Potential Property in Consideration for Purchase - Boiler in Master Bedroom

Greymug

I wouldn't want a boiler in a bedroom either, let alone the master bedroom.

swingaloo2

My boiler is in our bedroom and there are no issues at all. It is bulit into a cupboard and not on show. 
The only reservation I would have is how accessible it will be for maintenance. I had mine serviced only last week and was apologising to the Baxi engineer because he had to kneel down in the cupboard. He told me that mine was 'not bad at all' compared to some that he had to go to. He then went on to say 'If we cant access the boiler easily enough we dont touch it.' I asked what would happen if it needed a repair and he said that collectively they had decided that if they needed to for example, lie on thier back to get at it they would refuse. He said 'Why should we have to risk our backs trying to get at something that has been badly installed so we wont touch them now'.  May be worth bearing in mind if you go ahaed with the house however I would definately not be put off by it being in a bedroom.

davidmcn

gingercordial said:

AC20 said:

sheramber said:

Have you identified another suitable place that the boiler could go?    
Is there room in the kitchen?

There is. behind the stairs.
Only challenge is knowing whether it is feasible to move it in first place since the place in kitchen is on opposite wall to where it is installed right now.

As far as I know boilers have to go on an external wall if being installed or moved.  

Flues can go up and through the roof, if that helps any.

pbartlett

Any boiler - indeed anything - has the chance to fail. The question is, do you want to risk it happening in your bedroom whilst fast asleep?

On a terrace house it would need repositioning so that the flu can exit on the back wall.

davidmcn

moneysavinghero said:

No need to have the boiler going when you are tucked up in bed so no noise issues.

There is if you want the house warmed up before you get up (or if somebody else in the house is awake at different times from you). But needn't be all that noisy if it's in a cupboard.

moneysavinghero

davidmcn said:

moneysavinghero said:

No need to have the boiler going when you are tucked up in bed so no noise issues.

There is if you want the house warmed up before you get up (or if somebody else in the house is awake at different times from you). But needn't be all that noisy if it's in a cupboard.

Saves money on an alarm clock.

Murphybear

I slept in a bedroom with a boiler for a few years.  There weren’t t any problems.  It wasn’t very noisy and we had a CO alarm near it.  

Jeepers_Creepers

AC20, the boiler location will put a lot of people off - you only have to read these posts to see why.

It's a hang over from the ol' days of room-vented boilers which, if they became faulty, could release CO to the room. As pointed out above, modern boilers are 'room-sealed' - quite literally they have nothing to do with the air in the room.

Having said that, it is still possible for something to go wrong, and this would usually be with a fault or leak in the flue. You mitigate against this extremely small risk by placing a CO alarm inside the cupboard along with the boiler.

The room I am typing in is the old attached garage. This is now a general purpose room, and a bedroom when folks visit. It is inside a purpose-made cupboard, and I have a CO alarm mounted on the inside of the cupboard door. ('Funnily' enough, a couple of years back I found a small, white, crumbly, screw cap on the floor of the cupboard which caused some head-scratching. It took months before I realised it was the flue gas test point cap. For many months there was a tiny hole open to the flue gases - but the CO was so low the alarm didn't register it (it has a digital readout). Still gave me a start, tho'...)

Bottom line, the risk is minimal, but it's your call whether you are prepared to take it at all. It tends to be an emotive subject.

Where can the boiler go? Anywhere. But some locations will be very awkward and therefore costly. As asked before, can you provide a plan?

If you want it completely out of the way, can you stick it in the loft?

Soot2006

moneysavinghero said:

Saves money on an alarm clock.

Joking aside, I am a super light sleeper, and I quite like waking up every morning to the gentle hmmm of the boiler that is nowhere near my bedroom kicking in, an hour before my alarm goes ...

I can understand not wanting the boiler in the bedroom, but the question is why was it put there?  Perhaps share the floorplans of the house, and we might be able to help.    My "new" (old but purchased in 2019) house had a boiler in the kitchen, which is more common, but ate into the available storage space (small kitchen), so we moved it up into the loft. When we were viewing houses, we saw some spectacular boiler installations in crawl spaces, etc, all very fancy new boilers up to spec and BR ... I would say almost everything is possible. Make sure that whoever installs it will also service it as that sorts out access discussions ...

parcival

Modern boilers are safe and quiet.  Chances are the heating and boiler will not be on when you go to bed. The only thing is that in the winter you will probably want the heating to come on an hour or so before you get up. You might then be aware of a low kind of humming noise that all boilers make. However if in a cupboard you might not even be aware of it.