House sold, possible boiler problem.

silvercar

flashg67 said:

'We put it in the garden for five minutes and it carried on beeping.'  - would indicate a battery or end of life beep? Check the manufacturing date - most have an 10 year life and will beep when this is reached. Our neighbour went without gas for a few days because of this!

Sounds like the detector is faulty. When I did have a confirmed CO leak, opening the door and holding the detector near the outside reduced the level enough to shut up the detector. If it is still beeping in the garden then it is faulty.

jj_43

This is other peoples safety. Buyer beware does not apply. Fix the issue and sell the property in safe condition or explain the situation to the buyer.

Yazmina

jj_43 said:

This is other peoples safety. Buyer beware does not apply. Fix the issue and sell the property in safe condition or explain the situation to the buyer.

Please read the whole thread, particularly my post of 7.33 yesterday.  Thank you.

BikingBud

You inherited? What was the previous occupation state? Are you selling immediately or has someone been living there? Any problems, issues or symptoms?

Sold STC but what have the buyers completed in terms of their own due diligence?

Gas Safety checks, EICR, full survey?

They may be willing to share costs if you broach it with them.

Yazmina

The house is unoccupied. I turned the boiler on in August when a cleaner needed hot water. No apparent problems until now. 

The main thing is that as SGN have turned the supply off, I'll need to get an engineer to turn it back on. 

martindow

Yazmina said:

The house is unoccupied. I turned the boiler on in August when a cleaner needed hot water. No apparent problems until now. 

The main thing is that as SGN have turned the supply off, I'll need to get an engineer to turn it back on. 

And have a replacement CO alarm with you.  As others have suggested it seems likely that it was a false alarm and that the boiler could well be OK.

youth_leader

I hope you can get reconnected soon, it is getting cold at night now.  I would recommend turning the heating on low, or at least the frost free setting.  

badger09

Yazmina said:

The house is unoccupied. I turned the boiler on in August when a cleaner needed hot water. No apparent problems until now. 

The main thing is that as SGN have turned the supply off, I'll need to get an engineer to turn it back on. 

Assuming the house is still insured, the insurer will almost certainly insist that the house is kept at a min temp, 12C IIRC over the winter months. 

Copstaasty1234

Section62 said:

Yazmina said:

I went round there today, and the carbon monoxide detector was going off.  The gas man turned the supply off and said that the boiler and cooker need to be checked.

Who was the "gas man"?  Someone "gas safe" should have a meter with them which can measure CO as a percentage of the atmosphere, rather than relying on a CO alarm which goes off when a set concentration is exceeded.

Did they measure the actual percentage before turning the supply off?

To clarify- the gas supplier doesn’t just do this for free for every house they go in to. They have to follow a safety procedure before deciding what the safest option is.

They’re there to make the situation safe and remove all risk of danger/death. Not to go round testing appliances etc, that’s up to the occupier to do at their own cost. It sounds like the gas engineer was exactly right in this situation. 

It also sounds like the OP is going to get it all checked over anyway so it should get resolved and then all concerned will have peace of mind.