potentially buying flat, with gas boiler in small bedroom..

another_casualty

Contacted British gas . They won't get involved unless I'm the landlord / owner and not leaseholder .
You would think there'd be an engineer to advise. If it cost to have the job done , then fair enough. The boiler is 7/8 years old .

Gloomendoom

Minimum distances below...

Doozergirl

DominicH wrote: »

I'm not sure I would agree with that. The concentration of, and exposure time to, CO are important, and obviously that depends on how close you are to the source, whether there are walls and doors between you and it, and how much time you spend near it. A CO source in a kitchen is less dangerous than one in a bedroom.

I'm not sure you got my point. The point is to have a decent, serviced boiler and a CO alarm. No one wants a leaking boiler at all!

Biggles

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Minimum distances below...

Interesting. The 'below a window' bit is clearly the critical bit. My boiler is in the kitchen and is right beside a window, which is never opened (though I guess it could be). But it's a balanced flue and, of the the CH engineers I've had service it over the years, none of them (however much they'd like to sell me a new one!) have ever commented on it as a problem. The most they ever do is go outside and test the emissions.

Below a window and I'm sure it would be different. And if anybody slept in the room.....

Biggles

another_casualty wrote: »

You would think there'd be an engineer to advise.

There will be. Yellow Pages will be full of local CH engineers. Phone one who's local to you, he'll probably only charge you £50 to come and take a look and advise you. BG will want you to take out a contract for 100 years.

Gloomendoom

Biggles wrote: »

Interesting. The 'below a window' bit is clearly the critical bit. My boiler is in the kitchen and is right beside a window, which is never opened (though I guess it could be). But it's a balanced flue and, of the the CH engineers I've had service it over the years, none of them (however much they'd like to sell me a new one!) have ever commented on it as a problem. The most they ever do is go outside and test the emissions.

Below a window and I'm sure it would be different. And if anybody slept in the room.....

Sorry, I didn't quote my source. Most unprofessional.

The full table, including horizontal distances, can be found here...

http://support.ambirad.co.uk/article.aspx?id=10724

Alex1983

How close to the window is it.
The boiler manufacturers instructions will tell you the required distance front the openable windows and this figure will take priority over the gas safety regs.
If it worries you that much and really like the flat can you not change the openable window to a non openable window? Problem would then be solved.

another_casualty

Biggles wrote: »

There will be. Yellow Pages will be full of local CH engineers. Phone one who's local to you, he'll probably only charge you £50 to come and take a look and advise you. BG will want you to take out a contract for 100 years.

Thanks
TBH , I did get an independent local chap,out . He says it's all good.
Cost £35 no problem in the scheme of things .
I suppose it's a bit of paranoia and also buying jitters so to speak , especially when the surveyor is so adamant it's dangerous

another_casualty

Alex1983 wrote: »

How close to the window is it.
The boiler manufacturers instructions will tell you the required distance front the openable windows and this figure will take priority over the gas safety regs.
If it worries you that much and really like the flat can you not change the openable window to a non openable window? Problem would then be solved.

Thanks
TBH , I'm 80% gonna buy it . It's just me living there and the price is good . As I don't drive , it's a good spot etc.

DominicH

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'm not sure you got my point. The point is to have a decent, serviced boiler and a CO alarm. No one wants a leaking boiler at all!

Sorry, I was going on what you typed, rather than what you apparently meant. The message you typed certainly seemed to be suggesting that it makes little difference where the boiler is located.