Electric vs Gas Boiler

freshfruitbandit

Pincher wrote: »

I have a Grade II listed apartment, with 12 ft ceiling.
The central heating is communal, with an industrial gas boiler in the basement.

There are probably 200 apartments in the building, so if they allowed a gas boiler per apartment, the flue runs required would be insane, not to mention the potential for gas leaks if any individual leaseholder uses cowboy engineers.

I thought inaccessible flue runs are banned from about two years ago, as well. It sounds like a legacy setup that may have been OK many years ago, but the owners are going to have major compliance issues soon.

I suspect you need to have a major building wide revamp.
Good luck, I had a friend, who couldn't even get the neighbours to agree to paint the stairwell.

The building was developed into flats about 12 years ago. Unfortunately we are the owners, we all bought our share in the freehold. It's a building with a total of 13 apartments so not as huge a problem as you would have if there were 100+ apartments.

macman

As above, you do not need any kind of safety certificates to sell the property, gas or electric. You only need a gas safety certificate (not electric) if you are renting it as a landlord. You simply need to declare that the CH system is working, if asked. Beyond that, any potential purchaser 'must rely on their own inspection'.
There is nothing inherently unsafe about your current install, it's just that the flue does not meet the current required standards for a new boiler install.

freshfruitbandit

It seems there could be a solution

http://www.baxi.co.uk/baxi-launches-approved-co-monitoring-shut-off-system-for-flues-in-voids.htm

freshfruitbandit

macman wrote: »

As above, you do not need any kind of safety certificates to sell the property, gas or electric. You only need a gas safety certificate (not electric) if you are renting it as a landlord. You simply need to declare that the CH system is working, if asked. Beyond that, any potential purchaser 'must rely on their own inspection'.
There is nothing inherently unsafe about your current install, it's just that the flue does not meet the current required standards for a new boiler install.

My boiler currently does not have a gas safety certificate and no one will give me one with the flue in it's current state.

You saying this is not a problem when selling the property? Surely i either need a gas safety certificate or declare it doesn't have one?