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Why do you think its law to have carbon monoxide detectors with these stoves but not gas apliances it just recomended with gas. Because they are much more dangerous so why people insist on doing it them selves amazes me .has the appliance been sized correctly, Does it need vents do you know...

Hi im an hetas engineer , your stove is too close to top of opening the register plate should be made from 1.5mm stainless steel and have access to inspect conection what kw stove is it as if above 5 needs ventilation the size of this depends on age of house , the construcyional hearth the bit...

The link you need is www.kevington.com you want prefabricated grp chimneys you cant get lighter than fibre glass they sell them with gas flue pipe built in and are suitable for all building regs[/url]

One other thing and yes I think this is stupid too, a pot is a terminal and is not used in the height calc , but a peice of stainless is a flue and therfore if it has the correct cross sectional area as your exsisting chimney would count , the stainless would have to be twin wall insulated

Hi I understand you confusion the 2.3 m relates to the distance from the base of the terminal (pot) to the pitch (tile slate etc) horizontally. Or 600mm above ridge .where a dormer or extention is fitted the base of the terminal (pot) mustmbe a minimum of 1 meter above the top of any opening...

When ever you enter a boiler there is an whole raft of knowlage and saftey checks that youneed, to be able to check if a gas appliance is working properly . Gas engineers are retested every 5 years to make sure they are competent to do there job .

Its illegal to remove the combustion chamber of a boiler and can lead to a 12 month prison sentence and upto£20 000 fine . Theres a lot more to it than valves and sensors if it was that easy all electrical engineers would be doing it, pat you self on your back and hope you have not done some...

Dont you just love bg.i agree will be pipes or filters bg will now be tring to break contract as there keep replacing parts till you eventually get it working method has failed. Get some one else or vailient themselves. Stop paying bg put the mone in bank and get some intrest off while waiting...

Becomming an hetas engineer is not somthing you get out of a cracker, it takes a few thousand pound and lots of training also usually another disaplin , mine looks like this cityand guilds plumbing aapprenticeship 3 years on £28.50 per week corgi gas course £2000 3 reassessment s £900 each...

Im sorry to hear of your problems , im hetas reg and do belive you should complain and also ring building regs as the minimum length for a flue sor wood or solid fuel is 4.5 meters anf yours sounds short to me so get it checked has could be dangerous.

First id check if he was gas safe before encouraging any one to play about in a boiler.

Also you can get stainless extentions with a fake brick or stone sleeve to make them look better

I am a gas safe registered engineer and currently taking hetas course , flue heights are set out in part j of building regs , chimney heights are important due to positive and negative pressure zones created when wind blows round buildings. Reducing stack hieght can lead to flue gases been...