We would if there was a big metal ring left stuck to the wall. I suppose you could resort to keyhole surgery, walloping it with a crowbar through the hole or something.
Advice for new boiler in 3rd floor flat - scaffolding really needed?
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We had our boiler replaced c. 18 months ago and the chap spent a lot longer than 5 minutes on the scaffold. The new boiler had a different layout and the flue for the new one was some distance away. So as well as drilling the hole and fitting the new flue he removed the old one and sealed the hole.
NB He would have done the work from a ladder but there is something in the way and a ladder could not be placed in safe location.
How many floors up are you?
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At the moment I on the ground floor, in a moment I will go up to the first floor of my house. Later on I will go into the attic.
The boiler is on the wall of the first floor. Why do you ask?
Because that's achievable on a ladder!
The thread is about a 3rd Floor flat. So things are very different.
The thread is about a 3rd Floor flat. So things are very different.
Unless you're doing it yourself, you really are bound by whatever your local installers will do. I would have thought that it could be done, assuming like for like, with access reaching out of the window. But then I am not a boiler installer 
@Ivor Windybottom
If you had actually read what I wrote, and what it was in reply to, you would have seen that I made no comment whatsoever about the height of the work.
What I clearly was pointing out was that you said that it will be only five minutes work and that it may well be quite a bit longer than that.
If you had actually read what I wrote, and what it was in reply to, you would have seen that I made no comment whatsoever about the height of the work.
What I clearly was pointing out was that you said that it will be only five minutes work and that it may well be quite a bit longer than that.
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