Boiler in Bedroom

teddysmum

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Would the boiler be running at night whilst your asleep anyway?

Yes, possibly with a combi. See my post above about pre-heating water.

dj1471

teddysmum wrote: »

Yes, possibly with a combi. See my post above about pre-heating water.

You can turn that feature off, at least on my Worcester (the green eco button).

daveyjp

pureimagination wrote: »

Are Valiant boilers noisy? I understood they had the "quiet mark" accreditation, so were probably more silent than others.

As silent is an absolute meaning no noise you can't have levels of it.

Quiet mark just means it meets a certain noise level and will be quieter than a boiler which makes more noise!

In a very quiet room a ticking clock can disturb you, a firing Vaillant is noisier than a clock.

Hasbeen

pureimagination wrote: »

Hello,

I wonder if someone could give me an opinion on whether installing a boiler in my bedroom is a total no-no?

The flat I've just bought has a 1970s boiler which needs replacing. The problem is that the existing flue doesn't meet current regulations, because it's jammed between an iron drainpipe and a windowsill.

I trust my plumber, and he's given me two options. The first option is to move the boiler back into an internal hall cupboard, but this would demand a more expensive flue (£700!) and the pipes would still have to be fed through a corner of my bedroom ceiling to reach the back wall.

Or I could put the boiler into an internal bedroom cupboard. This option is £700 cheaper and there's no weird piping, but I know a lot of people have a problem with boilers in bedrooms.

What do you think? £700 is a lot of money to me, but I don't want to devalue the property by installing the boiler into a location which future buyers would hate. I'm assured that the new boiler will be very quiet. It's a Vaillant Ecotec Plus 832 combi boiler.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Had two houses with boiler in bedroom cupboard, had last one refitted there when removed from kitchen wall to enhance kitchen.

Had no problems as they were very quiet and being in cupboard helped I think.

HappyMJ

I still don't like the idea of a boiler in the bedroom. Yes you've got your CO alarms but what if they are faulty. Fully room sealed boiler's themselves rarely leak CO into the room. They do have a failure rate but then so do CO alarms. No device can be guaranteed to be 100% perfect at all times otherwise there'd be no need for the CO detector as the boiler would also be 100% safe.

Anyway for the CO alarm to trigger there has to be CO in the room and if you're sleeping with that are you able to wake up when the alarm triggers.

Kitchen, garage or outbuilding. Maybe airing cupboard in a hallway outside of a bedroom. Never "in" the bedroom. If an agent presented a property to me with a boiler in the bedroom it's off my list.

Biggles

HappyMJ wrote: »

I still don't like the idea of a boiler in the bedroom. Yes you've got your CO alarms but what if they are faulty. Fully room sealed boiler's themselves rarely leak CO into the room. They do have a failure rate but then so do CO alarms. No device can be guaranteed to be 100% perfect at all times otherwise there'd be no need for the CO detector as the boiler would also be 100% safe.

Anyway for the CO alarm to trigger there has to be CO in the room and if you're sleeping with that are you able to wake up when the alarm triggers.

My thoughts exactly. It's an absolute no-no as far as I'm concerned; it's not how likely is it that something could go wrong, it's how dire the consequences could be if it did!

boliston

I guess a studio apartment would by definition have a boiler "in the bedroom" so there must be quite a lot of people in this situation. I have a combi and the "pre-heat" function is the work of the devil! Luckily I worked out how to disable it as my combi is in my living room.

no1catman

When I moved in - the boiler was in the kitchen above the gas cooker!! The guy I had in to install the cooker (he had done C/H in the previous house), immediately exclaimed that's against reg's!
I could see that his comment was sensible - seemed crazy to have it there, cursed myself for not noticing before.
The logical place to put it was in the bedroom - in a cupboard - where the hot water tank used to be.
?Noisy, no not generally, apart from sometimes when it first goes on - but then it's not set to go on when I'm asleep. So, really don't see a problem - and yes there's a carbon monoxide alarm nearby - provided free by Age Cymru.

C_Mababejive

dj1471 wrote: »

You can turn that feature off, at least on my Worcester (the green eco button).

I would certainly recommend turning pre heat off to save a small fortune.

HappyMJ

C_Mababejive wrote: »

I would certainly recommend turning pre heat off to save a small fortune.

Especially if you don't have to pay for water on a meter or you have an alternative use for several litres of cold water....such as watering indoor plants.