Boiler in bathroom

bizgirl

Evening all!

I currently have a combi boiler in my bathroom that's about four years old. It's located inside a full-length airing cupboard that's made up of a wooden door, a structural wall to the left, a structural wall to the rear and a stud wall to the right. You could stand inside it if it weren't for the shelves, so it's pretty large. The cupboard is located next to the end of the bath and the bath has a fully tiled surround.

At the moment the taps and shower of the bath are at the opposite end of the bath, so quite far away from the boiler cupboard.

My question is this:

1) The boiler manual says the boiler must be installed beyond zone two. Does its current position contravene these rules, or does the fact that it's inside an enclosed cupboard mean it's ok?

2) I'm about to refurbish the bathroom and would ideally like to move the bath taps and shower-head to the opposite end of the bath, so they will be sharing the same wall as the boiler cupboard (albeit on the other side).

As mentioned above, the shared wall is a stud wall that is fully tiled on the bath side and about three inches thick. Will it contravene building regulations to have the taps and shower head on the other side of a wall that is part of the boiler cupboard?

I should also mention that there's a socket in the boiler cupboard which the boiler is plugged into. This is on the left-hand wall when you open the cupboard.

If anyone can shed any light that would be most appreciated - cheers!

Doozergirl

The cupboard is effectively a separate room. None of that is an issue.

magn8p

The regulations are in place to make sure that the users don't touch the combi with wet hands which could lead to electrocution and since you say that a wall,albeit stud wall, separates your bathroom from the boiler, I think you are okay.

Please this tradesman's blogpost for more details - https://steamshowerstore.co.uk/sss-blog/regulations-when-installing-a-boiler-in-a-bathroom/

Having said that, when you refurbish you bath, I suggest that you use moisture resistant plasterboard like http://amzn.to/2z8h6mz to make the wall that separates the bath from boiler just to make sure no water is absorbed by the shared wall.

All the best.

Alex1983

It’s in a purpose built cupboard so it will be fine, it’s classed as outside the zones and anything inside the cupboard is not deemed to be in the room.

Zone 0 is in the bath.

Zone 1 is above the bath.

Zone 2 is the area upto 0.6m that surrounds zone 1.