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1CANHELP - you seem to have lept to the conclusion that I am ignoring your advice. FYI I am not a DIY merchant out to save a few quid, nor an idiot, my installer is OFTEC registered and has so far not been condescending nor abusive. I posted the question in this forum to try and understand the...

Thanks Tony, that makes sense of the regulation.

Unfortunately not. There is only a sliver of ceiling space above the utility room. The dotted lines show the internal walls (sorry for the crappy sketch). The room to the right is a ground floor bedroom and has a vaulted ceiling so no loft space. A possible solution we are considering is...

This is what I want to do. We can't come vertically up through the roof and terminate because we are too close to the vertical wall but our boiler installer is of the opinion that it's not juts the outlet from the flue but the pipe itself that has to be 750mm away from the vertical wall but I...

what I really need to know is whether all of the flue pipe has to be 750mm away or just the outlet. If you imagine a wall with a pitched roof running down it and the flue existing the pitched roof say 300mm from the wall. Could the pipe then bend say 45 degrees and extend 600mm upwards (minimum...

Actually looking at Table to Diagram 41 again it does say "From a vertical structure to the side of the terminal - 750mm" so this probably does mean the flue pipe and not just the outlet :(

Due to lack of foresight and knowledge of the regulations we are having an extremely difficult time trying to find a suitable location for a new oil boiler in our extension. Despite it being a substantial construction it seems that the regulations governing flue distance from window, doors walls...