Recent content by Aichar

Thanks, cantaloup63. My wife and I had just about reached that conclusion ourselves, though it is hard to stand by and see people making such costly (and possibly dangerous) mistakes.

No - NOT our idea - it really has happened, but to friends. Currently, they have NO access to the boiler. The inside is bricked up, the outside has an immovable cover through which pipes are running - and the inside of that wall is a jumble gas and water pipes from and to the (now...

Thanks to all for the posts. Can anyone quote me specific gas safety regulations that this installation is likely to contravene? Nay indeed, vicvapour! (vicvapour? aye, there's the rub!)

Friends have a gas central heating boiler installed in a cupboard adjacent to an outside wall. The flue and air inlet are of the balanced-flue type. The boiler is fixed to the inside face of the outside wall. As the room is being re-modelled, they have decided to brick up the cupboard on the...