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He told me to replace literally everything, including the 'works fine' boiler, which is why I sought more opinions. I've never used this engineer before as it is a new area, so I don't have a trusted guy to work with (yet).

Which is exactly why I got it safety tested in the first place ;)

Really? So was it valid for the engineer to whack a big red sticker on the side of the boiler saying it was dangerous and shouldn't be used? I'm not au fait on Gas regulations so I'm a bit in the dark on this...

Thats probably because I misspelt in the main post, it should say 300mm :shock:

As requested The more work I do on this house the more my catalogue of DIY Bodge Job/Hall of Shame increases in size with evidence of the previous owners misdemeanour's - I'll save that for a different thread though :D

I have recently had an Alpha HE25 safety checked, and the engineer informed me that whilst the boiler itself was perfectly fine, the flue had been installed within 300mm of the top left corner of the kitchen window, and so it had failed, and suggested that even though he couldn't force me to not...