Next Door Neighbours new boiler

silverchoice

bris wrote: »

That's the condensate soakaway and has been installed correctly so yes it meets the building regulations.


It would normally be completely covered, did you dig it up to take the photo?

Yes just to see what it was.

silverchoice

Alex1983 wrote: »

I wouldn't be overly happy with that, it is installed correctly as long as it is at least 500mm away from your house but I don't think it's acceptable for your neighbor to think that's ok. The installer must of know they couldn't get the condense away when they quoted for the job unless it was carried out by a company that didn't visit the property to quote like boxt.

As southcoast has said where does the flue come out because that isn't allowed to terminate over your property.

The flue is over my drive.

silverchoice

southcoastrgi wrote: »

Where is the boiler flue coming out & where is your boundary ?

They’re outside wall is the boundary so the flue goes over my drive.

Aylesbury_Duck

So you have a flue trespassing over your land as well.

There was a post on here not long ago about a very similar situation where the homeowner wanted to extend their house or garage up to the party wall but the neighbour had done exactly what yours had done - installed a boiler on that wall with the flue and condensate over the homeowner's land. It meant they faced a difficult situation proceeding with their works because they were likely to have to take action to force the neighbour to relocate their boiler. Not easy because the neighbour had remodelled their own home and created a utility room into which to place the boiler.

I recommend you tackle this immediately. If you or anyone who buys your house wants to do any work in future, it poses a problem. Your neighbour needs to have their boiler relocated to a point where its plumbing doesn't trespass on your property.

Alex1983

The flue is not aloud to terminate over your boundary.

Alex1983

Tell the home owner it's not right and get there installer back, if it's not moved report it to gas safe and let them deal with it.

Aylesbury_Duck

ruhe wrote:

What would happen if the owner physically removed the pipe and placed it back over onto the neighbors boundary as in just simply removed it or had it removed? What's the legal position of this if anybody knows?

I don't know the legal position but I wouldn't do that, simply because tampering with a boiler's parts could cause all sorts of problems, some of them deadly serious.

The way to resolve this is for the OP to have a polite chat with the neighbour, point out the trespass and the consequent problems should he want to do anything to his drive or up to the boundary. It's unfortunate that it will cost the neighbour to have the boiler relocated but it's necessary. If the neighbour won't comply, OP needs to make things more formal, probably by writing to the neighbour insisting the flue and condensate are removed from his property by a certain date. Ultimately it could be legally enforced but in the interests of trying to maintain some neighbourly relationship, it's much better to resolve it amicably.

Aylesbury_Duck

Alex1983 wrote: »

Tell the home owner it's not right and get there installer back, if it's not moved report it to gas safe and let them deal with it.

Would Gas Safe be interested if it's a safe installation?

Alex1983

Gas safe will make the installer move it, one of the things gas safe are quite consistent on, it needs to be 600mm away from the boundary and even then located in a way to not cause a nuisance.

silverchoice

I have just spoken to the installer who was back at my neighbours house and I complained about him entering my property without permission and asked him about the pipe and whether it complied with building regulations. I also said I was worried about damaging the pipe by driving over it. He said he could remove the pipe and connect it to a waste pipe which is already on the same wall but he would have to check with my neighbour first.