gas reg prob

[COG]

I cant find the corect reg that states you cant put an open flued boiler in a bathroom,doing my head in, anyone remember the section its in ?

 

[ChrisR]

GSIUR Rule 30

All online at http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1998/19982451.htm#end


Room-sealed appliances
30. - (1) No person shall install a gas appliance in a room used or intended to be used as a bathroom or a shower room unless it is a room-sealed appliance.
(2) No person shall install a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of more than 14 kilowatt gross heat input in a room used or intended to be used as sleeping accommodation unless the appliance is a room-sealed appliance.

(3) No person shall install a gas fire, other gas space heater or a gas water heater of 14 kilowatt gross heat input or less in a room used or intended to be used as sleeping accommodation and no person shall install an instantaneous water heater unless (in each case) -
(a) it is a room-sealed appliance; or

(b) it incorporates a safety control designed to shut down the appliance before there is a build up of a dangerous quantity of the products of combustion in the room concerned.
(4) The references in paragraphs (1) to (3) to a room used or intended to be used for the purpose therein referred to includes a reference to -
(a) a cupboard or compartment within such a room; or

(b) a cupboard, compartment or space adjacent to such a room if there is an air vent from the cupboard, compartment or space into such a room

 

[COG]

Thanks Chris thats spot on. The trouble with gas regs is they tend to tell you what you can do as against to what you cant. Thanks again.Cog