Laandlord gas safety certificate being withheld due to flue location

Elsomato

Hi all,
We have been renting out our old house for 10yrs now, and have had a gas safety certificate signed off each year. This year however, the engineer said that the boiler flue doesn't comply with the regulations - not because it's unsafe but because it's in a terraced house and exits the property through the wall into the neighbour's garden, before venting back over our roof. It has been that way since we bought the house (2002) and has never been a problem before. I don't want to spend lots of money moving the flue if it's not 100% necessary - has anyone else had this? 

WIAWSNB

Almost certainly a pedant.

Get another GS.

Who did you use last year? And the year before that? And before that?

Call them up. 

Eldi_Dos

Hopefully a Boiler Flue Extension Kit will be available for to correct this.

If you could post up a diagram with measurements, distance from windows doors and description of flue shape, or a photo or two, some one with the right experience will be able to advise.

casper_gutman

Sounds to me like it already has an extension kit, as that's the only way I can picture for it to exit into the neighbours garden before venting over the OP's roof.

It's not the way I'd want my flue arranged as it sounds as if it's trespassing on the neighbour's property which could cause problems if they (or new occupants next door) decide they have a problem with it. That's not necessarily a gas safety issue though - unless the engineer is worried that a future neighbour might tamper with the flue or something?
 

TELLIT01

New regulations can be applied to existing installations.  At least they were for us some years ago when the gas engineer came to service our old back boiler.  He told me that it no longer complied with regs and would have to be replaced.  We did replace it and, to be fair, the new boiler was far more efficient - and still is.