

The reason I ask is that I've got a boiler in the kitchen which if it went caput (please god no!!) I would want to stick another one where it is cause all the pipework is there. But it is only ~200-250mm from a window and the flue is ~100mm from a waste water down pipe (cement, not plastic).

Good afternoon: Take a look at this guide produced by the Energy Savings Trust on specification and installation of gas central heating...
http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/uploads/documents/housingbuildings/ce30.pdf
For relevant Building Regs see Part J http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_ADJ_2002.pdf
Or visit https://www.trustcorgi.com to find an installer.

HTH

Canucklehead